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VIRGINIA   MAGAZINE 


HISTORY    AND   BIOGRAPHY. 


Published  Quarterly  by 

THE  VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY, 

FOR 

THE  YEAR  ENDING  JUNE,  1900. 
VOLUN4E    VII. 


Richmond,  Va: 

HOUSE  OF  THE  SOCIETY, 

No.  707  East  Franklin  St. 


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PUB  Lie  A  TION  COMMITTEE. 

ARCHER  ANDERSON, 

C.  V.  MEREDITH, 

E.  V.  VALENTINE. 

E.  W.  JAMES, 

Rev.  W.  MEADE  CLARK. 


Editor  of  the  Magazine. 
WILLIAM  G.  STANARD. 


WM.   El. LIS  JONES,   PRINTER, 
RICHMOND.   VA. 

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Table  of  Contents. 


Augusta  County,  An  additional  chapter  to  Waddell's  History  of io6 

Augusta  County,  Marriage  Licenses  in,  1749-1773  421 

Ball  Family,  A  Forgotten  Member  of  the 440 

Book  Reviews 105,  218,  333,  445 

Carter  Papers,  Inventory  of  Hon.  Robt.  Carter 64 

Famham  Parish  Register,  Richmond  County,  Virginia,  Extracts 
from 52 

Genealogy— Foote,  73.  201;  Pryor,  75.  206,  325;  Payne,  79,  200; 
Rodes,  82,  203,  324;  Withers,  87;  Yates,  91,  330,  436;  Booker, 
95.  209,  322,  429;  Coles,  loi,  326,  428;  Fitzhugh,  196,  317,  425; 
Farrar,  319,  432;  Eskridge,  434;  Bassett-Stith,  437;  Poythress,  438 

Hampden-Sidney  College,  Trustees  of 30 

Indians  of  Southern  Virginia  in  1650-171 1 327 

Jones,  John  Paul,  as  a  Citizen  of  Virginia 286 

Land  Patents,  Abstracts  of  Virginia 69,  190,  296,  423 

Lewis,  Charles,  Will  of,  1779 294 

Mackie,  Will  of  Josias 358 

Martin,  Capt.  John,  The  Case  of 268 

Nicholson,  Governor,  Papers  Relating  to  the  Administration  of,  and 

to  the  Founding  of  William  and  Mary  College 153,  275,  386 

Notes  and  Queries 103.  210,  303,  441 

Plate,  A  Service  of,  1794 186 

Publications  Received 223,  335 


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Richmond  During  the  War  of   1812;  The  Vigilance  Committee; 

Letters  o!  Dr.  Thos.  Massie 225,  406 

Robinson,  Christopher,  Will  of,  1693 17 

Sainsbury's  Abstracts.     By  Alexander  Brown 187 

Vigilance  Committee,  The;  Richmond  During  the  War  of  181 2,  225,  406 

Virginia   Historical  Society — Proceedings,   i-ix,  January  number; 
List  of  Officers  and  Members,  January  number. 

Virginia  Census,  1624-25 364 

Virginia,  The  New  Government  for,  i62| 38 

Virginia  in  1624-25 129 

Virginia  in  1628 258 

Virginia  in  1629-30 368 

Virginia  Game  and  Field  Sports,  1739 *72 

Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revolution 24,  146,  254,  418 

Washington,  Letters  of 175 

Yeardley,  Sir  George,  Answer  to  Capt.  Martin 136 


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VIRGINIA  MAGAZINE 

OF 

HISTORY  AND.  BIOGRAPHY. 


PUBLISHED  QUARTERLY  BY  THE 


VIRGINIA  HISTORICAL    SOCIETY, 


RICHMOND,  VA. 


VOL.  VII— No.  1.        JULY.  1809. 


Entered  at  the  Postofficc  at  Richmond,  Va.,  as  Second-class  Matter. 

WM.  ELLIS  JONES.  PRINTER,    Digitized  by  CjOOglC 


5  South  i2TH  Stkj'-et. 


PUBLICATION  COMMITTEE. 


ARCHER  ANDERSON,        CHAS.  V.  MEREDITH, 
E.  W.  JAMES,  E.  V.  VALENTINE, 

Rev.  W.  MEADE  CLARK. 


EDITOR  OF  THE   MAGAZINE, 

WILLIAM  G.  STANARD. 


CONTENTS. 

1.  Reminiscenses  of  Western  Virginia 1 

2.  Will  of  Christopher  Robinson,  1693 17 

3.  Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revolution 24 

4.  Trustees  of  Hampden-Sidney  College 30 

5.  The  New  Government  for  Virginia,  1624 38 

6.  Extracts  from  the  Register  of  Famham  Parish, 

Richmond  County,  Va....'. 52 

7.  Carter  Papers 64 

8.  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents 69 

9.  Genealogy 73 

The  Foote,  Pryor,  Payne,  Rodes,  Withers,  Yates,  Booker 
and  Cole  Families. 

10.  Notes  and  Queries 103 

11.  Book  Reviews 105 


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Vol.  VII.  JULY,  1899.  No.  i. 


REMINISCENCES  OF  WESTERN  VIRGINIA, 
I 770- I 790. 


By  John  Redd,  Henry  county,  Va. 


(continued.) 
26th.  I  do  not  reckollect  who  I  obtained  the  information  from 
respecting  the  captivity  of  Colonel  Callaway  &  Boon's  daughters ' 
in  Kentucky  in  July,  1776,  but  I  am  satisfied  that  I  obtained  the 
information  from  reliable  authority,  for  shortly  after  the  affair 
happened  it  was  noised  about  on  the  frontier  settlement  and  all 
the  settlers  were  extolling  Boon  to  the  vary  skies  for  the  prowess 
&  bravery  which  he  displayed  in  recapturing  the  girls,  at  the 
time  the  girls  were  captured  by  the  Indians  Boon  was  out  a  hunt- 
ing, shortly  he  left  the  girls,  went  out  alone  to  take  a  short  walk 
and  while  in  the  woods  they  were  supprised  by  a  party  of  In- 
dians, captured  and  carried  off,  the  girls  believed  that  they  would 
be  followed  by  their  friends,  and  in  order  that  they  might  be 
traced  the  more  easily  at  vary  short  intervals  they  brake  the 
twig,  on  the  bushes.  In  order  to  prevent  the  breaking  of  the 
twigs  exciting  the  suspicion  of  the  Indians  they  complained  of 
being  fatigued  &  generally  walked  behind.  Boon  returned 
home  in  the  evening  and  with  two  or  three  companions  started 
in  pursuit  early  next  morning,  from  the  trail  of  the  Indians  Sc 
the  sine  that  the  girls  left  he  found  but  little  difficulty  in  follow- 


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ing.  the  seckond  day  just  before  night,  Boon  arrived  in  sight 
of  the  smoke  assending  from  the  fire  where  the  Indians  had  taken 
up  camp,  he  vary  cautiously  creeped  up  within  gun  shot  of  the 
camp  without  being  seen  by  Indians,  they  were  busy  cooking, 
the  girls  were  laying  down.  Boon  and  his  men  fired  on  the  In- 
dians at  the  same  time  and  rushed  on  to  the  camp  hooping  and 
hallowing,  the  Indians  were  so  much  frightened  that  they  imme- 
diately fled,  leaving  one  or  two  killed,  their  guns  &  everything 
else  were  left  at  the  camp. 

27th.  I  have  frequently  heard  of  Price's  settlement  but  know 
not  where  it  was  made  or  by  whome. 

28th.  James  Robertson'  had  command  of  a  company  in 
Christian's  campane  and  he  was  from  the  watauga  Settiement. 
Seviers  company  were  composed  of  about  80  men  besides  the 
officers.     Robinson's  company  had  about  the  same  number. 

29th.  The  fort  built  on  the  holston  in  1776,  was  built  on  the 
North  bank  about  200  yards  below  the  upper  end  of  the  Island, 
the  place  selected  for  the  fort  was  where  the  bank  of  the  river 
was  vary  high,  I  suppose  some  20  feet,  the  water  some  four  or  five 
feet  deep,  the  ground  enclosed  by  the  fort  was  about  100  yard 
square;  there  was  onely  three  sides  enclosed,  the  bank  of  the 
river  being  almost  impregnable.  This  fort  was  built  simaler  to 
that  bilt  by  Joseph  Martain'  in  Powel's  valley,  with  the  excep- 
tion that  the  wals  had  bastions  at  each  corner,  the  house  for 
the  Millitary  storse  was  in  the  senter  of  the  square  and  also  the 
storse  was  in  the  senter  of  the  square,  and  also  the  house  for  the 
commander,  there  were  several  small  springs  that  broke  out  of 
the  bank  of  the  river  which  was  used,  but  the  river  was  our  main 
dependance  for  water.  Colonel  Wm.  Witcher*  had  command 
of  the  fort  with  about  200  men  dureing  the  absence  of  the  army. 

30th.  Anthony  Bledsoe  *  was  not  connected  with  the  army 
until  Dec,  1776,  at  which  time  he  took  temporary  command 
during  Colonel  Christian's  absence  and  remained  in  command 
until  the  first  of  April,  1777.  At  the  time  that  Col.  Bledsoe  was 
elected  to  the  legislature  he  lived  about  30  miles  above  the  long 
Islans  of  holston  and  on  the  fort  Chisel  road.  I  know  of  no 
other  military  service  of  Anthony  Bledsoe. 

31st.  I  think  that  Maj.  Evan  Shelby  •  had  command  at  the 
fort  some  two  weeks  during  the  temporary  absence  of  Wm.  Rus- 


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sel.  this  was  the  onely  connection  he  had  with  the  army.  I 
know  nothing  of  Dysart,'  George  Maxwell,®  John  Anderson,* 
nor  Wm.  Buchanan.** 

32.  When  Nathaniel  Gist "  first  came  in  to  Christian  he  was 
viewed  in  a  vary  suspisious  light,  he  was  believed  to  be  a  spye, 
but  the  prejudice  against  him  soon  wore  off  and  Gist  became 
vary  popular.  I  know  not  what  he  had  been  doing  with  the 
Indians  nor  where  his  residence  was. 

33th.  Rycove  fort  was  about  8  miles  from  the  north  fork  of 
the  Clinch,  situated  about  a  mile  from  the  stream  on  its  west  side, 
there  were  several  fine  springs  at  the  fort.  It  inclosed,  about 
half  acre  of  land.  I  don*t  know  whether  it  was  occupied  during 
the  Revolution. 

34th.  I  know  nothing  of  the  services  of  Col.  John  Bowman." 
35th.  I  know  nothing  of  Col.  David  Robinson. 
36th.  I  have  no  knowledge  of  Major  Daniel  Smith." 
37th.  the  circumstances  under  which  Big  Bullet  was  killed  at 
the  long  island  treaty  were  these.  In  June,  1777,  while  the 
army  was  at  the  Long  Island  and  some  600  Indians  had  come  in 
for  the  purpose  of  making  peace,  many  of  the  officers  were  anx- 
ious to  see  the  Indians  have  a  green  corn  dance  and  by  way  of 
inducement,  told  the  Indians  that  if  they  would  have  a  green 
com  dance,  that  they,  the  whites,  would  give  them  a  dance  after 
the  Indians  were  done,  accordingly  a  large  place  wa^  cleared  out 
on  the  Island  (where  the  Indians  were  encamped  oposite  the 
forte),  some  200  Indians  were  engaged  in  the  dance,  which 
lasted  some  three  hours,  as  soon  as  the  Indians  were  don,  the 
whites  commenced  theres  &  just  as  we  were  finishing  our  dance 
the  report  of  a  gun  was  heard  60  or  70  yards  up  the  Island  from 
where  the  dance  was  held,  many  of  us  repared  there  forth  with 
and  on  arriving  there  we  saw  that  Big  Bullet  was  breathing  his 
last.  I  do  not  think  that  he  drew  more  than  to  or  three  breaths 
after  we  arrived  there.  He  was  shot  with  a  rifle,  the  ball  passing 
through  his  boddy  and  just  grasing  his  nee.  when  Big  Bullet 
was  shot  he  was  sitting  alone  on  a  seckond  bank  of  the  Island 
near  the  edge  of  the  water,  making  a  pair  of  nice  beded  mock- 
assons.  the  gun  with  which  he  was  shot  was  found  on  a  small 
Island  which  lay  in  be  tween  the  main  Island  and  the  fort,  there 
was  no  one  to  whome  the  murder  could  be  traced,  the  owner  of 


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the  gun  found  near  where  Big  Bullet  was  shot,  belonged  to  a 
man  by  the  name  of  King,  was  absent  at  the  time  the  murder 
was  committed  and  had  been  gone  for  several  days  on  furlough 
to  visite  some  of  his  friends  at  some  of  the  distant  forts,  and  his 
gun  was  left  at  the  fort,  whoever  committed  the  murder  took 
King's  gun  and  while  the  whites  were  engaged  in  their  dance  he 
crept  into  the  little  Isleand  (alluded  to  above)  and  being  protected 
by  the  dense  growth  on  the  Island,  shot  his  victim  and  made  his 
escape  back  to  the  fort  unseen  by  any  one.  the  commander  of 
the  fort  offered  a  reward  of  500  pounds  to  who  ever  would  ferret 
out  and  bring  to  light  the  author  of  the  deed,  the  scoundrel 
who  committed  the  deed  had  acted  so  cautiously  that  he  was 
never  brought  to  justice.  some  time  after  the  army  was  dis- 
banded, it  was  said  a  sertain  man  (his  name  I  have  forgotten), 
who  lived  on  the  frontier  and  had  his  father  and  mother  killed 
by  the  Indians  during  the  war  which  they  waged  against  the 
whites  on  the  frontier,  he  toock  an  oath  that  he  woulde  have  re- 
venge by  killing  an  Indians,  he  was  said  to  be  the  one  who  shot 
Big  Bullet,  this  was  not  known  when  the  murder  was  commited 
on  the  long  Island  or  the  one  who  was  suspected  would  have 
been  arrested  and  brought  to  justice. 

38th.     I  have  no  knowledge  of  Capt.  Charles  G.  Watkins. 

39th.  I  cannot  give  you  any  satisfactory  account  of  Capt. 
Dillard,  of  Pittsylvania,  nor  of  his  lieutenant,  Hutchins,  sen. 
John  Dillard,  formerly  of  this  county  (has  been  dead  some  three 
years),  he  was  grandson  of  Capt.  Dillard,  of  Pittsylvania,  sen. 
John  Dillard  has  a  son  living  at  Henry  Court  hous,  Va.  (Mr.  A. 
H.  Dillard),  who  I  have  no  doubt  would  take  pleasure  In  giving 
you  any  information  in  his  powr.  respecting  his  Gran  father. 

40th.  Col.  Cleveland  **  was  born  and  raised  in  the  southern 
part  of  Orange,  Va.,  some  6  or  8  miles  from  the  mouth  of  a 
north  side  branch  of  the  Rapidan  river,  called  the  blue  vein. 
John  Cleaveland,  the  father  of  Benj.  Cleaveland,  lived  and  died 
at  this  place.  In  my  first  reckollection  the  father  and  mother,  as 
well  as  grand  father  &  grand  Mother  of  Col.  Cleaveland  resided 
at  this  place;  the  father  of  Col.  Cleaveland  was  born  &  raised 
on  the  blue  run  creek.  Col.  Cleaveland  &  John  Cleaveland  & 
wife  were  members  of  the  Baptist  Church,  was  what  might  be 
called  a  good  liver  but  was  far  from  being  wealthy,  he  lived  to  a 


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good  old  age.  Col.  Cleaveland*s  Grand  Father  &  Grand  Mother 
lived  until  they  were  about  a  hundred  years  of  age,  and  what  is 
vary  remarkable,  they  both  died  vary  suddenly  and  within  two 
or  three  days  of  each  other.  Col.  Cleaveland  had  five  brothers 
and  three  sisters.  Benj.  was  the  eldest  of  the  nine  children. 
Gen.  Thorn.  Sumpter  was  also  born  and  raised  in  the  uper  end 
of  Orange  county  near  the  blue  ridge.  I  never  new  his  Father 
for  he  died  before  my  reckollection,  his  mother  lived  to  be 
quite  an  old  woman,  beloved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew 
her.  the  father  of  Gen.  Sumpter**  was  not  wealthy  though  in 
easy  circumstances.  I  do  not  know  how  many  Brothers  or  Sis- 
ters Gen.  Sumpter  had.  I  new  his  bro.  Wm.,  who  was  not  of 
much  note.  I  also  new  one  Sister  of  his  who  married  a  man  by 
the  name  of  Lan.  General  Sumpter  I  think  had  onely  one  son 
who  was  sent  as  Minister  or  Consul  to  some  foreign  Court  and 
there  died. 

41th.  I  do  not  know  what  detained  Col.  Boon  in  North  Car- 
olina in  1778  and  '79. 

42.  I  cannot  say  positively  from  whom  I  obtained  the  Infor- 
mation respecting  the  secreted  papers  found  by  Campbell  in  the 
possession  of  the  Tory  whom  he  hung.  I  have  frequently  seen 
the  place  where  the  Tory  was  hung  and  heard  the  sercumstances 
detailed  by  persons  who  lived  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood. 
I  cannot  say  sertainly  that  I  obtained  the  information  from  Cam- 
bell  himself,  amongst  others,  altho*  I  think  it  more  than  proba- 
ble. I  was  not  with  Cambell  when  the  affair  happened  with 
Parson  McCrea  '• — the  Parson  lived  and  died  at  his  residence  in 
Cumberland. 

43th.  I  do  not  know  wheather  Col.  Abram  Buford  "  was  in 
General  Lewis*  campaign,  1774.  I  think  that  the  Capt.  Buford 
who  was  killed  at  Pt.  Pleasant  battle  was  a  brother  of  Col.  Abram 
Buford.  t 

44.  Little  Carpenter  was  of  fine  personal  appearance,  vary 
straight,  square  built,  weighed  about  145,  below  the  ordinary 
height,  about  55  or  60  years  of  adg.  Oconnistota  was  about  the 
height  of  Little  Carpenter,  with  heavy  and  dul  countenance, 
somewhat  corpulent  and  weighed  180.  he  did  not  speak  any 
english,  but  the  traders  who  could  converse  with  him,  said  that 
he  was  vary  dul  in  point  of  interlect.  I  know  not  what  became 
of  him  and  Little  Carpenter  after  the  treaty. 


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45th.  I  have  no  knowledge  of  Col.  John  Carter,"  Landon 
Carter/*  Parker,  Maj.  Jacob  Womack,**  nor  John  Reed.  I  was 
at  the  Long  Islands  when  the  treaty  was  signed  but  was  not 
one  of  the  signers. 

46th.  The  Indian  cheaf  of  whome  you  speake  was  called  the 
Dragon  Canoe,  he  was  said  to  be  vary  large  and  coarse  fea- 
tured Indian  fine  with  interlect  and  vary  strong  predjudices. 

47th.  The  Company  that  I  went  with  to  Kentucky  in  March, 
1780,  was  not  a  company  of  militia,  but  a  party  of  men  going 
out  on  busyness,  for  the  Commibhions  were  to  meet  that  Spring 
at  Logan's  Station  to  deside  on  land  claims,  &  most  of  the  party 
had  land  claims  which  they  were  anxious  to  setde.  publick  no- 
tice was  given  sopie  time  before  wee  set  out  that  on  a  certain  day 
in  March,  a  company  would  set  out  from  the  block  house  for 
Kentucky,  since  I  have  received  your  letter,  I  have  had  reffer- 
ance  to  my  orriginal  manuscript,  and  find  that  I  saw  a  company 
of  men  set  out  from  the  block  house  (on  the  north  fork  of  Hol- 
ston)  for  Kentucky,  in  March,  1779  or  '80.  My  grandson  who 
copied  it  for  me,  must  have  made  a  mistake  and  I  did  not  ob- 
serve it  in  correcting  the  coppy.  Since  the  date  of  my  last  let- 
ter I  have  been  examining  some  of  my  old  papers  and  find  that 
the  trip  I  made  to  Kentuck,  was  in  March,  1780,  and  I  returned 
the  latter  part  of  May  or  first  of  June  following,  and  it  was  in 
the  latter  part  of  that  year  that  I  saw  Col.  Boon  in  Richmond. 
If  you  would  refer  to  the  records  of  Va.  of  that  date  you  will 
perceive  that  the  Legislature  met  twice  a  year  for  several  years, 
and  it  was  during  the  seckond  seshion  of  the  Legislature  of  the 
year  1780,  that  I  saw  Col.  Boon  in  Richmond. 

48th.  The  trip  that  you  allude  to  of  my  haveing  made  against 
the  Torys  at  the  head  of  Dan  &  Arrarat  Rivers  in  the  Summer 
of  1780,  was  made  in  consequence  of  an  incursion  that  Torys 
had  just  made  in  that  region  of  country,  they  had  robed  a  great 
many  of  the  Whigs  and  had  killed  a  gallant  Whig  in  cold  blood, 
Col.  [illegible].  500  men  were  soon  raised  &  put  under  the  com- 
mand of  Col.  [illegible]  Penn  and  sent  in  pursuit  of  the  Torys,  but 
when  we  arrived  there,  the  Torys  had  dispersed,  the  People  on 
the  hed  waters  of  Dan  Si  Arrarat  Rivers  were  mostly  Tory ;  they 
have  no  regular  organized  partys  among  them,  they  generally 
met  in  small  parties,  robed  and  murdered  and  then  cleared  out. 


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Wm.  Nickoles  was  the  Leader  of  the  Torys  in  that  county  &  he 
had  enlisted  in  the  American  army,  deserted  and  went  to  the 
british,  receiving  from  them  a  commishion  of  Col.  of  horse,  after 
receiving  his  commishion  he  returned  to  the  head  of  Yadkin  and 
[illegible]  River,  raised  a  company  of  light  hors  and  at  the  head 
of  his  Company  shot  the  gallant  Capt.  Luther  [?]  dead  in  his 
own  house. 

49th.  I  know  nothing  of  the  personal  conflict  to  which  you 
allude  as  having  taken  place  at  the  battle  of  the  Isleands  flats  of 
Holston  in  July,  1776,  between  an  Indian  and  white  man. 

50th.  You  are  mistaken  in  regard  to  Gen.  Martain*s  having 
led  a  party  of  men  in  pursuit  of  some  Indians  in  the  loar  part  of 
Powers  Valley  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  I  was  with 
Martain  during  Cristean*s  Campane,  until  peace  was  made,  and 
the  affair  you  allude  to  did  not  happen  during  that  period,  and 
after  the  peace  of  July,  1777,  Gen.  Martain  was  appointed  In- 
dian agent  and  served  in  that  cappassity  until  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  during  the  period  he  served  as  Agent 
you  will  recollect  that  peace  existed  between  the  Cherokees  and 
whites,  the  affair  to  which  you  allude  must  have  orriginated  in 
the  sercumstances  of  Gen.  Martain  having  gone  in  pursuit  of  the 
Indians  who  committed  the  murders  on  the  Holston  below  the 
long  Island  where  Col.  Christian"  was  building  his  fort,  this 
affair  was  alluded  to  in  my  former  letter. 

51.  I  know  nothing  of  the  Tory's  skirmishes  to  which  you 
allude  as  haveing  taken  place  at  the  round  Meadows  in  1779. 

52th.  I  have  seen  many  of  the  old  King's  Mountain  men 
'  and  conversed  freely  with  them  upon  the  subject  pf  that  Men\- 
orable  battle,  all  of  these  men  spoke  of  Cambell's  bearing  in 
that  battle  in  the  vary  highest  strain,  and  from  all  I  could  learn 
the  success  of  it  was  as  much  due  to  Cambell  as  any  other  man. 
I  was  personally  acquainted  with  Cambell  and  his  publick 
character  was  well  known  to  me,  and  never  heard  him  accused 
of  cowardess  untell  many  years  after  his  death.  I  was  informed 
by  som  of  tiie  King's  Mountain  men  that  while  the  battle  waxed 
warm  some  of  the  officers  of  the  day,  seeing  that  they  had  the 
Torys  in  their  pour,  determined  that  they  would  capture  the 
whole  of  the  enemy,  and  in  order  to  do  this  it  was  agreed  that 
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positions  so  as  to  cut  off  the  retreat  of  the  enemy,  by  the  time 
that  Cambell  occupied  the  position  assigned  him,  the  enemy 
vary  unexpectedly  laid  down  their  arms  and  hoisted  a  white  flag. 
It  may  have  been  that  the  position  assigned  to  Cambell  was 
farther  from  the  enemy  than  some  of  the  others,  and  conse- 
quently Cambell  did  not  arrive  quite  as  soon  as  some  of  the 
others,  admitting  this  if  it  be  so,  it  does  not  prove  that  the 
[Kisition  he  occupied  was  not  as  responsible  as  the  others,  or  that 
he  did  not  render  as  effecient  servise.  I  am  perfectly  satisfied 
that  the  rumer  to  which  you  allude,  of  Cambells  having  skulked 
away  during  the  battle  is  a  base  Callumny. 

53th.  I  do  not  know  of  any  military  servis  performed  by  Col. 
Donclson  **  nor  of  any  land  purchased  by  him  of  the  Indians  in 
Kentucky.  My  first  acquaintance  with  him  was  in  1774,  at 
which  time  he  was  surveyor  for  Pitsilvania.  he  then  appeared 
to  be  about  50  years  of  age,  rather  over  the  ordinary  size  of  men, 
slightly  inclined  to  be  fleshy. 

54th.  Col.  James  Harrod"  setded  Harrod  Station  on  the 
head  waters  of  Salt  river  in  Kentucky  in  (  I  think)  1775.  Col. 
.Samuel  Newell  &  his  wife  was  at  Martain*s  Station  in  Powel's 
valley  in  1775  or  '76 — he  spent  some  time  there.  1  know  not 
where  he  went.  I  know  nothing  of  Col.  McGary,"  jMaj.  Wm. 
B.  Smith,"  nor  of  any  particular  event  in  the  life  of  Col.  Floyd  ^ 
or  Col.  Wm.  Ingles. 

55th.     I  know  not  what  gave  name  to  Clinch  River. 

56th.  I  cannot  describe  the  locality  of  Woodsgap  or  what 
gave  rise  to  its  name.  I  never  knew  that  kanawa  River  was 
originally  called  Wood's  River. 

57th.  I  know  nothing  of  any  Indian  treaty  that  Dr.  Walker" 
held  at  Fort  Chiswell  nor  of  his  going  to  England,  he  was 
rather  under  ordinary  size,  weighed  about  140,  round  shouldered, 
his  hair  (I  suppose)  was  originally  black,  it  was  gray  when  I  saw 
him  last  in  1786.  he  was  about  75  years  of  age  and  died  I  think 
in  the  year  1787  or  '88. 

58.  Col.  Benj.  Logan**  was  a  representative  from  Kentucky 
about  the  year  1780.  I  know  of  no  other  representative  from 
Kentucky  about  that  time  except  Boon. 

59th.  I  do  not  know  Indian  names  of  any  of  the  Western 
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6oth.  I  know  nothing  of  Gen.  Spotswood's  trip  across  the 
blueridge.* 

6ith.  I  know  nothing  of  Tailing's  &  Howard's  trip  down  the 
Ohio  &  Mississippi. 

62nd.  I  do  not  know  what  gave  name  to  Guests  River  nor 
Walker's  mountain  or  creek. 

63rd.  I  have  no  knowledge  of  the  road  to  which  you  allude 
as  crossing  a  ridge  on  the  waters  of  Trading  creek.  I  think  that 
if  this  road  had  of  been  there  in  1775  (and  it  had  been  the  work 
of  man)  I  would  have  known  something  of  it.  I  think  it  more 
than  probable  that  the  road  to  which  you  allude  was  made  by 
the  Buffaloes  and  other  animals  which  roamed  in  the  valley  for 
thousands  of  years,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  all  licks  with 
which  I  have  been  acquainted  there  are  roads  of  vary  ancient 
appearance  which  were  made  by  the  animals,  and  it  is  sometimes 
the  case  that  the  roads  are  located  with  a  good  deal  of  judgment 
when  crossing  a  hill  or  ridge.  I  cannot  give  you  the  precise 
locality  of  Trading  Creek.  I  have  no  knowledge  of  the  Joseph 
Martain  who  prepared  the  Gazeteeir. 

^4jJ|^        ^  ^^  ^  ^  ^  ^K  ^ 

65th.  Eaton's  Fort  is  situated  about  7  miles  above  the  long 
Isleand  of  Holston  on  the  Fort  chiswell  road,  inclosed  about 
one  and  half  acres  of  ground,  built  nearly  in  a  square,  the  cabins 
built  about  12  to  15  feet  apart  with  Stockades  between  them. 

66th.  I  do  not  know  of  any  active  service  performed  by  Col. 
James  Callaway*  or  Maj.  Lankford."  Col.  Callaway  died  in  the 
county  of  Bedford,  Va. ,  near  the  village  of  Newlondon.  he  left 
many  children,  one  of  whom  (Capt.  John  Callaway)  lives  in  this 
county  6  miles  North  of  Martainsville.  Maj.  Lankford  **  repre- 
sented the  county  of  Pitsylvania,  Va.,  in  the  Legislature  for 
many  years  and  died  in  that  county. 

67th.  Col.  Archibald  Gordon"  was  Col.  of  Militia  in  Pitsyl- 
vania, Va.,  in  1774.  he  was  scotch  by  birth,  lived  &  died  with- 
out marrying,     he  died  in  Franklin,  near  the  line  of  Henry. 

68.  I  was  born  on  the  25th  day  of  October,  1755.  In  Jan- 
uary, 1775,  when  we  were  on  our  way  to  settle  Martain' s  Station 
in  Powel's  valley,  in  going  down  Walden's  creek  near  its  junc- 
tion with  Powel's  river  where  the  hills  closed  in  vary  near  the 
creek  was  discovered  the  remains  of  an  old  hunting  camp,  and 


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in  front  of  the  camp  the  bones  of  two  men  were  lying  bleached, 
they  were  said  to  be  the  Bones  of  two  men  who  went  out  hunt- 
ing in  the  fall  of  1773,  and  never  returned — their  names  I  have 
forgotten. 

12  miles  south  of  Martain's  Station  on  PoweFs  River  there 
was  a  vary  rich  piece  of  bottom  land  called  Rob  Camp.  In  this 
there  was  the  remains  of  an  old  hunting  camp  from  which  the 
land  took  its  name,  as  it  may  be  of  some  little  interest  to  you  to 
know  the  origin  of  the  name,  I  will  give  it  to  you — some  five 
years  before  Martain*s  Station  was  settled  3  men  with  2  horses 
each  and  with  their  traps,  guns  and  other  necessary  implements 
for  a  long  hunt,  settled  down  in  the  bottom  above  alluded  to, 
built  a  camp  &  spent  the  fall,  winter  &  part  of  the  spring  there 
in  hunting,  at  that  period  peace  existed  between  the  whites  & 
Indians,  these  hunters  were  vary  successful  in  killing  game  and 
lived  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  Indians  [who]  frequently  visited 
the  hunters  and  congratulated  them  upon  their  success  in  taking 
game,  this  intimacy  continued  until  the  Spring  at  which  time 
the  hunters  concluded  that  they  had  as  much  fur  skins  as  they 
could  conveniendy  carry  home,  accordingly  they  commenced 
packing  up  and  in  the  morning  when  they  had  completed  their 
packing  loaded  their  horses  and  was  in  the  act  of  setting  out  for 
home  with  the  earnings  of  their  successful  hunt,  12  or  15  Indians 
came  up,  took  possession  of  their  horses,  furs,  guns  and  in  fact 
all  that  the  hunters  had,  and  in  exhange  gave  them  three  of  their 
old  guns  and  told  the  Hunters  that  the  land  that  they  had  been 
hunting  on  belonged  to  the  Indians  and  also  the  game,  that  they 
would  spare  their  lives  that  time  but  cautioned  them  never  to 
returne. 

I  have  answered  many  of  the  inquiries  propounded  by  you  to 
me.  Many  of  them  I  could  not  answer,  I  regret  very  much  that 
I  could  not  give  you  a  satisfactory  answer  to  all  of  them,  yet  you 
may  rest  perfectly  assured  that  I  have  done  the  best  that  I  could 
for  you.  When  I  received  your  communication  of  May  my 
health  was  very  feeble  and  continued  so  for  several  months, 
which  is  the  reason  of  my  not  having  responde^l  to  inquiries  long 
before  this.  I  am  now  happy  to  inform  you  that  my  health  has 
greatly  improved  and  at  this  time  is  as  good  as  it  has  been  for 
many  years  with  the  exception  of  a  slight  cold.     I  must  now  bring 


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my  long  (and  I  fear  in  many  instances  uninteresting)  communi- 
cation to  a  close  by  wishing  you  great  success  in  the  undertaking 
which  you  have  before  you. 

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NOTES. 

'On  July  7,  1776,  Elizabeth  and  Frances,  daughters  of  Colo- 
nel Richard  Callaway,  and  Jemima,  daughter  of  Daniel  Boone, 
the  first  grown,  and  the  other  two  about  fourteen  years  of  age, 
were  captured  by  five  Indians  from  a  canoe  in  the  Kentucky 
river,  within  sight  of  Boonsborough.  Their  fathers,  with  a  parly 
of  men,  pursued  and  recaptured  them  next  day,  unhurt,  about 
thirty  miles  distant.  Among  the  rescuing  party  were  Samuel 
Henderson  and  Captain  John  Holder,  recognized  as  the  lovers 
of  the  two  Callaway  girls.  On  August  6th  of  the  same  year, 
being  the  first  marriage  solemnized  in  Kentucky,  Henderson  and 
Elizabeth  Callaway  were  married.  The  others  were  married 
later. 

•General  James  Robertson,  the  celebrated  pioneer,  and  one  of 
the  founders  of  Tennessee.  He  was  born  in  Brunswick  county, 
V^a.,  June  28,  1742,  and  died  in  Chickasaw  county,  Tennessee, 
September  i,  1814.  For  his  life  and  services  see  biographical 
dictionaries,  **  Life  and  Times  of  General  James  Robertson,'*  by 
A.  W.  Putnam;  and  **  The  Rear  Guard  of  the  Revolution,'*  by 
J.  R.  Gilmore. 

'General  Joseph  Martin,  long  prominent  on  the  southwest 
frontiers. 

*  Colonel  William  Witcher,  of  Pittsylvania  county,  was  in  ac- 
tive service  as  captain  of  militia  from  that  county  in  1776  (J//7/- 
iia  Pay  Book).  He  was  ancestor  of  Vincent  Witcher,  prominent 
in  public  affairs  in  Virginia,  who  was  grandfather  of  Colonel  Vin- 
cent A.  Witcher,  C.  S.  Cavalry,  now  of  Pittsylvania  county. 

'  Colonel  Anthony  Bledsoe,  doubtless  a  native  of  Spotsylvania 
county,  Va.,  was  in  command  at  Fort  Patrick  Henry,  on  the 
southwestern  frontier  in  1776  and  1777,  and  warrants  for  his  pay 
appear  in  the  **  Militia  Book,"  as  well  as  for  pay  for  supplies  and 
wagons  furnished  the  Cherokee  Expedition,  and  the  Washington 
County  Militia  in  1777.     On  March  13,  1777,  the  Governor  and 


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Council  ordered  that  400  men  should  be  stationed  on  the  south- 
west frontier  under  Colonel  Evan  Shelby  and  Major  Anthony 
Bledsoe  (^Council  Journal^,  He  had  early  in  his  life,  as  sur- 
veyor and  Indian  fighter,  become  acquainted  with  the  country 
now  the  State  of  Tennessee.  He  discovered  that  the  extension 
of  the  Virginia  and  North  Carolina  boundary  line  westward, 
would  leave  the  Watauga  and  Nollichuchy  settlements,  and  Car- 
ter's Valley,  in  the  latter  State.  In  1784,  he  built  a  fort  near 
Bledsoe's  Lick.  He  was  killed  by  the  Creek  Indians,  July  20, 
1788.     In  1793,  the  Indians  killed  two  of  his  sons. 

•Evan  Shelby,  born  in  Wales,  1720,  died  at  King's  Meadows 
(now  Bristol),  Tennessee,  December  4,  1794.  He  came  with  his 
father  to  Maryland  in  1735,  served  in  the  French  and  Indian 
War,  from  the  rank  of  private  to  captain,  and  commanded  a 
company  from  Washington  county,  Va.,  at  the  battle  of  Point 
Pleasant.  During  the  Revolution  he  was  a  colonel  of  Virginia 
forces,  and  was  afterwards  a  brigadier-general  of  militia.  He 
was  father  of  Isaac  Shelby,  Governor  of  Kentucky. 

^  Probably  James  Dysart,  afterwards,  Major  and  Colonel  of  the 
Washington  County  Militia.  In  a  letter  written  June  3d,  1785, 
Arthur  Campbell  speaks  of  him  as  one  of  the  best  officers 
in  the  county  (  CaL  Va.  State  Papers).  He  supported  Campbell 
in  the  effort  made  in  1785,  to  induce  the  counties  of  Washington 
and  Montgomery  to  secede  from  Virginia  and  form  a  new  State 
to  be  established  in  the  West — a  matter  in  regard  to  which  there 
is  much  information  in  the  Calendar  of  Virginia  State  Papers. 

*  Geo.  Maxwell  represented  Sullivan  county  in  the  Convention 
of  the  State  of  Franklin,  or  Frankland  in  1785,  and  in  the  Ten- 
nessee Legislature  1787. 

•  Perhaps  the  Col.  John  Anderson,  who  lived  near  the  Clinch 
River,  and  who  in  1789  wrote  two  letters  to  Col.  Arthur  Camp- 
bell from  ''The  Block  House"  {CaL  Va,  State  Papers,  IV,  618, 
632). 

*°  Collins  (^History  of  Kentucky)  states  that  on  a  tree  near 
Barren  river,  Warren  county,  Ky.,  was  the  inscription  "Wm. 
Buchanan,  June  14,  1775." 

"  Nathaniel,  son  of  Christopher  Gist  of  Maryland,  is  said  to 
have  been  with  his  father,  and  brother,  at  Braddocks  defeat.  He 
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captured  at  Charleston  May  12,  1780,  and  retired  Jan.  ist,  1781. 
He  married  Judith  Gary  Bell,  daughter  of  David  Bell,  of  Buck- 
ingham county,  Va.,  and  niece  of  Archibald  Cary  of  **  Amp- 
thill'*  and  had  issue  i.  Henry  Cary;  2.  Thos.  Cecil;  3.  Sarah 
Howard,  married  U.  S.  Senator  Jesse  Bledsoe,  of  Ky. ;  4.  Ann, 
married  Col.  Nathaniel  Hart,  of  Ky.,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Henry 
Clay;  5.  Daughter,  married  Dr.  Boswell,  of  Lexington,  Ky.; 
6.  Elizabeth  V.  H.,  married  Francis  P.  Blair,  and  was  brother 
of  Montgomery  Blair;  7.  Daughter,  married  Benjamin  Gratz,  of 
Lexington,  Ky.  Perhaps  the  reference  in  the  text  may  be  to 
another  Nathaniel  Gist. 

"Col.  John  Bowman  was  a  justice  of  Botetourt  county  in  1770. 
In  the  summer  of  1777  the  Virginia  government  sent  him  to 
Kentucky  with  a  force  of  one  hundred  men,  and  commissioned 
him  county  lieutenant  commanding  there.  In  1779  he  led  an  ex- 
pedition against  the  Indiana  north  of  the  Ohio,  and  was  defeated, 
but  proved  himself  on  other  occasions  an  active  and  successful  sol- 
dier. In  1 78 1  he  was  county  lieutenant  of  Lincoln  county,  and 
was  a  judge  of  the  first  court  held  in  Kentucky. 

"Col.  Daniel  Smith  was  for  some  time  presiding  justice  of 
Augusta  county.  In  1776  he  was  captain  of  militia  there,  and 
when  Rockingham  was  formed  in  1778,  he  became  one  of  its  first 
justices,  and  later  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  militia  of  that 
county.  He  was  son  of  Captain  John  Smith,  who  was  captured 
by  the  French  and  Indians,  and  long  held  a  prisoner.  Col. 
Daniel  Smith  married  Jane,  sister  of  Col.  Benj.  Harrison,  of 
Rockingham  county.  For  a  notice  of  the  family  see  W^addeW  s 
Augusta  County,  page  413,  &c. 

**  Benjamin  Cleveland,  born  on  Bull  Run,  Prince  William 
county,  Va.,  May  26,  1738  (according  to  Wheeler);  subsequently 
removed  to  Orange  county,  where  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Graves,  and  in  1769  settled  in  North  Carolina.  He  was  a  gallant 
and  efficient  officer  throughout  the  Revolution,  and  was  one  of 
the  commanders  at  Kings  Mountain.  He  died  October,  1806. 
See  Wheeler's  Sketches  of  North  Carolina,  416,  &c.,  and  Dra- 
per's  Kings  Mountain  and  Its  Heroes. 

"  General  Thos.  Sumpter,  the  well  known  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, bom  in  Virginia,  1754,  and  died  in  South  Carolina,  June 
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"•Rev.  Christopher  McRae,  of  Southam  parish,  Cumber- 
land county,  was  a  Scotchman,  and  was  not  supposed  to  favor 
the  Revolution.  Some  young  men  of  the  county,  as  a  punish- 
ment for  his  supposed  Tory  feeling,  took  him  from  his  house, 
whipped  him  severely  and  left  him  naked  in  the  woods.  The 
perpetrators  of  this  outrage  were  heavily  fined.  Mr.  McRae 
was  a  man  of  much  piety  and  learning,  was  educated  at  Edin- 
burgh, and  it  is  stated,  was  offered  a  professorship  as  soon  as  he 
graduated,  but  declined  and  came  to  Virginia,  becoming  first, 
the  minister  of  Southwark  parish,  Surry  (where  he  married  in 
1778,  a  daughter  of  John  Harris,  of  that  county),  and  afterwards 
of  Southam.  He  died  in  Powhatan  county,  Dec.  22,  1808,  in 
his  seventv-fifth  year.  He  has  many  descendants,  and  one  of  his 
sons,  Alexander  McRae,  of  Richmond,  a  distinguished  lawyer, 
was  lieutenant-governor  of  the  State. 

*^  Abraham  Buford,  bom  in  Bedford  county,  Va. ,  died  in  Scott 
county,  Ky.,  June  29,  1833.  He  was  appointed  colonel  of  the 
nth  Va.  Regiment,  May  16,  1778,  and  on  May  29,  1780,  his 
command  was  surprised  and  massacred  by  Tarleton  at  Waxhaw 
creek.  For  a  notice  of  him  and  some  of  his  descendants,  see 
Green  s  Historic  Families  of  Kentucky, 

"Colonel  John  Carter  was  in  1772,  a  member  of  the  commit- 
tee of  thirteen,  the  governing  body  of  the  Watauga  settlements; 
and  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  Convention  of  1776,  from 
Washington  county;  in  1777  was  colonel  commanding  the  militia 
of  that  county. 

*•  Landon  Carter  was  member  of  the  Convention  of  the  "State 
of  Franklin,"  from  Sullivan  county,  August,  1784,  and  was 
chosen  Secretary  of  State.  In  1785,  he  was  speaker  of  the  first 
Senate  of  Franklin. 

"In  1772,  Jacob  Womack  was  one  of  the  committee  of  thir- 
teen, the  governing  body  of  the  Watauga  settlements;  was  in 
1776,  a  member  of  the  North  Carolina  Provincial  Congress  from 
Washington  district.     He  was  also  a  major  of  militia. 

*^  Colonel  William  Christian,  born  in  Augusta  county,  in  1743 
(says  Mr.  Waddell,  in  his  Auj^ista  County,  who  is  much  more 
apt  to  be  correct  than  the  writer  in  Appleton' s  Cyclopedia  of 
American  Biography,  who  says:  "Berkeley  county — a  county 
not  then  formed — in   1732.")     He  was  killed  by  the   Indians, 


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April  9,  1786  (not  in  June,  1782,  as  stated  by  Appleton).  He 
was  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  the  frontier,  and  his  life  is  so  well 
known  that  no  account  of  it  need  be  given  here.  The  Calendar  of 
Virj^nia  State  Papers  contains  a  number  of  letters  from  him, 
and  others  expressing  great  grief  at  his  death. 

•'Col.  John  Donelson  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses for  Pittsylvania,  1769,  1770,  1771,  1772,  1773,  and  March, 

1774.  About  1769  he  made  a  treaty  with  the  Indians,  by  which 
the  western  frontiers  of  Virginia  were  obtained,  and  in  1778  was 
engaged,  with  Robertson  and  others,  in  encouraging  emigra- 
tion to  the  country  now  Tennessee.  In  December,  1779,  with 
his  family  and  a  considerable  party  of  emigrants,  he  left  Fort 
Patrick  Henry,  on  Holston  river,  and  descended  by  boat  to  the 
Big  Salt  Lick,  near  the  present  Nashville,  where  he  settled.  His 
descendants  have  been  prominent  in  Tennessee,  and  his  daughter 
Rachel  was  the  wife  of  Andrew  Jackson.  Considerable  inform- 
ation in  regard  to  the  Donelsons  will  be  found  in  PartorC s  Life 
of  fackson ;  see  index  of  that  work.  Col.  Donelson*s  diary 
during  his  trip  to  Big  Salt  Lick  has  been  printed  in  Putnam' s 
History  of  Middle  Tennessee^  p.  69-76.  See  also  Donelson  and 
the  Piooneers  of  Middle  Tennessee,  by  Hon.  J.  M.  Bright,  Wash- 
ington, 1880.     Letters  from  him  are  printed  in  Vol.  Ill,  CaL 

Virginia  State  Papers, 

"James  Harrod,  a  native  of  Shenandoah  county,  Va..  the 
founder  of  Harrodsburg,  and  one  of  the  worthiest  pioneers  of 
Kentucky.  Accounts  of  his  life  and  services  may  be  found  in 
many  publications.  A  good  epitome  is  contained  in  a  note  in 
the  new  edition  of  Withers'  Border  Warfare,  pp.  190-191. 

"Major  Hugh  McGary,  whose  rashness  and  insubordination 
contributed  largely  to  the  defeat  at  Blue  Licks.  In  1785  he 
murdered  an  Indian  chief,  who  was  a  prisoner  to  troops  com- 
manded by  CqI.  Benj.  Logan.  He  was  a  famous  hunter  and 
Indian  fighter,  who  had  come  to  Kentucky  with  his  family  in 

1775,  and  in  January,  1781,  was  appointed  one  of  the  first  justices 
for  Kentucky,  and  in  July,  1781,  commissioned  Major  of  the 
Lincoln  county  militia.  Though  his  fatal  misconduct  at  Blue 
Licks  appears  to  have  brought  him  no  punishment,  he  was  court- 
martialed  March  21st,  1787,  at  Bardstown.  Ky.,  and  found  guilty 
of  murder  in  killing  the  Indian  chief,  and  of  insubordination  in 


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insulting  and  abusing  Lt.  Col.  Trotter,  of  Fayette  county,  who 
had  tried  to  save  the  prisoner's  life.  Sentence  was  suspended 
for  one  year,  and  it  appears  that  McGary  was  allowed  to  resign. 
{CaL  Virginia  State  Papers,  IV,  p.  258,  &c.) 

*  Major  Wm.  B.  Smith  was  one  of  the  party  who  rescued 
Jemima  Boone  and  the  Callaways  in  July,  1776. 

""Col.  John  Floyd  was  born  in  Virginia  about  1750,  went  to 
Kentucky  as  a  surveyor  in  1775,  and  *' during  the  ensuing  six 
years  was  among  the  foremost  in  all  that  was  planned  and  exe- 
cuted for  the  protection  of  the  settlers  and  the  development  of 
the  country."  On  April  12,  1783,  he  was  killed  by  the  Indians. 
See  Collins'  History  of  Kentucky,  II,  p.  238,  &c.  He  married 
first,  about  1768,  Miss  Burfoot,  of  Chesterfield  county  (and  had 
a  daughter,  Mourning,  who  married  Colonel  John  Stuart,  of 
Georgia),  and  secondly,  Jane,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Buchanan. 
By  the  second  marriage  he  had  (i)  George  R.  C,  a  colonel  in 
the  war  of  181 2,  who  died  in  182 1,  and  (2)  John,  born  near 
Louisville,  April  24,  1783;  removed  to  Virginia  in  1804;  M.  C. 
1817-29;  Governor  of  Virginia,  1829-34,  and  died  August  16, 
1837.     He  was  the  father  of  Governor  John  B.  Floyd. 

"  Dr.  Thos.  Walker. 

"  General  Benjamin  Logan.  See,  among  many  other  notices 
of  him  in  various  publications,  Green^ s  Historic  Families  of  Ken- 
tucky, which  contains  a  sketch  of  his  life  and  an  account  of  the 
Logan  family. 

*The  well  known  expedition  of  the  **  Knights  of  the  Horse- 
shoe" to  the  mountains  in  1716.  See  Slaughter's  History  of 
St.  Mark' s  Parish,  pp.  83-96. 

**Col.  James  Callaway,  of  Bedford  county;  bom  December  21, 
1736;  was  son  of  Col.  Wm.  Callaway,  of  Bedford;  was  frequently 
in  the  House  of  Burgesses,  and  rendered  very  efficient  service  as 
county  lieutenant  of  Bedford  during  the  Revolution.  See  Rich- 
mond Standard,  December  25,  1880. 

"  Benjamin  Lankford,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Pittsylvania,  August,  1774,  and  1775,  and  of  Conventions  of 
March  and  December,  1775,  and  of  1776,  and  doubtless  member 
of  the  Legislature  in  later  years. 

"Col.  Archibald  Gordon  was  also  county  lieutenant  of  Halifax. 


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WILL  OF  CHRISTOPHER  ROBINSON,  1693. 


[Christopher  Robinson,  whose  will  is  here  printed  from  a  cer- 
tified copy  in  the  possession  of  a  descendant,  was  son  of  John 
Robinson,  of  Cleasby,  Yorkshire,  England,  and  brother  of  John 
Robinson,  Bishop  of  London.  He  was  born  at  Cleasby,  about 
1645,  and  came  to  Virginia  about  1666,  settling  at  an  estate  on 
the  Rappahannock,  in  Middlesex  county,  which  was  later  called 
*'  Hewick.'*  He  was  a  memt>er  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Middlesex  in  1691,  was  appointed  to  the  Council  in  the  same 
year,  and  Secretary  of  State  in  1692.  He  married  (i)  Agatha, 
daughter  of  Bertram  Obert  (who  seems  to  have  been  the  mother 
of  all  of  his  children),  and  (2)  Catharine,  widow  of  Major  Rob- 
ert Beverley.  Of  his  sons,  John  (i  683-1 749),  was  President  of 
the  Council,  and  acting  Governor,  and  Christopher,  of  *'Hew- 
ick  '*  (1681-1727),  was  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  A 
lengthy  note  (chiefly  derived  from  the  records  of  Middlesex), 
on  Christopher  Robinson  and  his  children,  was  published  in  this 
Magazine,  in  July,  1898.  Those  interested  in  agriculture  will 
note  the  **  ingine"  for  drying  tobacco,  which  is  mentioned.] 

In  the  Name  of  God  Amen.  I,  Christopher  Robinson,  of  the 
County  of  Middlesex  in  Virginia,  being  by  God's  great  Mercy, 
in  perfect  Sense  and  Memory,  but  considering  the  frailty  of  Man 
nature  and  vncertainty  of  the  time  of  my  Death,  Doe  make  and 
ordain  this  my  last  Will  &  Testament  in  manner  and  Forme  fol- 
lowing, hereby  Revoaking  and  making  Voyde  all  former  wills  by 
me  made.  And  first  I  bequeath  my  Soule  into  the  hands  of 
God  that  gave  it,  and  my  Body  to  the  Earth  from  whence  it  was 
taken,  to  be  decently  buryed  at  the  Discretion  of  my  Exec- 
uto"  hereafter  named,  hoping  for  a  Joy  full  Resurection  through 
the  great  Mercyes  of  God,  and  the  Merritts  of  my  Blessed  Sa- 
viour Christ  Jessus,  and  for  such  worldly  Goods  as  it  hath  pleased 
God,  ferr  beyond  my  deserts  to  bestow  upon  me,  I  dispose  of  the 
same  in  manner  following: 

Item.     My  will  is  that  all  my  just  debts  that  I  justly  owe  to 


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any  person  or  persons,  and  my  reasonable  funeral  Charges  be 
first  paid  and  satisfied. 

Item.  My  will,  mind  and  desire  is  that  all  the  rest  and  resi- 
due of  my  Estate  whatsoever  and  wheresoever  the  same  be, 
Except  Such  Legacies  as  I  may  hereafter  give  and  dispose  of  by 
this  my  will,  that  be  remaine  and  continue  intire  and  undivided, 
and  be  Imployed,  ordered  and  managed  to  and  for  thejoynt  and 
equall  advantage,  interest  and  Profitt  of  all  my  Dear  children  in 
common  and  equity. 

My  Dear  sons  Christopher,  John  and  Benjamine,  and  Dear 
Daughters  Ann,  Agatha,  Elizabeth  and  Clara  Robinson,  in  such 
manner  as  the  same  are  or  have  usually  been  ordered  and  man- 
aged and  Imployed  by  me,  or  as  shall  by  my  Executo"  and 
Overseers  of  this  my  will,  hereafter  named,  seeme  to  be  most  for 
the  Common  Interest  and  profitt  of  my  said  Dear  Children;  My 
desire  and  meaning  being  that  all  or  so  many  of  my  negroes, 
slaves  or  servants  as  my  Executo"  shall  from  time  to  time  think 
necessary  and  Convenient,  be  continued  and  Imployed  upon  my 
severall  plantations  in  Middlesex  County  afid  Essex  County,  in- 
tending and  making  crops  of  Corn  and  Tobacco,  or  and  about 
such  other  worke  and  I  m  ploy  men  t  as  may  be  most  profittable 
and  of  greatest  advantage  to  my  said  Deare  Children,  and  to 
cause  soe  much  as  they  my  s*  Execut"  or  overseers  shall  think 
fitt  of  the  Crops  of  Tobacco  to  be  cutt  and  Dryed  w^**  the  Ingine 
I  have  commonly  used  and  all  the  said  Cropp  of  Tobacco  either 
Cutt  or  in  the  Leafe  to  sell  and  dispose  of  in  the  Country,  or 
shipp  and  freight  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  and  Consigne  it 
from  time  to  time  to  such  Credible  person  or  persons  and  at  such 
places  as  the  Said  Executo"  or  Overseers  of  this  my  will  shall 
think  may  be  most  profittable  for  my  said  Children,  and  the  pro- 
duce or  Effects  of  all  such  Tobaccoes  and  the  profitts  of  all  my 
said  Estate  to  cause  to  be  secured  in  Money  in  good  responsible 
hands,  or  so  much  as  is  reasonable  and  necessary  to  be  returned 
to  this  County  in  -Goods  and  necessaries  for  the  decent  and  ne- 
cessary Cloathing  and  accomodating  my  said  Deare  Children, 
and  as  the  same  will  reasonably  afford  as  also  necessary  cloathing 
and  working  Tooles  and  other  conveniences  for  my  said  Negroes 
and  servants,  and  for  the  defraying  workemen's  wages,  leavys 
and  all  other  necessary  charges  as  they  shall  from  time  to  time 


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see  fitt  and  reasonable.  My  Desire  and  Meaning  being  that  my 
said  children  should  be  menteyned  and  Cloathed  in  decent  man- 
ner and  proportionable  to  there  age  and  p'ssent  Circumstances, 
without  Lessening  or  Impairing  my  said  Estate  w*"**  I  hope  by 
God's  blessing  and  the  Frugall  and  friendly  care  of  my  loveing 
friends  that  I  intrust  wi***  the  same,  will  be  improved  and  for  there 
greater  Ease  therein  and  better  management  of  the  said  Estate, 
my  will  and  desire  is  that  my  said  Executo"  or  Overseers  of  this 
my  will  or  the  greater  part  of  them  doe  from  time  to  time  as 
they  see  occasion,  Imploy  and  appoynt  Overseers  at  my  several 
plantations  or  one  or  more  person  or  persons  to  Looke  after  and 
manage,  and  take  Ace'  of  all  things  Relating  thereunto,  and  to 
make  such  agreements  and  make  such  allowances  in  wages  or 
otherwise  as  they  shall  see  fitt  and  Convenient,  and  as  they  see 
cause  any  of  the  said  Negroes  and  servants,  or  stock  of  Cattle, 
horses  or  other  part  of  my  Estate,  and  dispose  of  they  think 
may  be  most  to  the  advantage  of  my  said  Children,  and  Gener- 
ally to  doe  all  reasonable  and  necessary  things  relating  to  the 
p'misies. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  said  Deare  Children,  to 
each  of  them  an  Equall  part  and  portion  of  my  said  personal 
Estate  (Except  the  Legacies  hereafter  mentioned),  as  alssoe  an 
Equall  parte  of  the  Increase  and  Profitts  of  the  same,  to  be 
taken  and  Received  by  my  said  Sonns  when  they  shall  attaine 
to  the  age  of  twenty-one  Yeares  severally,  as  they  come  to  that 
age.  And  to  be  taken  and  Received  by  my  said  Daughters  as 
they  shall  attaine  the  said  age  of  twenty-one  years  or  the  day  of 
there  Marriage  which  shall  first  happen,  th^  said  equall  parts 
and  portions  to  be  delivered  severally  to  my  said  children  by 
the  discresion  and  consent  of  the  Overseers  of  this  my  will  or 
the  comon  agreement  of  my  said  Deare  children,  and  in  case 
any  doubt  or  difference  should  arise  about  the  same,  my  earnest 
desire  and  charge  to  all  my  said  Children  is  that  they  agree  and 
End  the  same  in  a  Loveing  manner  either  amongst  them  selves 
or  by  the  advice  and  Derection  of  the  Overseers  of  this  my  will 
or  other  Indifferent  Persons  w**out  goeing  to  Law. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  Loveing  Sonne  John  Robinson,  Fifty 
pounds,  to  be  Imployed  towards  the  Keeping  him  at  School  in 


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England  or  in  defraying  the  Charge  of  his  comeing  to  Virginia 
at  the  descretion  of  the  Overseers  of  this  my  will. 

Item,  my  will  and  minde  is  that  all  the  Lands  and  Planta- 
tions and  Mills  I  shall  dye  possessed  of  shal  be  used  and  Im- 
ployed  To  and  for  the  Common  and  Equall  profitt  and  Advantage 
of  all  my  said  Children,  and  the  Servants,  slaves  and  stockes  of 
horses,  cattle  no"  kept  and  Imployed  upon  the  same  at  the  dis- 
cression  of  the  Overseers  of  this  my  [last  will]  untill  each  of  my 
said  Children  cann  and  may  clame  there  part  or  share  of  my 
Personall  Estate  as  aforesaid,  that  the  same  to  be  disposed  of 
as  is  hereafter  Mentioned. 

Provided  that  my  sonn  Christopher  soe  soone  as  he  attayne  to 
the  age  of  twenty-one  yeares,  shall  be  imediately  putt  in  posses- 
sion of  my  now  dwelling.  Plantation  and  the  whole  dividend  of 
Land  thereunto  belonging,  to  be  from  thenceforward  held  and 
Enjoyed  for  his  own  use  and  behoofe.  And  that  my  sonn  John 
shall  be  alsoe  soe  soon  as  he  attaines  the  Age  of  twenty-one 
years,  possessed  of  the  Plantation  and  dividends  of  Lands  here- 
after in  this  my  will  goe  to  him  and  that  from  those  times  my 
Said  sonns  Christopher  and  John  shall  not  have  any  further 
shaire  or  Benefitt  w""  the  rest  of  my  said  children  of  the  remain- 
der of  my  Estate  Imployed  for  their  Common  Interest,  But  only 
their  due  shaire  and  parts  in  my  Personall  Estate  as  aforesaid. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Loving  sonn  Christopher 
Robinson,  all  that  my  Plantation  and  dividend  of  Land  called 
the  Grange,  scituatt  in  Middlesex  County,  from  and  after  such 
time  as  my  personall  Estate  appoynted  to  be  Imployed  on  that 
and  my  other  Lands  .for  the  comon  Benefit  of  all  my  Children, 
shal  be  Many  divided  and  delivered  to  them  as  they  come  to  age 
or  According  to  the  Intent  and  Meaning  of  this  my  will  as  is  be- 
fore mentioned  to  him  and  the  heires  of  his  body  lawfully  begot- 
ten, and  for  want  of  such  heirs,  to  my  son  John  Robinson,  and 
the  heirs  of  his  Body  lawfully  Begotten,  and  for  want  of  such 
heirs,  to  my  Right  heirs  forever.  Provided  that  my  sonn  Chris- 
topher shall  refuse  to  permitt  my  Dwelling  Plantation  to  be  used 
and  Imployed  for  the  Comon  Benefitt  of  all  my  Children  untill 
he  shall  attaine  to  the  age  of  one  and  Twenty  yeares  as  is  before 
Mentioned,  Then  the  devise  and  Bequest  to  him  of  the  said 
Plantation  called  the  Grange  shall  cease  and  determine  and  be  of 


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no  force,  and  the  Same  shall  imediateley  come  to  my  said  sonn 
John  Robinson,  under  the  conditions  and  limitations  aforesaid. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  said  sonn  Christopher  Rob- 
inson and  to  his  heires  forever,  my  water  mill  at  the  head  of 
Sunderland  Cryke  and  the  third  part  of  a  water  mill  at  the  head 
Niemcock  Cryke,  of  which  he  is  to  be  Possessed  when  he  at- 
taynes  to  the  Age  of  twenty-one  yeares,  untill  which  time  my 
will  is  that  all  my  Children  shall  have  Equall  shaire  in  the  profitts 
thereof  as  aforesaid  after  all  reasonable  charges  of  Reparation, 
&c. 

Item.  I  give  and  Bequeath  to  my  Loving  sonn  John  Robin- 
son, my  Plantation  and  Dividend  of  Land  which  was  formerly 
Mr.  Richard  Parrott's,  conteyning  about  one  thousand  one  hun- 
dred acres  of  Land,  scituate  on  Pyanhatanke  River  in  Middle- 
sex County,  of  which  he  is  to  be  possessed  at  the  Age  of  twenty 
one  yeares  &  to  his  heires  for  Ever. 

Item.  I  give  and  Bequeath  to  my  sonn  Benjamin  Robinson, 
and  to  his  heires  for  Ever,  One  thousand,  two  hundred  acres  of 
Land,  to  be  taken  out  of  a  dividend  of  two  thousand,  two  hun- 
dred acres  of  Land  comonly  called  Moone's  Mount,  in  Essex 
County,  Purchased  by  me  of  Mr.  John  Curtis  and  a  Dividend  of 
nine  hundred  Acres  by  me  Lately  taken  up,  adjoyning  to  the 
same  or  out  of  one  of  them,  the  said  twelve  hundred  acres  to  be 
Layd  of  intireley  togather  either  at  the  Lower  end  or  uper  End 
of  the  Said  Lands  and  to  run  the  full  breth  of  the  same. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Daughters  Ann,  Agatha, 
Elizabeth  and  Clara,  and  to  their  heires  for  Ever,  all  the  rest 
and  Residue  of  my  said  two  dividends  of  Land  called  Moone's 
Mount  to  be  Equally  divided  amongst  them,  the  Eldest  succes- 
sively haveing  her  first  Choice  of  One  forth  parte  thereof. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Loving  Brother,  Mr.  John 
Robinson,  five  pounds  sterling  to  be  disposed  of  at  his  discretion 
in  Rings  to  be  given  to  my  Friends  &  Relations  for  a  remem- 
brance of  me. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  said  Brother  John  Robin- 
son five  pounds  sterling,  to  be  at  his  discretion  distribute  amongst 
the  Poore  of  Cliesby  in  York  shire  where  I  was  borne. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  true  Friend  Mr.  William 
Churchhill  my  best  horse  and  furniture. 


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Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  loving  [brother]  Coll.  John 
Armestead  and  to  my  Loving  Sister  Mrs.  Judith  Armistead  to 
each  of  them  a  Ring  of  Twenty  Shillings  Valine  for  a  remem- 
brance of  me. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Loving  Friends  Capt.  Wil- 
liam Daniel,  Mr.  Exiwin  Thacker  and  Mr.  Paul  Thilman,  to  each 
of  them  a  Ring  of  Twenty  Shillings  Valine. 

Item.  I  g^ve  and  bequeath  to  my  Executo"  hereafter  men- 
tioned ten  pounds  Sterling  to  be  Bestowed  in  Rings  to  be  dis- 
tributed amongst  my  Friends  in  Virginia. 

Item.     I  give  to  my  Servant  James  Merritt  a  Cow  and  Calfe. 

Item.  I  make  and  Ordaine  my  Loveing  Sonns  Christopher, 
John  and  Benjamin  Robinson  Executo"  of  this  my  last  will  and 
Testament,  and  during  their  minority  I  hereby  Ordaine  and 
Appoynt  my  Loving  Brother  Mr.  John  Robinson,  my  loving 
Brother  in  Law  Coll.  John  Armistead,  my  Loving  Friends  Mr. 
William  Churchhill,  Capt.  William  Daniel,  Mr.  Edwind  Thacker 
and  Mr.  Paul  Thilman,  to  take  upon  them  the  Execution  of  this 
my  will  for  and  on  the  Behalfe  of  my  said  Children  and  accord- 
ing to  their  descression  to  order,  dispose  of  and  Imploy  my 
Estate  as  is  herein  before  mentioned  for  the  best  Advantage  of 
my  Said  Children  untill  my  Said  Sonns  Christopher  and  John 
Shall  be  of  full  age  and  then  together  w'**  my  Said  Sonns  to  have 
the  oversight  and  ordering  and  management  of  that  parte  of  my 
Estate  remaining  and  belonging  to  my  younger  Children  as  afore 
said,  and  it  is  my  will,  minde  and  desire  that  my  said  Brothers 
and  Freinds  whome  I  alsoe  make  Overseers  of  this  my  will  have 
the  Guardianshipp,  ordering  and  dispoosing  of  all  my  said 
Children  untill  they  shall  attayne  the  age  of  twenty  one  years  or 
Marry,  and  I  charge  all  my  children  that  both  in  their  Marriage 
and  other  things  they  take  the  Advice  and  observe  the  directions 
of  my  said  Friends,  and  of  their  Elder  Brothers  and  Sisters  after 
they  are  of  Age,  to  which  purpose  I  then  joyne  them  Severally 
w'*'  the  said  Overseers  of  this  my  will  w***  like  power  as  is  hereby 
given  to  them. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Loving  God  Daughter 
Agatha  and  Catherine  Daniel,  Daughters  of  Cap.  William  Daniel, 
one  cow  and  Calfe  a  piece  w^**  there  Encrease  to  he  delivered  to 
them  after  my  decease. 


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Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Mrs.  Alice  Nicholls,  Wid- 
dow,  one  thousand  pounds  of  Tobatco  to  be  paid  to  her  p'sently 
after  my  decease,  being  for  the  care  and  trouble  she  hath  taken 
w'^  me  during  the  time  of  my  Sickness. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Mrs.  Martha  Lee  five  pounds 
being  for  her  care,  paines  and  trouble  in  the  time  of  my  Sick- 
ness. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Richard  Radford,  my  Over- 
seer, one  young  horse  now  Running  at  the  Grange  commonly 
Called  black  WUd  Catt. 

In  Witness  Whereof  I  have  hereunto  Sett  my  name  and  affixed 
my  scale  to  this  my  Last  Will  and  Testament  Conteyned  in  two 
Sheets  of  Paper  under  Each  page  I  have  subscribed  my  Name 
this  27'*^  Day  of  Jan',  1692-3. 

Chr.  Robinson.  [Seal.] 
Signed,  Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us. 
Da.  Alexander, 
Jeremy  Dawkings, 
Richard  Radford, 
Tho.  Best. 

M"  That  att  a  Court  held  for  the  County  of  Middlesex  the  6'^ 
day  of  March,  1692-3. 
M^  David  Alexander  and  Richard  Radford  made  oath  that 
they  see  the  within  named  Christopher  Robinson,  Esq.,  Signe, 
Scale  and  Publish  the  within  written  will  to  be  his  Last  Will  and 
Testament,  and  that  he  was  then  in  his  perfect  sense  and  memory. 

Test,  Edwin  Thacker,  CI.  Cur. 

M*  That  att  a  Court  held  for  the  County  of  Middlesex  the 
third  day  of  Ap.  1693. 
Jeremy  Dawkings  made  oath  that  he  see  the  within  named 
Christopher  Robinson  Esq'  Signe,  Scale  and  Declare  the  within 
written  Will  to  be  his  Last  Will  and  Testament  and  that  he  was 
then  in  perfect  Minde  and  Memory. 

Test,  Edwin  Thacker,  CI.  Cu'. 

Copy  test,  Will.  Churchhill. 


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VIRGINIA  MIUTIA  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


[The  publication  of  the  '  >tllri^  fe*:<c  '  ^  temp-^rarily  sus- 
pended :n  order  to  give  plare  to  a  list  kinily  furnished  by  Mr. 
McAllister,  of  Warm  Springs-  Va_] 


Editor  llrgirua  J/z^ar/w  l;/'  Hi::ory  and  BL'^^rkr  : 

I  herewith  hand  to  you  a  list  of  names  of  soMiers  who  served 
in  the  Re\-olutionar>*  War  from  X^ireinia.  The  lis:  is  incomplete. 
It  was  made  with  a  \'iew  to  g^ather  the  available  in.f:>rmation  in 
regard  to  the  militia  soldiers  from  Aug^osra  cc'unr>".  but  in  the 
course  of  the  investigation  1  gathered  s-^me  data  in  regard  to 
soldiers  from  other  counties.  The  rank  of  the  scldier  is  given 
where  I  was  able  to  obtain  it.  The  03unrles  from  which  they 
came  (other  than  Augusta  •  are  in  most  instances  noted.  WTiere 
the  party  was  kno\»-n  to  be  a  pri\-ate  I  marked  this  fact,  by  put- 
ting the  letter  **  P  "  at  the  end  of  his  name.  Mc»st  of  these  are, 
I  believe,  militia  men,  but  some  of  them  are  not.  With  the  in- 
formation at  hand  I  am  not  able  to  determine  this  tact  accurately. 
On  the  1 8th  of  March,  ii>iS,  Congress  p^issed  an  act  making 
provision  for  placing  upon  the  pension  roll  all  commissioned 
officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  and  private  sol- 
diers, and  all  officers  in  the  hospital  and  medical  start,  who  served 
in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  In  June.  1S32,  Louis  Cass.  Secre- 
tary of  War,  wrote  a  letter  1  dated  June  15.  iS32>  to  Honorable 
Samuel  A.  Foote,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Pensions  in 
the  senate,  in  which  he  says  "  there  are  no  rolls  of  the  militia  in 
this  ^war;  department,  except  those  of  the  State  of  Newhamp- 
shire."  This  was  written  in  reference  to  the  act  of  Congress 
passed  June  7th.  1832,  entitled  **  An  act  supplementary-  to  an 
act  for  the  relief  of  the  sur\'iving  officers,  and  soldiers  of  the 
revolution,"  the  parties  provided  for  by  this  act,  embraced  four 
gentfral  classes,  i.  The  regular  troops.  2.  The  State  troops, 
miiitia,  and  volunteers.  3.  Persons  employed  in  the  naval  ser- 
vice. 4.  Indian  spies.  In  order  to  supply  the  information  in 
regard  to  their  services  by  which  a  test  could  be  made,  of  the 


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truth  of  the  statements  of  the  applicants,  they  were  compelled  to 
make  sworn  statements,  naming  the  officers  under  whom  they 
served;  giving  a  detail  account  of  their  services,  including  any 
battles  in  which  they  were  engaged,  and  generally  such  informa- 
tion as  would  enable  the  department  to  grant  the  pension.  These 
sworn  statements  were  forwarded  to  the  War  Department,  and 
are  on  file  there.  The  names  which  I  send  you  are  compiled 
from  copies  of  these  statements  which  are  in  my  possession. 

Yours  very  truly, 

•       J.  T.  McAllister. 
Warm  Springs,   Va.,  March  2isiy  i8gg. 


John  Alverman,  Private,  Culpeper;  Captn.  Arbuckle,  Green- 
brier; Adam  Abrogast,  P.,  Augusta;  Capt.  Arbuckle,  Botetourt; 
John  Allen,  P.,  Botetourt;  Augustine  Argenbright;  Captn.  All, 
Shenandoah;  Wm.  Armstrong. 

Col.  Wm.  Bowyer;  John  Bradshaw,  Ensign;  Captn.  Patrick 
Buchannan;  Col.  Buckner,  of  7th  Va. ;  Captn.  John  Burke,  Al- 
bemarle; Captn.  Jas.  Bamett,  Amherst;  Ballinger,  Amherst; 
Col.  Bland;  Col.  Barbour;  Captn.  Ambrose  Bohanon,  Culpepper; 
Captn.  Thos.  Baytop,  in  2nd  Va.  Regt.,  Gloucester;  Captn. 
George  Bill,  Hampshire;  Captn.  Garland  Burnley,  Orange; 
Jacob  Butte,  P.,  Prince  William;  Captn.  Micheal  Bowyer,  12th 
Va. ;  Captn.  Burleigh,  3rd  Va. ;  Col.  (or  Major)  Broadhead; 
Captn.  Bollar,  Botetourt;  Captn.  Thos.  Bowyer,  Botetourt; 
Jacob  Butte,  Botetourt;  (Major?)  Jos.  Bell,  Augusta;  Lt.-Col. 
Wm.  Bowyer;  Wm.  Buchannan,  Ensign;  Lt.  Chas.  Baskins; 
Lt.  Patrick  Buchannan;  Captn.  Buchannan;  Captn.  Jas.  Bell; 
Captn.  Michael  Bedinger;  Saml.  Bell,  Ensign,  i6th  Va.  Line; 
Captn.  Thomas  Bell;  Majr.  Thos.  Barlow;  Captn.  May  Button, 
Albemarle;  Captn.  Bellefield,  Orange;  Captn.  Jas.  Burton, 
Orange;  Captn.  Chas.  Bruce,  Orange;  Captn.  John  Beadles, 
Orange;  Capt.  Henrj'  Burke,  Albemarle. 

Col.  Richd.  Campbell:  Captn.  Cook,  Greenbrier;  Jacob  Crow, 
P.,  Hampshire;  Capt.  Coursey.  Orange;  Lt.  Neil  Cain,  Rock- 
ingham; John  Camper,  P.,  Shenandoah;  Capt.  Chrogue,  8th  Va. ; 
Richd.  Cole,  P.,  Augusta;  Captn.  Cooper,  Augusta;  Genrl. 
Wm.  Campbell;  Captn.  Cunningham,  Rockingham;  Captain 
John  Cook;  Lt.  John  Cartmill;  Captn.  John  Cartmill,  Botetourt; 


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Lt.  Henry  Cartmill,  Botetourt;  Henry  Cartmill,  Ensign,  Bote- 
tourt; Col.  Wra.  Campbell,  of  Militia;  General  Wm.  Campbell; 
Col.  Archibald  Campbell;  Col.  Wm.  Christian;  Captn.  John 
Cunningham,  Augusta;  Capt  Chas.  Cameron,  Augusta;  Capt. 
Wm.  Christian;  Col.  Campbell,  Rifle  Corps;  Lt.  John  Crawford; 

Alxr.  Crawford,  Ensign;  Capt.  Francis  Cowherd,  Orange;  

Claiborne,  Paymaster  of  Cavalry,  Continental;  James  Chiles, 
Orange;  Captn.  Coker,  Orange;  Captn.  Belfield  Cave,  Orange; 
Lt.  Bellefield  Cave;  Captn.  Cravens,  Orange;  Major  Carey. 

Col.  Dabney;  Captn.  DiUard,  Amherst;  Col.  Dickinson;  Col. 
Charles  E>abney;  Col.  J.  Dickinson,  Augusta;  Martin  Dilly,  P., 
Augusta;  Lt.  John  Dickey;  Col.  Daingerfield;  Jas.  Davis,  Au- 
gusta; Col.  Dandridge;  Sergt.  John  Diddle,  Augusta;  Col.  Dick; 
Col.  Chas.  Dabney,  Hanover;  James  Daniel;  William  Davis; 
Col.  Davis,  of  Militia;  John  Davis,  Orange;  Col.  Daingerfield, 
7th  Regt.  of  Continental  Line;  Captn.  Reuben  Daniel,  Orange. 

Capt.  Ewell,  (afterwards  Majr.)  Pr.  Wm. ;  Saml.  Estill  (after- 
wards Col.);  Lt.  Wallace  Estin,  or  Estill,  Botetourt;  Lt.  Charles 
Eides,  Amherst;  Col  Edmund. 

Lt.  Robert  Fitzhugh,  Culpepper;  Col.  Febinger;  Conrad 
Flesher,  P.;  Col.  Fields;  Captn.  Fontaine;  Captn.  Wm.  Finley, 
Augusta;  Christian  Fauber,  Shenandoah;  Wm.  Fisher,  Orange. 

Geo.  Green,  Botetourt;  Lt.  John  Galloway,  Botetourt;  Capt. 
Wm.  Grayson,  Albemarle;  Lt.  Wm.  Gooch,  Albemarle;  Lt 
Nathaniel  Garland,  Albemarle;  Col.  Gibson,  Virginia  State  Line; 
Col.  Saml.  Griefs;  Captn.  John  Gillison;  Captn.  John  Gwin, 
Augusta;  George  Gay,  P.,  Augusta;  Wm.  Green,  P.,  Augusta; 
Lt.  Joseph  Gwin,  Augusta;  Captn.  David  Gwin,  Augusta;  Col. 
ChurchhillGibbs;  James  Gay,  Ensign;  Captn.  Givens;  Col.  Wm. 
Grayson,  i6th  Va.  Regt.,  Va.  Line;  Lt.  John  Goodell,  Orange; 
Richard  Goodell,  Orange. 

Captn.  Benj.  Harris,  Albemarle;  Major  Hamilton;  Capt.  Henry 
Hill,  Culpepper;  Captn.  Moses  Hutton,  Hampshire  Co.;  Andrew 
Heath,  Ensign,  Hampshire;  Isaac  Hawks,  Ensign,  Hampshire; 
Col.  Benjmn.  Harrison,  Rockingham;  Col.  Heath;  Col.  Hays; 
Col.  Haws,  4th  Va. ;  Col.  Hughhart;  Capt.  John  Henderson, 
Greenbrier;  Capt.  Thos.  Hicklin,  Augusta;  Captn.  Peter  Hull, 
Augusta;  George  Hull;  Captn.  Hall,  Botetourt;  Captn.  Holstein, 
Botetourt;    Captn.    Alexr.    Handley,    Botetourt;   John   Hewitt, 


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Botetourt;  Genl.  Hand;  Captn.  Henderson,  Augusta;  Jonathon 
Humpreys,  Ensign;  Col.  Haws;  Captn.  Reuben  Hawkins,  Albe- 
marle; Captn.  John  HoUiday,  Spottsylvania;  ist.  Lt.  Zachariah 
Hendon. 

Lt.  Isaac  Islow,  Berkley;  Col.  James  Innis. 

Captn.  Gabriel  Jones,  Culpeper;  Captn.  Zacharaiah  Johnson, 
Augusta;  Thomas  Joplin,  Amherst;  Captn.  Benj.  Johnson, 
Orange;  Thomas  Jones,  Spottsylvania;  James  Jones,  Orange; 
Wm.  Jamell. 

Captn.  John  Kemp,  Culpeper;  Wm.  Keyser,  P.,  Gloucester; 
Jacob  Knave,  P.,  Hampshire;  Captn.  Wm.  Kincaid,  Augusta; 
George  Keller;  James  Kemp;  Lt.  Andrew  Kincaid;  L.  Kamey, 
Ensign. 

Captn.  Mark  Leake,  Albemarle;  Captn.  Laney;  Col.  Reuben 
Lindsey;  Captn.  Lansdale,  2nd  Va. ;  Captn.  Wm.  Long,  Au- 
gusta; Jacob  Lightner,  P.,  Augusta;  Sergt.  Jacob  Lemon;  Captn. 
Andrew  Lockridge,  Augusta;  Col.  Andrew  Lewis,  Augusta; 
Captn.  Charles  Lewis,  Augusta;  Captn.  John  Lewis,  Augusta; 
Col.  John  Lewis,  Augusta;  Col.  Saml.  Lewis,  Augusta;  Col. 
Saml.  Lewis,  Botetourt;  Captn.  Joseph  Looney,  Botetourt; 
Captn.  Hugh  Logan,  Botetourt;  Col.  Lee;  Major  Patrick  Lock- 
hart;  Captn.  John  Lyle,  Augusta;  Captn.  Francis  Long;  Major 
Long;  Lt.  James  Long;  Joseph  Long,  Ensign;  Lt.  Edward  Lu- 
cas; Lt.  William  Lucas;  Captn.  Wm.  Little;  Major  Lomax;  Col. 
Richd.  Lindsey,  ist.  Regiment,  Genl.  Lawsons  Brigade,  Albe- 
marle. 

Col.  Mallery,  Albemarle;  Col.  Morraw;  Captn.  Ambrose 
Madison,  Orange;  Col.  Peter  Mugenbird,  8th  Va. ;  Captn.  Geo. 
Moffett,  Augusta;  Colo.  John  Moflfett;  Col.  Sampson  Mathews, 
Augusta;  Wm.  Mann,  P.,  Augusta;  Captn.  Geo.  Mathews, 
Augusta;  Captn.  John  Morrison,  Captn.  Morrison,  Ensign 
Richard  Madison,  Col.  Geo.  Moffett,  General  Mullenburg, 
Captn.  Wm.  Morgan  (afterwards  made  Major),  Captn.  Chas. 
Morrow,  Col.  John  Morrow,  Col.  Merriwether;  Captn.  Francis 
Moore,  Orange;  Col.  Mathews,  3rd  Va.  Regt.  Militia;  Col. 
Thos.  Mathews;  Robt.  Mansfield,  Albemarle;  Majr.  Mcllhaney, 
General  Mcintosh;  John  McGloughlin,  P.,  Rockingham: 
Captn.  Saml.  McCutcheon,  Augusta;  Captn.  McBerry,  Augusta; 
Col.  John  McCreer>';  Capto.  John  McCoy,  Augusta;  Col.  Mc- 


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S«<*T»    M^,C  *rT    >ti:*vr  SamL  McL>o-»etI.  Orderiy  Srgt.  McWfl- 

^>^.r!,  or  O/i,,  Wlv/n.  Lt.  Coi.  Jcf&etb  Ne;eil:  Capcn.  Ne- 
v.U  Sc^^^nd^^h:  ^j^j.  X^rarnxan  enli-ted  ^J^  three  years*, 
(n^r,'^^:  (lit\j^t\.  N>lv>o,  Orange;  Mi;  ^r  Neiaoc,  7th  Reijt.  Con- 

i\Uf-r,r;%\  Lint. 

(li%\,tt\.  Famplin,  Amhet^:  Lt.   Robt.  Perdue    ?•.  Culpepper: 

C^\An.  Parker;  J«^r»^h  Payne,  En>^?n.  of  9th  Va.;  Captn. 

Alxr,  Parkfrr,  of  8th  Va. ;  Captn.  John  Poage:  Captn.  \Vm. 
P;itrkk,  Aujfusta;  Hazel  Patrick;  CoL  Chas.  Porterlield,  Q.  M. 
f/z-TiI,  of  \a-  State  Line;  Col.  Phillip  Pendleton;  Ll  Thomas 
Porffr, 

('oL  fjuarles,  Major  Quaiies. 

firnl.  Rii-^sHl,  Major  John  Roberts;  Captn.  Beverly  Roy, 
Rockinjifham;  Captn.  Thos.  Ransdale,  4th  Va. ;  Captn.  Wni. 
RoU-rtv>n;  C!!aptn.  James  Robinson,  Botetourt;  Col.  Russell, 
Captn,  Thomas  Rankin,  Captn.  Alxr.  Robertson,  Major  Allen 
KoU'rtson,   C^ptn.    Chas.    Russell,  Wm.    Rose,    Major   Alexr. 

RolxTtson,  Major  Rucker,   Col.  Richardson;  Major 

Roberts,  Va.  Line;  Wm.  Roach;  Absolom  Roach,  Orange; 
Phil('mr)n  Richards,  Orange;  Ambrose  Richards,  Madison;  Col. 
Holt  Richardson. 

C'aptn.  Stuart,  Amherst;  Captn.  Josiah  Swearingen,  Berkley; 
Lt.  Peter  Stubblefield,  Culpeper;  Captn.  Slaughter,  Culpeper; 
Col.  .Skillern,  Botetourt;  Captn.  John  Scott,  Orange;  Captn. 
Wm.  Smith,  Rockingham;  Captn.  Daniel  Smith,  Rockingham; 
C?ol.  Stei)hens;  Captn.  Smith  Snead,  of  9th  Va. ;  Robert  Sit- 
tlington;  Captn.  Thomas  Smith;  John  Simmons;  Wm.  Sharp; 
John  Stuart,  Augusta;  James  StUart,  Augusta;  Ensign  Edward 
Stuart,  Augusta;  Captn.  James  Smith,  Botetourt;  Lt.-Col. 
Alexr.  Scott;  Ensign  James  Steele;  Granville  Smith;  Col. 
Strieker;  Ensign  Thomas  Swearingen;  Ensign  Suel;  Captn. 
Stump,  of  Light  Infantry;  Lt.  Wm.  Smith,  Amherst;  Captn. 
David  Shelton;  Col.  Alxr.  Spottswood,  2nd  Va.  Rgt.  Continen- 
tal Establishment;  John  Snow,  Orange;  Kenneth  Southerlin, 
Albemarle;   John    Smith,   Spotsylvania;  Col.    Joseph    Spencer; 


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Captn.  John  Suit,  Orange;  Captn.  Spencer,  Orange;  Captn. 
Joseph  Spencer,  in  7th  Va.  Regiment.  Orange;  Col.  Stubble- 
field;  Lt  Benj.  Smith,  Orange. 

Col.  Toles;  Captn.  Tucker,  Amherst;  Col.  Taylor;  Col.  James 
Taylor;  Lt.-Col.  Francis  Taylor;  Col.  Taylor,  3rd  Va. ;  Ensign 
James  Trimble,  Augusta;  Captn.  Tate;  Captn.  John  Tate;  Lt. 
Tosh,  Botetourt;  Captn.  James  Trimble,  Augusta;  John  Thomp- 
son, Augusta;  Smith  Thompson,  Augusta;  Lt.  Thornberry; 
Capt.  Richd.  Taliaferro,  Amherst;  ist  Lt.  \Vm.  Taylor,  Orange; 
Captn.  Francis  Taylor;  Ensign  John  Taylor,  Orange;  Zach. 
Taylor,  Orange;  Francis Tackett,  Orange;  Col.  Temple,  Orange. 

Capt.  Vance,  Augusta ;  Col.  Saml.  Vance,  Augusta ;  Lt.  Saml. 
Vance,  of  Augusta;  Captn.  Saml.  Vance,  Augusta;  Lt.  Wm. 
Vestil. 

Lt.  Adam  Wallace,  7th  Va. ;  Captn.  Danl.  White,  Albemarle; 
Orderly  Sergt.  Faulton  Woodson,  Albemarle;  Lt.  West  Wade, 
Hampshire;  Jacob  Ware,  P.,  Hampshire;  Captn.  Adam  Wallace, 
Rockingham;  Lt.-Col.  Wallace;  Captn.  Jacob  Wrinker,  Shen- 
andoah; Col.  James  Wood,  12th  Va. ;  Captn.  Saml.  Woodson, 
9th  Va. ;  Col.  Williams;  Ralph  Wanless,  P.,  Augusta;  John 
Wilson,  P.,  Augusta;  Captn.  Jacob  Wan^ick,  Augusta;  Thos. 
Wright,  Ensign,  Augusta;  Major  John  Wilson;  John  Williams, 
Ensign,  Augusta;  Captn.  Mathews  Wilson,  Botetourt;  Fiatt 
Wysong,  Botetourt;  Lt.  Andrew  Wallace,  Botetourt;  Lt.  Wood, 
Botetourt;  Saml.  Walker,  Ensign,  Botetourt;  Major  Wm.  Wil- 
son; Col.  Willis;  Alexr.  Williams;  Captn.  Saml.  Wilson;  Abra- 
ham Weitzel,  Shenandoah;  Major  Welch,  2nd  Va.  Militia; 
Theophilus  Wyatt,  Hanover;  Richard  Wyatt;  Lt.  (or  Ensign) 
John  Wackub;  Lt.  Jacob  Warwick;  Lt.  Wilson;  Lt.  Adrian 
Wincoop;  Lt.  John  Woodruff,  Amherst;  Capt.  Richard  Well, 
Orange;  Captn.  Warr,  Albemarle;  Adj.  Whitlock,  Spottsylvania; 
Lt.  Geo.  War,  Orange;  Lt.  (Corporal)  Richard  White,  Orange; 
Starke  Wright,  Louisa;  Captn.  John  Waugh,  Orange;  Jeremiah 
White.  Orange;  Lt.  Richard  White,  Orange;  Lt.  Wm.  White, 
Orange;  Captn.   Geo.  Waugh;  Sergt.  John  Williams,  Orange. 

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Fourth  Paper— Contributed  by  J.  B.  Henneman. 


[concluded.] 


185.  1895  (resigned).     Col.  George  Tait,  of  Norfolk. 

186.  1896  .     Judge  Asa  Dickinson  Watkins,  of  Prince 

Edward.  Class  of  '78.  County  judge.  Member  of  House  of 
Delegates.  Great-great-grandson  of  6,  9,  25;  great-grandson  of 
12,  21,  35;  grandson  of  54;  son  of  104;  named  for  112. 

187.  1896  .  Judge  James  Lewis  Tredway,  of  Pittsyl- 
vania. Class  of  '74.  Member  of  Senate.  County  Judge. 
Kinsman  (?)  of  90,  132,  148. 

188.  1896  .     Rev.  William  Creighton  Campbell,  D. 

D.,  of  Roanoke.     Class  of  '76. 

189.  1896  .     Joseph  Thompson  McAllister,  of  Warm 

Springs.     Class  of  ^89. 

190.  1897  .    Dr.  Peter  Winston,  of  Farmville.    Class 

of  '58.     Surgeon,  C.  S.  A. 

191.  1897   .     Walter  G.    Dunnington,   of    '*  Poplar 

Hill,*'  Prince  Edward.     Married  to  kinswoman  of  82,  112,  139. 

192.  1897    .       Archibald    Alexander    Campbell,    of 

Wytheville.     Class  of '79.     Named  for  39. 

193.  1897  .     Hon.   Edward   Carrington   Venable,   of 

Petersburg,  vice  Captain  Samuel  W.  Venable  (his  father).  Mem- 
ber of  Congress,  1889.  Great-great-grandson  of  6,  9,  25;  great- 
grandson  of  21,  41;  grandson  of  74;  son  of  145;  nephew  of  168 
and  of  Prof.  Charles  Scott  Venable,  of  the  College  (1846- 1855), 
now  of  the  University  of  Virginia;  kinsman  of  numerous  Vena- 
able,  Carrington,  Read,  Scott  and  Watkins,  members  of  Board, 
from  above  relationships. 

194.  1898  .     Cleon  Moore,  of  Charles  Town,  West 

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CORRECTIONS  AND  ADDITIONS. 

Page  174.     6.  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  the  elder,  great-grand - 

fether  of  the  wives  of  95  {not  65),  loi as  is  correctly  stated 

under  9,  page  175. 

Page  175.  12.  Francis  Watkins,  great-grandfather  of  the 
wives  of  156  {not  142)  and  Prof.  L.  L.  Holladay  of  the  College. 

Page  177.  23.  Col.  William  Morton,  cousin  {not  uncle)  of 
36,  as  is  correctly  stated  under  36. 

Page  178.  35.  John  B.  Scott,  great-grandfather  of  186  {not 
182). 

Page  181.     53.  Wm.  L.  Venable,  cousin,  of  38  {not  ^g). 

Page  181.  61.  Dr.  Wm.  S.  Morton's  long  term  of  service 
has  been  surpassed  by  that  of  the  present  senior  member  of  the 
board,  Robert  C.  Anderson.     See  iii. 

Page  182.  64.  John  P.  Wilson,  father-in-law  of  a  brother  of 
166  {not  of  166  himself,) 

Page  182.  67.  Wm.  A.  Carrington,  nephew  of  42,  75  {not 
72).     Correctly  stated  under  76,  85,  loi. 

Page  184.  88.  Isaac  Read  was  of  the  **  class  of  *25,''  and 
not  R.  N.  Venable,  as  might  appear  from  the  punctuation. 

108.  (Dr.  Wm.  H.  Patillo.)  Add:  wife  was  cousin  of  115 
and  of  second  wife  of  89. 

115.  (Col.  Travis  H.  Epes.)  Add:  brother  of  second  wife 
of  89,  cousin  of  wife  of  108. 

125.  (Dr.  Moses  D.  Hoge.)  Add  under  Rev.  Wm.  J.  Hoge, 
D.  D.  Also  one  of  the  Directors  of  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary, 1861.  Add  under  Rev.  Peyton  H.  Hoge,  D.  D.  Also 
Member  of  Board  of  Union  Theological  Seminary. 

After  129,  same  as  89  (Theoderick  Pryor.)  Add:  First  wife 
was  cousin  of  79,  and  of  President  John  M.  P.  Atkinson,  of  the 
College ;  second  wife  was  sister  of  115;  and  third  wife  was  kins- 
woman of  98. 

Additional  Notes  to  the  Statements  in  the  October 
Number,  Vol.  VI,  Pages  174-184. 

4.  Caleb  Wallace.  Caleb  Wallace  removed  from  the 
Charlotte  churches  to  the  western  part  of  Virginia,  probably 
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Liberty  Hall  Academy,  now  Washington  and  Lee  University,  in 
1782.  About  this  time  occurred  his  further  westward  removal 
to  Kentucky,  of  which  State  he  became  Supreme  Judge.  His 
Life  has  been  written  by  the  Rev.  Wm.  H.  Whitsitt,  D.  D.,  in 
the  Filson  Club  (Kentucky)  Publications. 

5.  Peter  Johnston.  The  trustee's  son,  Judge  Peter  John- 
ston, Jr.,  was  a  student  in  the  early  sessions  of  the  college,  but 
hurried  off  to  the  Revolutionary  War,  attaching  himself  to  Light 
Horse  Harry  Lee's  command.  Peter  Johnson,  Jr.,  was  after- 
wards repeatedly  a  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from 
Prince  Edward,  and  became  later  Judge  of  the  General  Court. 
He  was  the  father  of  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston  of  the  Confed- 
eracy, the  latter  being  born  at  the  old  homestead,  **  Longwood," 
in  Prince  Edward.  See  Great  Commanders  Series:  Gen.  Jos. 
E.  Johnston,  by  Robert  M.  Hughes.  **  Longwood  "  passed  into 
the  possession  of  74,  Nathaniel  E.  Venable,  and  145,  168,  and 
Prof.  Chas.  S.  V^enable,  were  born  there. 

6.  Judge  Paul  Carrington,  THE  ELDER.  To  the  numerous 
relationships  already  indicated,  add:  Uncle  of  55;  grandfather 
of  the  wife  of  50  and  126;  great-grandfather  of  126  and  of  the 
wife  of  1 12;  great-great-grandfather  of  142  and  of  the  wife  of  151. 

10.  Thomas  Read.  Thomas  Read  was  the  first  clerk  of  Char- 
lotte after  the  county  was  set  oft*  from  Lunenburg,  from  1765 
until  his  death  in  18 17.     Frederick  Johnston  in  his  Memorials  of 

Virginia  Clerks  says  of  the  Charlotte  courts:  '*  The  county 
court  was  held  by  justices  who  had  no  superiors  in  a  State  whose 
chief  ornament  was  her  magistracy.  The  orders  are  signed  by 
such  men  as,  Clement  Carrington  (42),  Henry  A.  Watkins  (59), 
William  M.  Watkins  (48),  Henry  Carrington  (75)  and  James  P. 
Marshall  (92),  as  presiding  justices." 

11.  James  Venable.  James  Venable  removed  later  with  his 
family  to  Kentucky,  following  some,  perhaps  preceding  others. 
His  son,  38,  Judge  Joseph  Venable,  migrated  about  1810  and 
located  in  Shelby ville.  James  Venable  and,  27,  Joel  Watkins 
were  brothers-in-law,  they  having  married  sisters  of  23,  40.  A 
son-in-law  of  James  Venable  was  the  Rev.  William  Mahon,  tutor 
in  the  College  about  1 782-1 784.  W.  Douglass  Morton,  tutor  in 
the  College  1863-4,  was  a  great-grandson  of  11,  and  Dr.  Waller 


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Morton  HoUaday,  physician  to  the  College,  1886-1894  (son  of 
Prof.  Lewis  Littlepage  Holladay,  1855-1891),  is  a  great-great- 
grandson  of  II. 

21,  33i  37,  33.  Samuel  W.  Venable,  Abraham  B.  Ven- 
ABLE,  Richard  N.  Venable,  Joseph  Venable.  These  three 
sons  and  a  nephew  of  9,  Nathaniel  Venable,  were  all  students  at 
Hampden-Sidney  College,  saw  service  in  the  Revolutionary  war, 
it  is  said,  and  then  completed  their  education  at  Princeton.  Be- 
fore the  charter  of  1783  no  degrees  were  given  at  Hampden- 
Sidney,  and  for  some  years  after  1783  it  was  popular  for 
Hampden-Sidney  graduates  to  go  to  Princeton  one  additional 
year,  receiving  as  well  their  degree  from  that  institution.  Hamp- 
den-Sidney was  modelled  upon  Princeton.  All  the  first  teachers 
in  1775-1776  were  Princeton  graduates;  the  first  president,  Rev. 
Samuel  Stanhope  Smith,  class  of  1769,  and  his  assistants — Rev. 
John  Blair  Smith  (his  brother),  class  of  1773;  David  Wither- 
spoon  (his  brother-in-law),  class  of  1774;  Rev.  Samuel  Doak, 
class  of  1775;  Rev.  John  Springer,  class  of  1775.  [Later  tutors 
from  Princeton  were  Rev.  William  Mahon,  class  of  1782;  Rev. 
David  Wiley,  class  of  1788;  Rev.  William  Shields  Reid,  class 
of  1802.  Very  much  later  were  David  Comfort,  '26;  Richard 
Sterling,  '35;  Wm.  A.  Seay,  '50.]  Also  among  the  first  seven- 
teen trustees  named  in  1775  five  were  Princeton  men:  2,  Rev. 
John  Todd,  class  of  1749;  13,  Rev.  David  Rice,  class  of  1761; 
3,  Rev.  Samuel  Leake,  class  of  1764;  4,  Rev.  Caleb  Wallace, 
class  of  1770;  17,  James  Madison,  Jr.,  class  of  1771.  Naturally 
when  the  Rev.  Samuel  Stanhope  Smith  returned  to  Princeton  in 
1779  to  accept  the  professorship  of  moral  philosophy  and  later  to 
become  president,  owing  to  his  strong  personality  a  number  of 
Hampden-Sidney  and  Virginia  students  followed  him.  The  very 
first  to  do  so  were  the  three  sons  and  the  nephew  of  Nathaniel 
Venable,  9,  Smith's  warm  friend  and  hearty  supporter  in  Vir- 
ginia. Of  the  many  Virginians  at  Princeton  in  the  years  follow- 
ing 1779,  those  who  are  known  to  be  Hampden-Sidney  students 
are  named — Class  of  1780:  Samuel  W.  Venable,  21;  Abraham 
B.  Venable,  33.  Class  of  178;:  William  Branch  Giles  (U.  S. 
Senator  and  Governor  of  Virginia).  Class  of  1782:  Richard  N. 
Venable,  37.  Class  of  1783:  Joseph  Venable,  38.  Class  of  1787: 
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Class  of  1 791:  Henry  Callaway,  Robert  Callaway,  graduates  of 
Hampden-Sidney  the  year  before.  Class  of  1792:  George  M. 
Bibb  (U.  S.  Senator,  judge  of  Supreme  Court  and  chancellor  in 
Kentucky,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President  Tyler), 
and  William  Morton  Watkins,  48,  both  graduates  of  Hampden- 
Sidney  the  year  previous.  Class  of  1796:  Nathaniel  Venable. 
[The  Princeton  catalogue  and  S.  D.  Alexander's  Princeton  Col- 
lege During  the  Eighteenth  Centnry  declare  him  a  trustee  of 
Hampden-Sidney  College.  But  is  not  this  a  confusion  with  9, 
Nathaniel  Venable,  the  elder,  trustee  in  1775,  charter  member 
in  1783,  and  indeed  member  until  his  death  in  1804  (?)?]  Class 
of  1 801 :  Henry  Edward  Watkins,  54,  who  was  at  all  the  colleges 
then  in  Virginia  (at  Hampden-Sidney  in  the  Southside,  a  few 
miles  from  his  home,  at  Washington  in  the  Valley,  and  at  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  in  the  Tidewater  section),  as  well  as  at  Princeton. 
Class  of  1814:  Henry  Carrington,  75  (class  of  181 1  at  Hampden- 
Sidney),  and  John  Blair  Dabney  (writer  on  public  questions). 
Class  of  181 5:  Rev.  Daniel  Baker  (missionary  in  Texas). 

Several  later  members  of  the  Hampden-Sidney  boards  were 
Princeton  men:  70,  Rev.  William  Shields  Reid,  D.  D.,  class  of 
1802;  79,  Rev.  William  Mayo  Atkinson,  D.  D.,  class  of  1814; 
[Rev.  William  Jessup  Armstrong,  D.  D.,  class  of  1816,  member 
of  Board  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1 827-1 836;  Hon. 
Abraham  Watkins  Venable,  member  of  Congress  from  North 
Carolina  (also  Hampden-Sidney  graduate),  member  of  Board  of 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  1 831-1844];  95,  David  Comfort, 
class  of  1826  (two  classmates  were  Rev.  Joseph  Addison  Alex- 
ander, D.  D.,  son  of  39,  and  Augustus  Lockman  Warner,  M. 
D.,  professor  in  the  Hampden-Sidney  Medical  College  in  Rich- 
mond, 1838);  128,  Rev.  George  Dod  Armstrong,  D.  D.,  class 
of  '32;  107,  Rev.  John  Leyburn,  D.  D.,  class  of  '33;  [Rev. 
Joseph  Mayo  Atkinson,  D.  D.,  class  of  '41,  member  of  Board 
of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1866 — also  a  former  student  of 
Hampden-Sidney;  Rev.  Charles  White,  D.  D.,  class  of  '47, 
pastor  of  the  College  Church,  and  member  of  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  1869-1891;  Rev.  Henry  Carrington 
Alexander,  D.  D.,  class  of  '54,  member  of  board  1 867-1 869, 
and  professor  in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1 869-1 891,  and 
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27.  Joel  Watkins.  Member  of  the  House  of  Delegates, 
1 78 1.  Grandfather  of  wife  of  156,  like  12.  Also  great-great- 
grandfather (?)  of  162,  163. 

36.  James  Morton.  One  of  the  original  Members  of  the 
Board  of  the  Theological  Seminary  founded  by  his  son-in-law, 
Dr.  John  Holt  Rice  (51).  Another  son-in-law  the  Rev.  James 
Wharey,  was  the  first  separate  Pastor  of  the  College  Church, 
1 820- 1 822,  this  office  having  been  filled  hitherto  by  the  Presidents 
of  the  College,  just  as  in  early  Princeton.  A  son  of  James 
Wharey  was  the  Rev.  Thomas  Wharey,  Instructor  in  the  college, 
1852-4,  and  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1 859-1 860,  and  Prin- 
cipal of  Prince  Edward  Academy,  1881-1883 — a  Preparatory 
School  to  the  College,  located  at  the  old  Court  House,  Worsham. 
A  daughter  of  James  Wharey  was  married  to  the  Rev.  Halbert 
G.  Hill,  D.  D.,  of  North  Carolina,  member  of  the  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  from  1872. 

37.  Richard  N.  Venable.  He  lived  for  a  time  at  what  had 
been  his  grandfather*s  place,  **  Slate  Hill,'*  in  Prince  Edward, 
and  which  is  still  the  home  of  descendants.  Brother-in-law  of 
71  (they  married  sisters,  daughters  of  23).  A  son-in-law,  the 
Rev.  James  H.  C.  Leach,  D.  D.,  was  member  of  the  Board  of 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  1 830-1 838,  and  its  Secretary, 
1831-1838. 

41.  Charles  Scott.  His  wife  was  the  neice  of  10,  and 
sister  of  49,  cousin  of  42,  46,  and  consequent  relationships.  His 
fether  by  a  second  marriage  became  the  step-father  of  the  son's 
wife. 

42,  46.  Clement  Carrington,  Paul  Carrington,  the 
YOUNGER.  They  were  both  students  at  the  College  in  its  first 
years,  leaving  in  order  to  participate  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Cousins  of  49,  55,  of  wife  of  41,  and  consequent  relationships. 

49.  Isaac  Read.  Brother  of  wife  of  41,  cousin  of  42,  46, 
uncle  of  74,  and  consequent  relationships.  Also  brother  of  the 
Rev.  Clement  Read,  member  of  Board  of  the  Theological  Sem- 
inary, 1824. 

51.  Rev.  John  Holt  Rice,  D.  D.  Dr.  Rice  was  tutor  in 
the  college,  1 796-1 799,  1 800-1 804,  and  received  the  A.  M.  degree 
in  1808.  He  became  the  Pastor  of  **Cub  Creek"  and  other 
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College.  During  this  time  he  was  continually  engaged  in  urging 
and  collecting  subscriptions  towards  the  Theological  Seminary 
to  be  at  Hampden-Sidney.  His  removal  to  Richmond  as  Pastor 
did  not  interrupt  these  plans,  and  in  1823-4  he  was  back  in  Prince 
Edward,  with  the  building  of  the  Seminary  at  last  an  assured 
fact,  which  he  located  immediately  adjoining  the  College.  The 
first  Board  of  Trustees  comprised  twelve,  of  whom  ten  had  some 
connection  with  the  College:  Rev.  William  S.  Reid,  D.  D.,  of 
Lynchburg  (No.  70);  Rev.  Clement  Read,  of  Charlotte,  graduate 
of  the  College,  nephew  of  10  and  brother  of  49  and  of  the  wife 
of  41 ;  Rev.  John  Blair  Hoge,  of  Richmond,  tutor  in  the  College 
1808,  and  son  of  Dr.  Moses  Hoge,  the  elder.  President  of  the 
College  (see  125);  Rev.  Benjamin  Holt  Rice,  D.  D.,  of  Peters- 
burg, brother  of  51,  brother-in-law  of  39,  and  later  Pastor  of  the 
College  Church,  1847-1856,  dying  in  his  pulpit;  Rev.  John  Kirk- 
patrick  of  Cumberland,  class  of  181 2,  married  to  granddaughter 
(?)  of  9,  and  thus  connected  with  21,  33,  37,  38,  53,  etc.;  Rev. 
Matthew  Lyle,  of  Prince  Edward  (44);  Col.  James  Madison,  of 
Prince  Edward  (66);  Moses  Tred way,  of  Prince  Edward,  kins- 
man (?)  of  90,  132,  148,  187;  Maj.  James  Morton,  of  Prince 
Edward  (36);  and  Dr.  Wm.  S.  Morton,  of  Prince  Edward  (61). 
The  last  two  were  the  father-in-law  and  the  brother-in  law  respec- 
tively of  Dr.  Rice,  and  his  efforts  were  always  strongly  seconded 
by  theirs,  through  the  brother.  Rev.  Benjamin  H.  Rice,  who  was 
married  to  a  sister  of  Dr.  Alexander;  Archibald  Alexander  and 
John  Holt  Rice  were  connected.  Rev.  John  Holt  Rice,  D.  D., 
was  one  of  the  Directors  of  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
1819-1825,  and  his  brother,  Rev.  Benjamin  Holt  Rice,  D.  D., 
the  same,  1 833-1 848.  Dr.  John  H.  Rice  declined  the  Presidency 
of  Princeton  College  in  1823,  in  order  to  found  the  Theological 
Seminary  in  Virginia,  at  Hampden-Sidney,  the  same  year. 

54.  Henry  Edward  Watkins.  See  note  under  21  for  his 
Princeton  course.  In  addition  to  relationships  noted,  he  was 
father  of  the  wife  of  Prof  Charles  Martin,  LL.  D.,  of  the  Col- 
lege, 1847-1871;  in  1856,  presiding  officer  as  senior  member  of 
the  faculty  in  absence  of  a  president.  Brother  of  wife  of  87. 
Father  of  Samuel  W.  Watkins,  tutor  in  the  college,  1840. 
Henry  E.  Watkins  lived  at  what  is  popularly  known  as  the 
**  Watkins'   Place,"  on  the  road  from  the  college  to  Farmville. 


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Here  he  seems  to  have  gathered  about  him,  at  different  times, 
students  of  the  law,  amongst  others,  Judge  Powhatan  Ellis,  of 
Mississippi,  and  the  Rev.  John  Blair  Hoge.  Treasurer  of  Board 
of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1827. 

55.  William  H.  Cabell.  Nephew  of  6,  cousin  of  42,  46, 
75,  and  consequent  relationships. 

60.  William  S.  Lacv.  He  became  a  clergyman,  like  his  father 
(47),  and  one  of  his  brothers.  This  brother,  also  named  for  his 
father  (47),  Rev.  Drury  Lacy,  D.  D.,  graduated  at  the  College 
in  1822,  was  member  of  the  Board  of  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary, 1 837-1 864,  being  twice  the  president  of  the  board,  1847- 
1858,  1861-1863;  further,  was  President  of  Davidson  College, 
N.  C,  1 855-1 861.  Another  descendant  of  47,  Rev.  William 
Sterling  Lacy,  D.  D. ,  is  a  present  member  of  the  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  Rev.  Wm.  Sterling  Lacy,  D.  D.,  is 
grandson  of  47,  and  son  of  Rev.  Drury  Lacy,  D.  D. ,  President 
of  Davidson  College,  etc. 

61.  Dr.  William  S.  Morton.  Member  of  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  1823-1827,  1844-1848.     See  under  51. 

62.  James  H.  Fitzgerald.  Member  of  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  1 827-1 830. 

63.  Carter  Page.  His  son,  William  Nelson  Page,  besides 
being  professor  in  the  College,  was  member  of  the  Board  of  Un- 
ion Theological  Seminary,  1 827-1 834,  and  its  Secretary,  1828- 
1830. 

70.  Rev.  William  S.  Reid.  Member  of  the  Board  of 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  1824,  and  1 829-1 834. 

71.  Henry  N.  Watkins.  Brother-in-law  of  37,  they  hav- 
ing married  sisters,  daughters  of  23.  His  son-in-law,  the  Rev. 
Elisha  Ballantyne,  was  also  principal  of  a  classical  school  at 
Prince  Edward  C.  H.  (now  Worsham),  and  founded  the  chapel 
there.  He  declined  the  professorship  of  languages  in  the  Col- 
lege in  1846,  and  later  was  professor  in  his  alma  mater,  the 
University  of  Ohio,  at  Athens,  and  later  still,  in  the  University 
of  Indiana.  A  son,  the  Rev.  William  G.  Ballantyne,  D.  D., 
LL.  D.,  was,  until  recently.  President  of  Oberlin  College,  Ohio. 

74.  Nathaniel  E.  Venable.  Officer  in  the  War  of  181 2. 
Brother  of  Hon.  Abraham  Watkins  Venable,  member  of  Con- 
gress from  North  Carolina,  who  was  member  of  the  Board  of 


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Union  Theological  Seminary,  1831-1844.  Nephew  of  49;  cousin 
of  88,  161,  and  of  wives  of  95,  loi,  and  consequent  reladon- 
ships.  Brother  of  wives  of  48,  49,  54,  70,  and  consequent  rela- 
tionships. 

79.  William  Mayo  Atkinson.  William  Mayo  Atkinson 
was  the  oldest  of  several  brothers  connected  with  the  College. 
Three  were  students  at  the  College:  Bishop  Thomas  Atkinson, 
of  North  Carolina;  President  John  Mayo  Pleasants  Atkinson,  of 
the  College  (1857-1883);  and  Rev.  Joseph  Mayo  Atkinson, 
member  of  Board  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1866.  Wm. 
M.  Atkinson  was  at  first  a  lawyer,  and  became  a  clergyman  in 
1833,  being  pastor  at  Winchester,  1 839-1 846.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1827- 
1829,  1840-1842.  A  cousin.  Dr.  Thomas  P.  Atkinson,  was 
member  of  the  Board  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  1827- 
1828,  1832-1834,  and  it  was  the  sister  of  the  latter  who  was  the 
first  wife  of  Rev.  Theodorick  Pryor,  89. 

81.  Samuel  C.  Anderson.  Member  of  Board  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  1832-1841.     Kinsman  (?)  of  iii,  118. 

82.  Asa  Dupuy.  Officer  in  the  war  of  181 2.  Presiding 
Justice  of  Prince  Edward. 

84.  James  Caskie.  Member  of  Board  of  Union  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  1 827-1 838. 

87.  James  D.  Wood.  Treasurer  of  Board  of  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  1828-1845;  also  Treasurer  of  College  Board. 
Brother-in-law  of  54. 


THE  NEW  GOVERNMENT  FOR  VIRGINIA,  1624. 


[Abstract  from  English  Public  Records — By  W.  N.  Sainsbury.] 


[After  the  revocation  of  the  charter  of  the  Virginia  Company, 
King  James  took  the  government  of  the  colony  into  his  own 
hands.  He  continued  Wyatt  as  governor;  but  appointed  a 
commission  to  take  into  consideration  a  new  form  of  government 
for  Virginia.  The  colonists  were  greatly  alarmed  lest  the  in- 
fluence of  the  much  hated  Sir  Thomas  Smythe  should  prevail 


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under  the  new  regime,  and  there  can  hardly  be  a  doubt  that  this 
would  have  been  the  case,  and  that  James  would  also  have  with- 
drawn the  right  of  local  legislation;  but  the  death  of  the  King 
in  March,  and  that  of  Smythe  in  September,  1625,  with  the  in- 
creasing political  and  religious  troubles  in  England  prevented 
the  changes  which  were  so  much  feared.  The  appointment  of 
governors  and  councillors  remained  immediately  in  the  crown ; 
but  Charles  I  recognized  the  House  of  Burgesses,  and  the  rights 
of  legislation,  and  especially  of  self  taxation  were  never  seriously 
interfered  with  until  the  period  of  the  Stamp  Act.] 

Sir  Francis  Nethersole  to  Sir  Dudley  Carleton. 

1624,  July  3,  London. 

Sir  F.  Nethersole  to  Sir  Dudley  Carleton : 

There  is  a  commission  of  Privy  Councillors  and  others  ap- 
pointed to  advise  upon  a  fit  Patent  to  be  given  to  the  Company 
of  Virginia,  that  they  had  last  being  overthrown  by  a  Quo  War- 
ranto, the  last  day  of  the  term.  The  reformation  intended  as  I 
hear,  is  that  there  shall  be  a  company  for  trade  but  not  for  gov- 
ernment of  the  country  which  his  Maj.  will  take  care  (of)  by 
such  orders  as  shall  be  made  by  him,  by  the  advice  of  those 
Commiss"  and  of  his  Privy  Council,  and  this  to  avoid  the  faction 
(which)  hath  grown  in  the  company,  upon  that  occasion  the  pop- 
ulamess  of  the  government  having  been  also  otherwise  displeas- 
ing to  his  Maj.  Hears  speech  also  of  a  great  army  of  100  men 
to  be  sent  thither,  being  esteemed  sufficient  against  the  Indians 
to  secure  the  Inhabitants,  without  distracting  them  from  their 
labors  as  they  are  now. 

(Extract  from  Domestic  Corres,,  James  /,  Vol.  169,  No.  14.) 


The  Royal  Commission,  1624. 

[This  document  is  printed  in  full  in  Rymer*s  Foedera,  but  as 
this  work  is  practically  inaccessible  to  most  of  the  readers  of  this 
Magazine,  a  very  full  abstract  of  this  important  paper  is  published 
here.  It  may  be  well  to  state  here  that  the  abstracts  made  by 
Mr.  Sainsbury  for  the  State  of  Virginia,  are  much  fuller  than 
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in  no  instance  less  than  one-third  larger,  and  frequently  of  con- 
siberably  greater  extent.] 

1624,  July  15,  Westminster. 

The  King's  commission  to  Henry  Viscount  Mandeville,  Lord 
President  of  the  Council,  Wm.  Lord  Paget,  Anthony  Lord 
Chichester,  Sir  Thos.  Edmonds,  Sir  John  Suckling,  Sir  Geo. 
Calvert,  Sir  Edward  Conway,  Sir  Richard  Western,  Sir  Ju- 
lius Ceasar,  Sir  Hunphrew  May.  Sir  Saville  Hicks,  Sir. 
Thomas  Smith,  Sir  Henry  Mildmay,  Sir  Thomas  Coventry, 
Sir  Robert  Heath, .  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  Sir  Robert 
Kiligrew,  Sir  Charles  Montague,  Sir  Philip  Carew,  Sir 
Francis  Goston,  Sir  Thomas  Wroth,  Sir  John  Wolsten- 
holme.  Sir  Nath.  Rich.  Sir  Samuel  Argall,  Sir  Hump.  Hand- 
ford,  Mathew  Sutcliff,  Dean  of  Exeter,  Francis  White,  Dean 
of  Carlisle,  Thos.  Tamshaw,  Aldermen  Robert  Johnson, 
•Jas.  Cambell  &  Ralph  Freeman,  Morris  Abbott,  Nath.  But- 
ler, Geo.  Wilmore,  Wm.  Hackwell,  John  Mildmay,  Philip 
Germayne,  Edward  Johnson,  Thos.  Gibbes,  Samuel  Wrote, 
John  Porey,  Michael  Hawes,  Edward  Palavacine,  Robert 
Bateman,  Martin  Bond,  Thos.  Styles,  Nich.  Leate,  Robert 
Butt,  Abrah.  Cartwright,  Rich.  Edwards,  John  Dyke,  An- 
thony Aldy,  Wm.  Palmer,  Edward  Ditchfield,  George  Mole 
and  Richard  Morer. 

Whereas  at  the  suit  of  divers  of  his  Maj.  Subjects  intending 
to  deduce  a  colony  and  make  habitation  and  plantation  of  sundry 
people  in  that  part  of  America  commonly  called  Virginia  and 
other  territories  in  America.  The  King  greatly  commending 
and  accepting  their  desires,  did  by  his  letters  Patents  in  the  fourth 
year  of  his  reign  [10  April,  1606]  grant  to  divers  Knights,  Gen- 
tlemen and  others,  for  the  more  speedy  accomplishment  of  said 
Plantation  that  they  should  divide  themselves  into  two  Colonies 
called  the  first  and  second  Colonies,  in  which  said  letters  Patent 
his  Maj.  declared  that  his  Maj..  his  heirs  and  successors,  would 
from  time  to  time  ordain  and  give  such  further  instructions,  laws, 
constitutions  and  ordinances,  for  the  better  rule  of  the  same,  and 
whereas  his  Maj.  did  by  several  Privy  Seal  letters,  give  such  or- 
ders, ordinances  &  constitutions  for  directing  the  affairs  of  said 
first  Colony,  and  afterwards  upon  petition  of  divers  adventurers 


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&  planters  of  the  same,  his  Maj.  did  by  his  letters  Pattents  in 
the  17th  *  year  of  his  reign  incorporate  divers  Noblemen,  Knights, 
gentlemen  &  others,  by  the  name  of  Treasurer  and  Company  of 
adventurers  and  planters  of  the  City  of  London  for  the  first  Col- 
ony in  Virginia,  granting  them  divers  powers,  liberties  and  au- 
thorities and  afterwards  by  letters  Patent  in  the  9th  year  of  his 
Maj.  reign  [12  March,  161  j4]  did  further  grant  to  said  Treasurer 
&  Company  and  their  successors,  divers  other  Islands  within  the 
limits  of  the  said  letters  Patents  expressed  with  other  powers 
and  authorities.  And  whereas  his  Maj.  out  of  his  zeal  and  affec- 
tion to  the  furthering  of  the  said  Plantations,  having  still  a  watch- 
ful and  careful  eye  to  the  same  and  finding  the  courses  taken  for 
the  setling  thereof  had  not  taken  that  good  effect  which  his  Maj. 
intended  and  so  much  desired,  did  by  commission  lately  granted 
to  certain  persons  of  quality  and  trust,  cause  the  State  of  said 
country  of  Virginia  to  be  examined  as  well  in  point  of  Livelihood 
as  government,  and  how  the  great  sums  of  money  collected  for 
the  good  thereof,  had  been  expended,  and  whereas  his  Maj. 
Commis"  after  much  labor  sertified  that  the  people  sent  to  in- 
habit and  plant  in  said  Country,  were  most  of  them  by  God's 
visitation,  sickness,  famine  and  massacres  by  the  native  savages, 
dead,  and  those  living,  in  miserable  and  lamentable  necessity 
and  want,  but  the  country  appeared  to  said  Commis"  to  be  fruit- 
ful and  healthful  after  the  people  had  been  some  time  there,  and 
that  if  industry  were  used  it  would  produce  many  staple  and 
good  commodities,  tho  as  yet  the  sixteen  years  government  now 
past  had  yielded  few  or  none,  and  this  neglect  they  conceived 
must  fall  on  the  governors  and  company  here  who  had  power  to 
direct  the  plantations  there,  and  that  said  plantations  were  of  great 
importance  and  would  as  they  hoped,  remain  a  lasting  monu- 
ment of  his  Maj.  happy  government  to  all  posterity,  if  the  same 
were  prosecuted  to  those  ends  for  which  they  were  first  under- 
taken and  his  Maj.  instructions  given  in  the  beginning  of  the 
plantation,  for  the  direction  of  affairs  there  by  thirteen  Council- 
lors in  Virginia  and  as  many  here,  all  nominated  by  his  Maj. 
had  been  pursued  and  not  altered  into  so  popular  a  course 
&  amongst  so  many  hands,  much  better  effects  had  been  produced 

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and  much  contention  and  confusion  avoided.  His  Maj.  entering 
into  mature  consideration  of  the  premises,  did  by  advice  of  his 
privy  council  resolve  by  altering  the  charters  of  said  company 
as  to  points  of  government  found  defective,  to  settle  such  a 
course  as  might  best  secure  the  safety  of  his  people  there  and 
cause  said  plantation  to  flourish,  and  yet  with  the  preservation 
of  the  interest  of  every  planter  and  adventurer  so  far  forth  as 
their  present  interests  shall  not  prejudice  the  public  plantations, 
but  because  said  Treasurer  and  Company  did  not  submit  their 
charters  to  be  reformed,  his  Maj.  proceedings  therein  were  stayed 
for  a  time  until  upon  a  Quo  Warranto  brought  and  a  legal  and 
judicial  proceeding  therein,  the  said  charters  are  avoided.  His 
Maj.  being  resolved  to  proceed  in  the  course  he  ever  intended 
for  the  good  of  said  plantation,  and  to  effect  the  same  by  a  new 
charter,  but  because  the  points  thereof  may  be  many  and  the 
nature  and  consequence  of  them  require  advised  consideration 
and  deliberation  before  it  be  passed  and  yet  the  least  delay  may 
prove  perilous  to  said  plantation.  His  Majesty  for  the  better  pro- 
gression to  effect  the  same,  and  reposing  assured  trust  and  con- 
fidence in  the  understanding  and  circumspection  of  those  above 
named,  appoints  them  his  Maj.  Commis"  with  power  to  and  six 
whereof  the  Lord  President,  Lord  Chichester,  Sir  Thomas  Ed- 
mondes.  Sir  John  Suckling,  Sir  George  Calvert,  Sir  Edward 
Conway,  Sir  Richard  Weston  and  Sir  Julius  Ceasar,  to  be  one 
to  take  into  consideration  the  State  of  said  Colony  and  planta- 
tion as  well  for  the  safety  of  the  people  there,  strength  of  the 
place  and  government  to  be  exercised  there,  as  for  the  manage- 
ment of  the  business  here  in  England,  to  settle  the  same  by  such 
orders,  rules  and  directions  as  any  such  six  or  more  as  aforesaid 
shall  find  most  fit,  and  give  power  also  to  execute  according  to 
their  discretion,  any  authorities,  privileges,  &c.,  mentioned  in 
said  letters  patents  for  said  first  colony,  and  to  take  into  their 
hand,  goods,  chattels,  merchandize  and  money  in  the  hands  of 
any  persons  for  &  concerning  the  public  use  said  Colony  or  of 
said  pretented  Governor  and  Company,  also  to  give  orders  for 
sending  of  supply  to  said  Colony  out  of  proceeds  of  said  goods 
and  money,  and  power  to  call  together  the  adventurers  or  plant- 
ers to  confer  with  them  for  the  advancement  or  settling  of  said 
plantation  and  appoint  committees  for  the  due  preparation  of 


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affairs,  also  to  propose  and  set  down  such  matters  and  things  as 
they  think  most  necessary  for  settlmg  and  establishing  the  gov- 
ermnent  of  said  Colony  and  concerning  the  adventurers,  planters 
and  inhabitants  thereof,  and  of  the  trade  and  all  other  things 
whatsoever  requisite  for  the  maintenance,  increase  and  continu- 
ance of  said  Colony,  which  may  be  necessary  to  be  inserted  in 
the  new  Charter  by  his  Maj.  to  be  made  for  the  good  of  said 
plantation  and  Colony.  Declaring  that  in  case  of  any  question 
or  doubt  which  requires  aid  from  his  Maj.,  he  &  his  privy  coun- 
cil will  give  such  directions  as  shall  be  most  necessary,  also  that 
if  any  be  hereafter  willing  to  raise  any  joint  stock  to  be  sent  to 
said  Colony,  every  such  adventurer  to  have  a  free  voice  in  the 
ordering  and  disposing  of  the  same.  Power  to  take  into  their 
custody  the  seals  of  the  Treasurer,  Company  and  Council  of 
Virginia,  and  to  keep  and  peruse  all  Charters  Patents  grants 
and  instructions  heretofore  given  to  said  Treasurer  &  Company 
&  others,  concerning  said  colony,  and  all  books,  orders,  letters 
&  other  writings  in  whose  hands  soever  the  same  be,  requiring 
all  persons  to  deliver  up  same  to  said  Commissioners  for  their 
better  information  **  in  this  work  of"  so  deep  and  great  import- 
ance, willing  and  requiring  you  to  be  diligent  &  attendant  at  the 
execution  '  *  of  the  same. '  *  This  commission  to  continue  in  force 
until  his  Maj.  by  writing  under  his  signet  or  privy  seal,  signify 
his  pleasure  to  the  contrary.     Patent  Roll,  22  Jan,,  Part  1,  No.  4. 


Lord  Mandeville  to  Sir  Edward  Conway. 

1624,  July  16. 
Lord  President  Mandevill  to  Secretary  Sir  Edward  Conway: 

Conceives  it  will  not  beunpleasing  to  his  Maj.  to  hear  of  the 
proceedings  upon  the  commission  for  Virginia,  which  being  sealed 
but  yesterday  morning,  in  the  afternoon  they  met  at  Sir  Thomas 
Smith's  house.  Finds  the  gentlemen  and  merchants  very  hearty 
and  ready  to  afford  all  furtherance  to  the  work.  Has  sent  the 
brief  for  the  king  to  peruse.  There  is  sonum  necessarium  which 
he  sees  will  give  life  to  all  the  business,  and  that  must  be  done  at 
first  or  all  will  be  at  a  stand,  which  is  to  have  a  Proclamation  go 
forth  to  stay  importation  of  Foreign  tobacco.  This  was  the  suit 
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again  as  instantly  deserved  by  all  those  commissioners.  Neces- 
sity of  preventing  the  importation  of  a  great  quantity  of  Spanish 
tobacco  provided  at  Cadiz  and  other  places,  which  if  allowed 
would  not  only  drain  the  kingdom  of  a  great  deal  of  money,  but 
cast  back  the  progress  of  this  plantation  for  two  or  three  years. 
The  commiss"  have  it  in  contemplation  how  to  make  retribution 
to  his  maj.  of  any  loss  in  his  customs  by  raising  it  out  of  the 
plantation  tobacco.  Though  fit  to  certify  this  **  his  maj.  making 
it  his  own  work."     i  p.  (^Colonial  Papers y  Vol.  3,  No.  17.) 


Orders  by  the  Commissioners  for  Virginia. 

(Inclosure)  1624,  July  16. 

Orders  set  down  at  a  meeting  of  the  commissioners  for  Vir- 
ginia. The  commission  being  sealed  July  /j,  1624.  Henry 
Fotherbye  now  secretary  to  the  Burmuda  company  to  be  clerk 
to  this  commission.  Thos.  Newton  to  be  Beadle.  Meeting  to 
be  at  Sir  Thomas  Smithes  house  every  Thursday  at  2  p.  m.  All 
charters,  books  &  writing  mentioned  in  the  commission  to  be 
brought  here  in  the  custody  of  the  clerk  for  the  commiss"  use. 
To  take  into  consideration  and  report  on  the  present  state  of  the 
plantation  on  Thursday  next.  The  committee  to  have  power  to 
send  for  such  persons  as  can  give  information  therein.  Also  to 
take  into  consideration,  the  fittest  &  most  speedy  course  to  settle 
the  govern"'  there,  the  supply  necessary  for  the  inhabitants  and 
which  shall  be  sent  thither,  what  is  fit  to  be  done  for  defence 
against  the  savages,  the  commodities  that  can  be  raised.  Notice 
of  this  commission  to  be  given  at  the  Exchange  &  that  all  repair- 
ing go  to  the  commiss"  to  receive  directions  as  went  to  the  com- 
pany heretofore.  The  committee  next  to  take  into  consideration 
how  the  plantation  now  stand,  and  how  it  did  stand  at  the  bring- 
ing in  of  the  Quo  warranto,  and  what  transactions  &  grants  & 
by  whom  have  been  made  since  that  time.  That  there  is  an  ab- 
solute necessity  for  the  present  maintaining  of  the  plantation  by 
their  Tobacco  as  the  only  present  means  for  their  subsistence — 
and  the  present  necessity  for  restraining  the  importation  of  all 
foreign  Tobacco.  The  Lord  President  to  present  the  commis- 
sioners humble  desires  to  his  Maj.  herein.  No  ship  to  go  for 
Virginia  (whereof  two  or  three  are  already  in  preparation)  until 


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a  resolution  be  taken  for  settling  the  government  there,  lest  the 
report  of  the  dissolution  of  the  former  government  might  breed 
a  confusion  there  before  the  setling  of  a  new — and  because  these 
businesses  are  weighty  and  require  speed,  ordered  that  the  com- 
mittee meet  from  day  to  day  to  make  further  propositions  for  the 
good  of  the  plantation.    3pp.  {Colonial Papers ,  Vol.  3,  No.  17,  I.) 


Sir  Robert  Heath  to  Sir  Edwd.  Conway. 

1624,  July  31. 
Solicitor  General  Sir  Robert  Heath  to  Secretary  Sir  Edward 
Conway: 

The  commissioners  for  Virginia  conceive  it  very  necessary 
for  preventing  such  distractions  and  confusions  in  Virginia  as 
might  happen  by  various  rumors  and  reports  that  commission  be 
sent  to  some  of  the  principal  inhabitants  for  present  government 
there  until  his  Maj.  pleasure  be  further  known.  It  is  conceived 
this  would  be  of  best  authority  &  most  for  their  satisfaction  if  it 
be  immediately  from  his  Maj.  under  the  great  seal  of  England. 
Have  agreed  upon  the  form  enclosed  (wanting)  for  his  maj.  sig- 
nature, they  also  desire  his  Maj.  to  bestow  upon  the  colony  a  last 
of  powder  which  may  not  be  had  elsewhere  but  out  of  his  Maj. 
store  whereof  they  stand  in  great  need,  i  p.  (  Colonial  Papers, 
Vol.  3,  No.   19.) 


Petition  of  the  Governor  and  Assembly  of  Virginia 
TO  THE  King. 

July  3,  1624. 

Petition  of  the  Governor,  Council  and  Colony  of  V^irginia  in 
their  General  Assembly,  to  the  King: 
That  whereas  to  their  great  comfort  they  have  lately  under- 
stood that  his  Maj.  notwithstanding  the  unjust  disparagements 
of  this  plantation,  hath  taken  it  into  his  more  near  and  special 
care.  Urged  by  their  duty  and  experiences,  petitioners  be- 
seech that  credit  may  not  be  given  to  the  late  declarations  pre- 
sented to  his  Maj.  concerning  the  happy  but  indeed  miserable 
state  of  the  Colony  during  the  first  twelve  years  neither  to  those 
malicious  imputations  which  have  been  laid  on  the  latter,  but  to 
be  pleased  to  behold  in  little  the  true  state  of  both  by  their  re- 


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lations  *  now  presented  by  the  hands  of  John  Puntis,  a  worthy 
member  of  their  body,  containing  nothing  but  the  truth  without 
disaffection  or  partiality.  Their  earnest  desires  to  continue  the 
government  under  which  they  live,  but  if  his  Maj.  otherwise 
determine  their  prayers  solicit  his  Maj.  tender  compassion  not 
to  suffer  his  poor  subjects  to  fall  into  the  hands  of  Sir  Thomas 
Smithe  or  his  confidants  who  have  lately  abused  his  Maj.  sacred 
ears  with  wrong  informations,  but  graciously  to  protect  them 
from  growing  storms  engendered  by  faction,  and  that  they  may 
depend  upon  no  meaner  persons  than  of  late  they  have  done, 
since  the  action  is  of  such  honor  &  consequence,  and  in  that  by 
the  late  massacre,  continued  war,  and  mean  price  of  tobacco, 
they  are  disabled  from  setting  up  staple  commodities,  extirpa- 
tion of  the  perfidious  savages,  much  less  for  fortification  against 
a  foreign  enemy,  they  humbly  solicit  the  effort  of  his  Maj.  gra- 
cious intention  for  their  and  the  Somers  Islands,  sole  importa- 
tion of  Tobacco,  beseeching  his  Maj.  to  believe  that  they  effect 
not  that  contempitable  weed  as  an  end,  but  as  a  present  means 
whereof  they  doubt  not  ere  long  to  give  his  Maj.  a  real  assur- 
ance. That  they  may  have  a  voice  in  the  disposal  of  that  aid  of 
soldiers  they  have  been  put  in  hopes  of,  since  none  at  that  dis- 
tance can  direct  so  advantageously  as  their  presence  and  experi- 
ence. Signed  by  Sirs  Fras.  Wyatt,*  Fras.  West,'  &  George 
Yeardly,^  Geo.  Sandys,*  Roger  Smithe,*  Ralph  Hamor,'  Will. 
Pierce,^  Wm.  Tucker,*  Jabes  Whitaker,'  John  Pollington,'* 
Nicholas  Martian,"  Edward  Blaney."  Isaac  Chaplain,"  Clem't 
Dilke,"  John  Pott.**  Henry  Watkins,  Rich.  Stevens,"  Nath. 
Basse, '^  Thomas  Harris,*'  Rich.  Kingssniyll,"  John  Utie,*®  Rob- 
ert Addams,  Thomas  Marlot,  Luke  Boys,"  John  Chewe,"  Nath. 
Caussey,**  Rawley  Croshaw,"  Richard  Bigges,  Gabriel  Holland. 
(^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  Ill,  No.  21.) 


NOTES. 

'Sir  Francis  Wyatt,  Governor  of  Virginia  from   November, 
162 1,  to  August  26,  1625,  when  a  new  commission  was  issued  to 


*The  "relation  "  sent  was  '*A  Briefe  Declaration  of  the  Plantation  of 
Virginia  duringe  the  first  Twelve  Years,"  &c.  Colonial  Records  of 
Virginia,  Senate  Document,  1874. 


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him,  and  he  continued  in  office  until  the  i8th  of  September, 
when  he  received  permission  to  return  home,  on  account  of  the 
death  of  his  father.  He  was  again  Governor,  November,  1639, 
February,  1641.  For  Governor  Wyatt  and  notices  of  the  Wyatts 
of  Gloucester,  King  and  Queen,  Charles  City  and  Prince  George 
counties,  see  this  Magazine,  III,  160,  177-181.  The  following 
additions  are  made  to  these  notes: 

It  appears  from  the  records  of  Spotsylvania  county,  that  on 
August  29,  1745,  division  was  marie  of  2,946  acres  in  Spotsyl- 
vania, which  had  been  devised  by  Francis  Wyatt,  late  of  Glou- 
cester county,  deceased,  to  his  children,  William,  Edward, 
Thomas  and  Ann  Wyatt;  the  latter  of  whom  had,  since  her 
father's  death,  married  John  Thruston.  (2)  Deed,  Spotsylva- 
nia, 1746,  from  Edward  Wyatt,  of  Gloucester  county,  conveying 
his  portion  of  above  mentioned  lands.  (3)  Deed,  Spotsylvania, 
1747,  from  William  Wyatt,  mariner,  conveying  land  in  Spotsyl- 
vania left  him  by  his  father,  Francis  Wyatt.  (4)  Deed,  Spot- 
sylvania, August,  1749,  from  Thomas  Wyatt,  of  Essex,  and 
Sukey  his  wife,  conveying  667  acres  in  Spotsylvania,  part  of 
land  above  mentionod.  Shortly  after  making  this  deed,  Thomas 
Wyatt  removed  to  Spotsylvania.  (5)  There  is  in  Essex  a  deed 
from  Thomas  Wyatt,  of  Spotsylvania,  and  his  wife  Sukey,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Edmundson,  of  Essex.  Thomas  Wyatt  was  a  jus- 
tice of  Spotsylvania  in  1762.  There  were  other  Wyatts  named 
in  the  Spotsylvania  records.  (6)  Thomas  Ballard  Smith,  of 
Louisa  county,  made  a  deed  February  5,  1764,  to  his  grand- 
children, Thomas  Ballard  Wyatt,  Francis  Wyatt  and  John 
Wyatt,  sons  of  John  Wyatt,  "of  the  parish  of  St.  George  and 
County  of  Caroline.*'  (7)  Deed,  November,  1778,  from  John 
Wyatt  and  Anne  his  wife,  and  Thomas  Ballard  Wiatt  and  Su- 
sanna his  wife,  of  Hanover  county,  conveying,  land  in  Spotsyl- 
vania. (8)  Deed,  Spotsylvania,  January,  1786,  from  Thomas 
Ballard  Wyatt  and  Francis  Wyatt,  conveying  land  in  Spotsyl- 
vania left  them  by  their  grandfather,  Thomas  Ballard  Smith. 

The  will  and  deed  books  of  Caroline  county  have  been  de- 
stroyed; but  the  order  books  give  a  little  information.  (9)  John 
Wyatt  owned  land  in  Caroline  in  1732.  (10)  John  Wyatt,  gent. 
was  party  to  a  suit  in  1750.  (11)  In  1771  John  Wyatt  chose 
Henry  Gilbert  as  guardian,     f  12)  The  will  of  William    Wyatt 


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was  proved  April,  1772.  (13)  In  February,  1778,  Richard  Wyatt 
took  the  oaths  as  ensign  in  the  CaroHne  miHtia.  (14)  In  May, 
1778,  the  will  of  Henry  Wyatt  was  proved. 

It  is  probable  that  some  of  these  Wyatts  of  Caroline  were 
descendants  of  Richard  Wyatt,  and  Catherine  his  wife,  of  King 
and  Queen  county,  who  made  a  deed  in  Essex  in  July,  17 10. 

Mr.  L.  G.  Tyler  found  among  some  old  chancery  papers  in 
Williamsburg,  depositions  by  John  Wiatt,  Jr. ,  stating  that  he  re- 
moved in  1767,  from  Gloucester  to  Prince  William  county,  and 
by  Conquest  Wiatt,  that  in  1776  he  removed  from  Gloucester  to 
Cumberland  county.  At  the  time  of  making  the  deposition,  Con- 
quest Wyatt  lived  in  Prince  William  county,  but  subsequently 
removed  to  the  adjoining  county  of  Fauquier,  where  his  will 
dated  September  14,  1806,  and  proved  August  28,  1815,  is  re- 
corded. His  legatees  were  his  daughter  Mary  Newman,  his 
daughter  Elizabeth  Owens  (he  adds  he  has  been  informed  she  is 
dead  and  if  this  is  true  the  legacy  to  go  to  her  heirs) ;  daughter 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  James  Green,  daughter  Fanny  Lewis,  son  John, 
daughter  Eleanor  Wiatt,  wife  Lettice. 

There  is  in  Prince  William  a  deed  October  7,  1774,  from  Wil- 
liam Wyatt  and  Lettice  his  wife. 

Probably  a  descendant  of  the  Virginia  family  or  families,  was 
Frances  Wyatt,  born  about  1760,  who  lived  in  North  Carolina, 
and  who  had  three  sons  Captain  John  Wyatt,  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  181 2,  Anthony  and  Douglas  Wyatt.  These  three  brothers 
removed  first  to  Montgomery  county,  Ky. ,  and  afterwards,  about 
1 8 16,  to  Missouri.  Information  is  especially  desired  in  regard 
to  the  ancestry  of  this  Francis  Wyatt,  of  North  Carolina. 

We  have  a  copy  of  entries  in  a  Wyatt  family  Bible,  apparently 
from  King  and  Queen  county,  which  will  be  printed  at  an  early 
date. 

•Francis  West,  brother  of  Thos.,  Lord  Delaware,  Governor 
of  Virginia,  and  himself  Governor  November,  1627,  March  5, 
1629.     See  this  Magazine,  II,  308-309. 

'Sir  George  Yeardley,  Deputy  Governor,  1616-17,  Governor, 
16 19,  November,  162 1,  and  April  19,  1626,  to  his  death  in  Novem- 
ber, 1627.  See  this  Magazine,  I,  84-86;  the  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen. 
Register,  Jan.,  1884  (containing  Yeardley 's  will)  and  *'  Sir  George 
Yeardley  and  his  Descendants,"  by  T.  T.  Uj)shur. 


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*  George  Sandys,  the  poet,  Treasurer  of  Virginia.  See  this 
Magazine,  I,  90. 

*  Roger  Smith,  appointed  to  the  Council,  1621.  See  this  Mag- 
azine, I,  86. 

•Ralph  Hamor,  appointed  to  the  Council,  1621;  author  of  *'  A 
True  Discourse  of  the  Present  State  of  Virginia,"  London,  1615. 
See  this  Magazine,  I,  86. 

'William  Pierce  or  Peirce,  afterwards  in  1631-44,  member  of 
the  Council.  See  this  Magazine,  I,  147.  In  the  list  in  Hening, 
I,  129,  his  name  is  printed  '*  Peeine." 

•William  Tucker,  appointed  to  the  Council,  March  4,  1626. 
See  this  Magazine,  I,  188-190,  and  193. 

•Jabez  Whitaker,  probably  a  brother  of  Rev.  Alexander 
Whitaker.    See  this  Magazine,  II,  78,  and  Jan.,  1894,  P-  295. 

**John  Pollington,  was  also  a  member  of  the  first  House  of 
Burgesses,  16 19,  for  the  **  City  of  Henricus."  He  made  a  visit 
to  England  in  1626. 

"Nicholas  Martian,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1623, 
1631,  1632,  and  1632-3.     See  this  Magazine,  I,  425-426. 

*•  Edward  Blaney,  afterwards  appointed  member  of  the  Coun- 
cil, March  4,  1626. 

"Isaac  Chaplin  lived  at  "  Chaplins  Choice,"  in  the  present 
county  of  Prince  George. 

"Clement  Dilke;  see  this  Magazine,  I,  443. 

"John  Pott,  Governor  of  Virginia,  1628-29.  See  this  Maga- 
zine, I,  88-89,  198. 

"Richard  Stevens,  member  of  the  Council,  1629,  &c.  See 
this  Magazine,  I,  82-83. 

*' Nathaniel  Basse,  of  **  Basse's  Choice,"  in  present  Isle  of 
Wight  county,  also  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1629. 
See  this  Magazine,  II,  68;  and  William  &  Mary  Quarterly, 
April,  1899. 

"Thomas  Harris,  of  Henrico  county.  For  notice  of  him  and 
some  of  his  descendants,  see  this  Magazine,  IV,  248-249;  and 
for  fuller  account  see  "A  Chart  of  the  Descendants  of  Captain 
Thomas  Harris,"  &c.,  Richmond,  1894. 

"Richard  Kingsmill,  of  '*  Kingsmill,"  on  James  river,  near 
the  present  Williamsburg.  His  arms  as  shown  on  the  tomb  of 
his  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  was  wife  successively  of  Colonel 


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William  Tayloe,  of  the  Council,  and  of  President  Nathaniel 
Bacon,  were  *'Ar.  crucilly  sa,  a  chev,  ermines  betwn.  three  mill- 
rinds  of  the  secoTtd,  a  chief  of  the  third. ' '  See  also  William  & 
Mary  Quarterly,  V,  125. 

'•John  Utie,  memberof  the  Council,  1631,  &c.  See  this  Mag- 
azine, I,  90.  He  was  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  expulsion  of 
Governor  Harvey  from  the  Colony.  See  this  Magazine,  I,  416- 
430.     And   William  &  Mary  Quarterly ,  V,  52-57. 

**  Luke  Boys.  See  this  Magazine,  IV,  80,  and  V,  97.  He 
died  before  1635,  leaving  an  only  child,  Hannah. 

"John  Chew,  of  Hog  Island  and  York  county,  frequently  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  See  this  Magazine,  I,  87- 
88,  197;  II,  347;  III,  58,  391-392;  V,  341-342.  The  Chews  of 
Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  were  undoubtedly  descendants  of 
John  Chew,  the  early  burgebs;  and  no  doubt  the  later  Virginia 
Chews  were  also,  but  the  writer  has  seen  no  documentary  proof 
of  the  traditional  statement  that  Larkin  Chew  (the  immediate 
ancestor  of  the  Virginia  family,  who,  as  appears  from  a  deed  in 
Essex,  was  living  in  King  and  Queen  county  in  1703),  was  a  son 
of  Joseph  Chew,  of  Annapolis,  who  was  a  son  of  John,  the  im- 
migrant. The  latter  is  shown  by  the  records  of  York  county  to 
have  had  a  son  Joseph.     Can  any  one  furnish  the  desired  proof? 

"Nathaniel  Causey  came  to  Virginia  in  1607,  ^^^  lived  at 
"Causey's  Care,'*  situated  just  back  of  the  present  Eppes's 
Island,  Charles  City  county.  This  is  shown  by  a  patent  of  ad- 
joining land, 

"  Rawley  Croshaw.  See  this  Magazine,  I,  84.  In  regard  to 
Henry  Watkins,  Robert  Addams,  Thomas  Marlot,  Richard 
Bigges,  and  Gabriel  Holland,  no  information  is  accessible.  Sir 
George  Yeardley,  Nicholas  Martian  (an  ancestor  of  George 
Washington),  Thomas  Harris,  and  John  Chew  are  the  only 
members  of  this  early  House  of  Burgesses  known  to  have  de- 
scendants in  America,  though  it  is  very  possible  that  there  may 
be  others. 


Earl  of  Warwick  to  Secretary  Conway. 

1624,  Aug.  9,  Newark,  this  Monday  noon. 
Robert  Earl  of  Warwick  to  Secretary  Sir  Edward  Conway: 

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Conway  to  put  Mr.  Potts  name  out  of  it,  his  Maj.  kno>vs  the 
reason,  he  was  the  poisoner  of  the  Savages  there  (in  Virginia) 
and  therefore  it  is  very  unfit  he  should  be  employed  by  the  State 
in  any  business.  Prays  him  also  to  put  the  King  in  mind  of 
writing  a  letter  to  Mr.  Attorney  to  put  in  Robert  Bing  in  the 
Virginia  commission  according  to  his  Maj.  promise,  for  he  can 
do  his  Maj.  much  service  therein,  and  since  his  Maj.  trusts  the 
Earl  of  Warwick  in  that  business  he  would  be  glad  to  do  all  he 
can  for  the  advancement  thereof.  (^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  3, 
No.  25.) 

[Another  instance  in  which  that  evil  genius  of  Virginia,  the 
Elarl  of  Warwick,  is  found  aiding  and  abetting  men  of  bad  char- 
acter in  business  relating  to  Virginia.  Argall  and  Butler  had 
before  been  his  protegees,  and  now  he  was  attempting  to  force 
into  the  Commission  for  Virginia,  a  man,  whom  the  Lord  Keeper 
and  the  Solicitor  General  declared — in  another  letter  in  the  Sains- 
bury  abstracts — to  be  utterly  unfit  for  the  position,  and  who  had 
behaved  so  offensively  to  the  Earl  of  Southampton,  during  the 
business  of  the  Virginia  Company,  that  the  Lords,  whose 
sympathies  were  not  with  Southampton,  had  committed  Bing  to 
the  Marshalsea  prison.  The  incident  is  only  worthy  of  record 
as  showing  the  character  of  Warwick,  and  is  of  value  as  evidence 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  Mr.  Firth,  the  writer  of  the  life  of  War- 
wick in  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,  and  Mr.  Brown, 
in  the  Genesis,  give  a  much  more  favorable  account  of  Warwick's 
character  than  that  which  has  been  usually  held  by  English  and 
American  writers.  It  is  difficult  however,  for  aay  one  to  examine 
his  connection  with  the  colony  of  Virginia,  and  the  Virginia 
Company,  without  feeling  that  Clarendon  had  some  reason  for 
saying  that  Warwick  was  a  man,  **than  whom  one  with  less 
virtue  could  scarcely  be  found  out.'*] 


1624,  Sept.  15.  License  to  Sir  Francis  Wvatt,  Governor 
of  Virginia,  to  return  to  England  for  his  own  private  business, 
on  the  decease  of  his  father.  Power  to  Sir  Geo.  Yeardley  to  be 
Governor  in  his  stead  and  on  his  death,  John  Harvey,  or  failing 
him,  any  one  of  the  Council  there,  chosen  by  the  Majority. 
(Docquet,  Domestic,  James  ist. ) 


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Extracts  from  the  Register  of  Farnham  Parish,  Rich- 
mond county,  Virginia. 


[The  book  from  which  the  following  entries  were  taken  is  now 
in  the  county  clerk's  office  at  Warsaw,  Va.  It  is  evidently 
a  copy  from  an  older  record  (as  there  is  no  sort  of  chronological 
order),  from  a  register  which  had  become  so  dilapidated  as  to 
be  merely  loose  pages,  which  the  copyist  did  not  take  time  to  ar- 
range in  order.  From  the  small  number  of  marriages  and  deaths 
recorded  in  the  copy,  it  is  probable  that  part  of  the  original  was 
lost.     B  =  born;  M  =  married;  D  =  died.] 


B. 
B. 
D. 
B. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

B. 
D. 
B. 
D. 
D. 
D. 
D. 
D. 
D. 
D. 


Elizabeth,  dau.  Francis  and  Sarah  Armistead,  July  12,  17 16. 


John,  son  of  Francis  and  Sarah  Armistead, 
Francis  Armistead, 

Wm.   Burgess,  son   Henry  and   Winifred 
Armistead, 

Ann,  dau.  Thomas  and  Ann  Beale, 
Thomas,  son  Thomas  and  Ann  Beale, 
Charles,  son  Thomas  and  Ann  Beale, 
Ann,  dau.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Beale, 
Thomas,  son  Charles  and  Frances  Barber, 
Charles,  son  Charles  and  Frances  Barber, 
Mary,  dau.  Charles  and  Frances  Barber, 
Anne,  dau.  Charles  and  Frances  Barber, 
Elizabeth,  dau.  Charles  and  Frances  Bar- 
ber, 
William,  son  Charles  and  Frances  Barber, 
Mary  Ball, 

Katharine,  dau.  John  and  Mary  Benger, 
Katharine  Benger, 
John  Benger, 
Charles  Barber, 
Charles  Barber,  Jr., 
Betty  Beckwith, 
Elizabeth  Beale, 
Thomas  Beale,  Jr., 


Feb.  26,  17 18. 
April  4,  17 19. 


1775. 
1672. 

1675. 


Nov.  10, 

Aug.  10, 

Jan.  29, 

Oct.  20,  1678 

Sept.  3d,  171 1 

March  16,  1701 

Aug.  Ti,  1704 

Dec.  26,  1706 

Aug.  16,  1709 


March  4,  17 11 . 

Nov.  17,  1714. 

Jan.,  1718. 

Oct.  10,  1723. 

Feb.  5,  1723-4. 

Oct.  31st,  1725. 

Nov.  27,  1726. 

Nov.  24,  1726. 

Ap'l  7,  1726. 

March  21st,  1727-8. 

Oct,  9,  1732. 


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B.  Walter,  son  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Cole, .    .        March  5,  1677. 

B.   Reuben,  son  Christopher  and  Anne  Calvert,      Nov.  5,  1682. 

B.  Susanna,  dau.  Wm.  and  Anne  Colston,  Dec.  8,  1686. 

B.  William,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Colston,  Aug.  ist,  17 13. 

B.  Traverse,  son  Charles  and  Rebecca  Colston,      Aug.  4,  17 14. 

B.  Winifred,    dau.    Newman   and    Katharine 

Brockenbrough,  March  21st,  1726. 

D.   Rebecca  Colston.  Dec.  29,  1726. 

D.  Elizabeth  Colston,  Jan.  18,  1726. 

D.  Charles  Colston,  Jan.  25.  1726. 

D.  Winifred  Colston,  Jan.  29,  1726. 

B.   Rawleigh,  son  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,     Apl.  24,  1680. 

B.  Wilmott,  dau.  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,     Dec.  14,  1681. 

B.  Million,  dau.  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,    Nov.  21st.  1683. 

B.  William,  son  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,       Oct.  19,  1685. 

B.   Robert,  son  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,         Jan.  2d,  1686. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  Wm.  and  Million  Downman,    Jan.  26,  1688. 

B.  Traverse,  son  Will,  and  MiUion  Downman,      Nov.  15,  1696. 

B.   Robert,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,         May  21st,  1720. 

B.  James,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,  July  29,  1722. 

B.   William,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,         Feb.  4,  1724-5. 

D.  Jabez  Downman,  Ap'l  23d,  1730. 

D.  Travers  Downman,  Ap'l  25,  1730. 

B.  William,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,         Feb.  14,  1724. 

B.  Travers,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,        March  16,  1726. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,     Aug.  20,  1728. 

B.  Jabez,  son  Wm.  and  Anne  Downman,  Sept.  30,  1730. 

M.   Mr.  Wm.  Jiavenport  and  Elizabeth  Heale,     Nov.  26,  1728. 

B.  William,  son  Wm.  and  Elizabeth  Davenport,     Feb.  6,  1735. 

B.  Fortunatus,  son  Wm.  and  Elizabeth  Dav- 
enport, June  12,  1738. 

M.  Mr.  John  Eustace  and  Alice  Corbin  Peachey,    Oct.  6,  1743. 

B.  John,  son  Alexander  and  Sarah  Fleming,    March  23d,  1690. 

B.  Charlotte,  dau.  James  and  Mary  Foushee,  June  5,  1692. 

B.  Susanna,  dau.  James  and  Mary  Foushee,  Dec.  12,  1695. 

B.  John,  son  John  and  Mary  Foushee,  Sept.  6,  1697. 

B.  Alexander,  son  Alexander  and  Sarah  Flem- 
ing, Ap'l  17,  1696. 

B.  Sarah,  dau.  Alexander  and  Sarah  Fleming,  Ap'l  31st,  1698. 


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B.  William,  son  Alexander  and  Sarah  Fleming,  Dec.  2d,  1706. 

B.  Charles,  son  Alexander  and  Sarah  Fleming,  Aug.  20,  1708. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  Alexander  and  Sarah  Flem- 
ing, Feb.  18,  1 7 10. 

D.  Alexander  Fleming,  May  5,  1720. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  John  and  Elizabeth  Foushee,  Oct.  ist,  1723. 

B.   Mary,  dau.  Moore  and  Margaret  Fauntleroy,  Feb.  28,  1725. 

B.  Moore,  son  Moore  and  Margaret  Fauntleroy,  Oct.  ist,  1728. 

D.  Mary  Foushee,  Oct.  3d,  1724. 

B.  Jean,  dau.  Thomas  and  Anne  Glascock,  July  10,  1673. 

B.  Mary  and  Anne,  daus.  Gregory  and  Mary 

Glascock,  Nov.  10,  1673. 

B.  Mary,  dau.  Thomas  and  Anne  Glascock.        Jan.  22d,  1690. 

B.  Frances,  dau.  Thomas  and  Anne  Glascock,      July  14,  1680. 

B.  Corbin,  son  of  Leroy  and  Winifred  Griffin,     April  12,  1679. 

B.  Winifred,  dau.  of  LeRoy  and  Winifred  Griffin,  October,  1682. 

B.  Thomas,  son  of  LeRoy  and  Winifred  Griffin,  Sept.  20,  1684. 

B.  Standley,  son  of  Francis  and  Ann  Gower,       Nov.  17,  1679. 

B.   Francis,  son  of  Francis  and  Ann  Gower,         April  15,  1682. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  David  and  Catharine  Gwin,  Dec.  31st,  1692. 

B.  John,  son  Thomas  and  Sarah  Glascock,  Jan.  14,  1699. 

B.   Gregory,  son  Thomas  and  Sarah  Glascock,  March  10,  1700. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  Thomas  and  Sarah  Glas- 
cock, April  20,  1703. 

B.  Thomas,  son  Thomas  and  Sarah  Glascock,     April  12,  1705. 

B.   Francis,  son  Francis  and  Easter  Gower,  Feb.  2d,  1706. 

B.   LeRoy,  son  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Griffin,         Jan.  9,  1711. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Griffin,  Oct.  13,  1714. 

B.  Frances,  dau.  Charles  and  Frances  Grimes,     Nov.  19,  17 17. 

B.  Alice,  dau.  Charles  and  Frances  Grimes,    March  24,  1718-9. 

B.   Katharine,  dau.  Standley  and  Sarah  Gower,  Sept.  24,  1720. 

B.   Peter,  son  Thomas  and  Sarah  Glascock,        March  13,  17 14. 

B.  Sarah,  dau.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Griffin,        Nov.  7,  17 16. 

B.   Ann,  dau.  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Griffin,  Jan.  16,  1718. 

B.  William,  son  Gregory  and  Alice  Glascock,       May  28,  1730. 

B.  Jesse,  son  Gregory  and  Elizabeth  Glascock,     May  10,  1730. 

B.  William,  son  George  and  Judith  Glascock,    Sept.  ist,  1734. 

B.  William,  son  William  and  Esther  Glascock,        July  4,  1733. 

D.  John  Gower,  Sept.  26,  1726. 


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D.   Frances  Gower,  Jan.  7,  1726. 

D.  Susanna  Go wer,  Dec.  11,  1726. 

D.  Winifred  Cower,  May  20,  1727. 

D.  Thomas  Glascock,  Jan.  8,  1724. 

D.  Frances  Cower,  Sept.  10,  1729. 

D.  Alice  Clascock,  June  25,  1730. 

D.  Thomas  Criffin,  Sept.  9,  1732. 

B.  Francis,  son  Francis  and  Rachel  Cower,  Dec.  15,  1726. 

B.  Sarah,  dau.  Gregory  and  Alice  Clascock,  Nov.  5,  1727. 

B.  William,  son  William  and  Esther  Clascock,  Feb.  20,  1728-9. 

B.  Ceorge,  son  Ceorge  and  Judith  Clascock,  Jan.  14,  1728. 

B.  Ann,  dau.  William  and  Esther  Clascock,  Feb.  29,  1730. 

B.  Gregory,  son  Gregory  and  Elizabeth  Glas- 
cock, Jan.  2ist,  1721-2. 

B.  Traverse  son  Gregory  and  Elizabeth  Clas- 
cock, Oct.  1st,  1734. 

B.  William,  son  Ceorge  and  Judith  Glascock,  Sept.  ist,  1734. 

B.  Thos.  B.,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  Oct.  17,  1735. 

M.  Gregory  Glascock  and  Elizabeth  Elder,  Jan.  29,  1 730-1. 

B.   Betty,  dau.  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  March  17,  1736, 

B.   LeRoy,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  Dec.  30,  1738. 

B.  Corbin,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  Nov.  2d,  1741. 

B.  William,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  Jan.  29,  1742. 

B.  Samuel,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  April  20,  1746. 

B.  Cyrus,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Criffin,  July  16,  1748. 

B.  George,  son  William  and  Esther  Glascock,  Dec.  20,  1743. 

B.  Mildred,  dau.  Ceorge  and  Judith  Glascock,  Nov.  4,  1749. 

B.  Betty,  dau.  William  and  Esther  Glascock,  Dec.  9,  1749. 

D.  Col.  LeRoy  Griffin,  July  9,  1750. 

B.  John  Tayloe,  son  LeRoy  and  Maryan  Griffin,  Aug.  24,  1750. 

D.  Million  Glascock,  Oct.  25,  1750. 

B.  John,  son  Wm.  and  Esther  Clascock,  Dec.  24,  1751. 

B.  Susannah,  dau.  George  and  Judith  Glascock,  Nov.  28,  1751. 

D.   Major  George  Clascock,  Feb.  27,  1753. 

B.  Milly,  dau.  William  and  Esther  Glascock,  Nov.  24,  1753. 

B.  Wm.  Chichester,  son  William  and  Eliza- 
beth Glascock,  July  4,  1754. 

B.  Judith,  dau.  Ceorge  and  Judith  Glascock,  1776. 

B.  George,  son  George  and  Judith  Glascock,  Jan.  10,  1756. 


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D. 
D. 

B. 

D. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

B. 
M. 
M. 
B. 
D. 
B. 

B. 


B. 

B. 

D. 
B. 


John  Glascock, 

Wm.  Chichester,  son  Wm.  and  Elizabeth 

Glascock, 
Thomas,  son  Thomas  and  Ann  Glascock, 
Jesse  Glascock, 

William,  son  John  and  Ann  Gaskins, 
Sarah,  dau.  George  and  Judith  Glascock, 
Elizabeth   Chichester,    dau.    Richard   and 

Hannah  Glascock, 

Richard,  son  George  and  Judith  Glascock, 
George,  son  Peter  and  Elizabeth  Glascock, 


May  7,  1756. 

Aug.  8,  1756, 

Sept.  2ist,  1756, 

Ap'l  1st,  1757 

June  18,  1758 

Oct.  4,  1 76 1 

April  27,  1762 

Aug.  23d,  1764, 

Jan.  26,  1 77 1 


Ann  Corbin,  dau.  LeRoy  and  Alice  Griffin,  Sept.  ist,  1765 
Elizabeth,  dau.  LeRoy  and  Judith  Griffin,  Aug.  18,  1773 
Washington,  son  John  and  Susannah  Glas- 
cock, Aug.  6,  1775 
Eleanor,  dau.  George  and  Catherine  Heal,  Nov.  19,  1705 
George,  son  George  and  Catherine  Heal,  Jan.  4,  1707 
Elizabeth,  dau.  George  and  Catherine  Heal,  March  8,  17 10. 
Catherine,    dau.     Dennis    and    Elizabeth 
McCarty,  Ap*l  16,  1678 
Daniel,  son  of  Dennis  and  Elizabeth  McCarty,  March  19,  1684, 
Alvin  Mountjoy  and  Ellen  Thornton,  May  3,  1728 
Billington  McCarty  and  Ann  Barber,  June  16,  1732 
Daniel,  son  of  Bullington  and  Ann  McCarty,   Oct.  22,  1733 
Daniel,  son  of  Bullington  and  Ann  McCarty,    Aug.  6,  1739 
Bullington,  son  of  Bullington  and  Ann  Mc- 
Carty, Oct.  3,  1736 
Thaddeus,  son  of  Bullington  and  Ann  Mc- 
Carty, Ap'l  I,  1739. 
Chas.   Barber,  son  of  Billington  and  Ann 

McCarty,  Aug.  23,  1741 
John,  son  of  Rev'd  Wm.  and  Barbara  Mc- 
Kay,                                                                 Feb.  13,  1744-5 
Fitzhugh,  son  of  Rev'd  Wm.  and  Barbara 
McKay,  Aug.  24,  1753, 
Ann  McCarty,  Jan,  7,  1753 
Daniel,  son  of  Bullington   and    Ann   Mc- 
Carty, Aug.  24,  1757. 


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B.  Thomas,  son   of  Willoughby   and    Sarah 

Newton,  Dec.  20,   1723-4 

B.  Rebecca,  dau.  of  Willoughby  and  Sarah 

Newton,  Oct.  6,  1726 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of   Henry  and    Elizabeth 

Newton,  Sept.  30,  1726 

B.  Winney,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Winney  Mc- 

Carty,  Sept.  4,  1775 

B.   Mildred    Smith,    dau.    of   Thaddeus  and 

Mary  McCarty,  Nov.  21,  1780 

M.  Thomas  Osborne  and  Frances  Smith,  Feb.  ti,  1726-7 

B.   Robert,    son    of   Samuel    and    Elizabeth 

Peachey,  March  21,  1673 

B.  Samuel,  son  of  William  and  Phoebe  Peachey,  Sep.  4,  1699 
B.  Alice  Corbin,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Wini- 
fred Peachey,  May  16,  1726 
B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Katherine 

Peachey,  Nov.  18,  172 1 

B.  Ann,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Peachey,  Aug.  24,  1738 
B.  Phoebe,    dau.    of   Samuel    and    Winifred 

Peachey,  Dec.  18,  1727 

B.  William,    son    of   Samuel    and    Winifred 

Peachey,  Ap*l  14,  1729 

B.  Winny  Griffin,  dau.  ol  Samuel  and  Wini- 
fred Peachey,  Feb.  26,  1730. 
B.  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Peachey,  Feb.  6,  1732 
B.  Thos.  Griffin,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred 

Peachey,  Dec.  3,  1734 

B.  LeRoy,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Peachey,  June  19,  1736. 
B.  Samuel,  son  of  William  and  Million  Peachey,  Dec.  16,  1749 
B.  Winifred,  dau.  of  Samuel  Peachey,  deceased,  Sept.  3d,  1750. 
D.  Captain  Samuel  Peachey,  Oct.  2d,  1750, 

B.  Elizabeth  Griffin,  dau.  of  LeRoy  and  Betty 

Peachey,  Oct.  20,  1761 

B.  Alice,  dau.  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Peachey,  July  2,  1752 
B.  Susanna,  dau.  of  William  and   Elizabeth 

Peachey,  Sept.  14,  1764 

B.  Ann,  dau.  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Peachey,  Oct.  15,  1766 


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B.  Thos.  Griffin,  son  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth Peachey,  Nov.  lo,  1770. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  and  Eliz.  Grif- 
fin Peachey,  Dec.  3,  1775. 

B.  Samuel,  son  of  LeRoy  and  Betty  Peachey,       Oct.  12,  1767. 

B.  LeRoy,  son  of  LeRoy  and  Betty  Peachey,      Aug.  21,  1770. 

B.  Ann,  dau.  of  William  and  Ann  Robinson,       Aug.  25,  1679. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  and  Ann  Rob- 
inson, Dec.  4,  1 68 1. 

B.  Bathana,  dau.  of  William  and  Ann  Rob- 
inson, Dec.  4,  1683. 

B.  Frances,  dau.  of  William  and  Ann  Rob- 
inson, Nov.   TO,  1684. 

B.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Alexander  and  Judith 

Swan,  1680. 

M.  Alexander  Swan  and  Judith  Hinds,  Nov.  15,  1678. 

B.  John,  son  of  William  and  Ann  Tayloe,  Feb.  15,  1687. 

B.  John,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Taverner,  March  7,  1682-3. 

B.  Richard,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Taverner,  July  30,  1685. 

B.  John,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Feb.  21,  1690. 

B.  James,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  May  8,  1692. 

B.   Rebecca,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Frances  Trav- 
erse, Oct.  15,  1692. 

B.  Sarah,  dau;  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Taverner,     Jan.  7,  1679, 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Tav- 
erner, March  25,  1681. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  and  Ann  Tayloe,    July  26,  1686. 

B.  William,  son  of  William  and  Ann  Tayloe,        July  30,  1694. 

B.  William,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,     March  16,  1695. 

B.  John,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Tarplev,         July  16,  1695. 

B.  Frances,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Frances  Trav- 
erse, Aug.  20,  1 69 1. 

B.  Thomas,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,        Feb.  28,  1697. 

B.   Mary,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Feb.  i,  1691. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,      Feb.  i,  1701. 

B.  John  and  Betty,  children  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Tarpley,  May  28,  1720. 

B.  Mary,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary  Tarpley,         Dec.  7,  1723. 


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B.   Edwd.  Ripping,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 

Tarpley,  Apl.  19,  1727. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Tar- 
pley, March  4,  1728-9. 

B.  John,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Sept.  29,  1729. 

B.  James,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Dec.  8,  1731. 

B.  Thomas,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Oct.  28,  1734. 

D.  William  Thornton,  Nov.  14,  1726. 

B.   Hannah,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary  Tarpley,     Jan.  6,  1735. 

B.   Lucy,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Aug.  17,  1736. 

B.  Betty,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Betty  Tarpley,  July  28,  1738. 

B.  Sarah,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Sept.  13,  1738, 

B.  John,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  Dec.  13,  1738. 

B.   Mary,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Oct.  30,  1740. 

B.   Winifred,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Betty  Tar- 
pley, Nov.  I,  1740. 

B.  Alice,  dau.  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  Nov.  24,  1742. 

B.  James,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  July  21,  1743. 

B.   Fanny,  dau.  of  Travers  and  Betty  Tarpley,  July  2,  1743. 

B.  Lucy,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Betty  Tarpley,  Jan.  7,  1745. 

B.  Betty,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Tarpley,  Aug.  6,  1746. 

B.  Saml.  Traverse,  son  of  Traverse  and  Betty 

Tarpley,  Dec.   15,  1748. 

B.  Milly,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Betty  Tarpley,  Sept.  28,  1756, 

B.  Winny,  dau.  of  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  Sept.  16,  1744. 

B.  Francis,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  Aug.  12,  1746. 

B.  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  June  3,  1748. 

B.  Caty,  dau.  of  John  and  Ann  Tarpley,  April  3,  1750. 

M.   Henry  Threllkeld  and  Eleanor  Short,  July  15,  1728. 

B.  Mary,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Under- 
wood, Oct.  20,  1687. 

B.  Seth,  son  of  Mooto  [?]  and  Ann  Underwood,     May  i,  1729- 

B.  William,  son  of  Mooto  and  Ann  Underwood,     Jan.  6,  1726. 

M.  John  Webb  and  Mary  Sanford,  July  14,  1673. 

M.  Thos.  Warring  and  Alice  Underwood,  Oct.  5,  1673. 

B.  James,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Webb,  Aug.  9,  1673. 

B.  Giles,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Webb,  Ap'l  15,  1677. 

M.   Isaac  Webb  and  Mary  Bedwell,  Ap'l  16,  1678. 

B.   Isaac,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Webb,  Dec.  18,  1681. 


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B.   William,  son  of  Paul  and  Bridg;et  Wood- 
bridge,  July  14,  1668. 

B.  John,  son  of  William  and  Sarah   Wood- 
bridge,  Nov.  24,  1706. 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  and  Sarah  Wood- 
bridge,  July  6,  1709. 

B.  Sarah,  dau.  of  William  and  Sarah  Wood- 
bridge,  Nov.  18,  1714. 

B.  Giles,  son  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,  Aug.  4,  17 14. 

B.  John  Span,  son  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,   Oct.  9,  1705. 

B.   Isaac,  son  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,         Sept.  25,  1705. 

B.   Betty,  dau.  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,  Feb.  i,  17 11. 

B.   Mary,  dau.  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,        Nov.  11,  17 17. 

B.  Cuthberth,  son  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth 

Webb,  March  3d,  17 18-19. 

B.   William,  son  of  James  and  Barbara  Webb,       May  10,  1720. 

B.  Tabitha,  dau.  of  Giles  and  Elizabeth  Webb,       Oct.  9,  1722. 

B.  Winifred,  dau.  of  Newman  and  Katherine 

Brockenbrough,  March  21,  1726. 

D.   Tabitha  Webb,  Feb.  9,  1722. 

D.  William  Woodbridge,  Nov.  14,  1727. 

B.  John,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Feb.  i,  1737. 

M.  John  Wilcox  and  Ann  Jenings,  March  2,  1729-30. 

B.   Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Oct.  30,  1739. 

B.   William,  son  of  John  Span  and  Sarah  Webb,  May  25,  1742. 

D.  James  Webb,  May  10,  1750. 

B.  Charles,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Barber,  Oct.  27,  1731. 

B.   Tarpley,  son  of  Marmaduke  and  Elizabeth 

Beckwith,  Oct.  2,  17 18. 

B.   Betty,  dau.   of   Marmaduke  and  Elizabeth 

Beckwith,  Oct.  15,  1723. 

B.   Margaret,  dau.  of  Marmaduke  and  Elizabeth 

Beckwith,  July  27,  1725. 

B.   Mary,  dau.  of  Marmaduke  and   Elizabeth 

Beckwith,  June  12,  1727. 

B.   Richard,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Beale,  Dec.  19,  1723. 

B-   Reuben,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Beale,  Dec.  19,  1725. 

B.   William,  son  of  Samuel  and  Ann  Barber,         Aug.  27,  1728. 

H.   Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Beale,         May  17,  1729. 


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B. 

B. 

B. 

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B. 

B. 

M. 

M. 

M. 

M. 

M. 

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B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 


Benjamin,  son  of  John  and  Rachel  Branham,     Dec.  i,  1728. 
Spencer  Thaddeus,  son  of  John  and  Rachel 

Branham,  Ap'l  22,  1729 

John,  son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  Barrow,  Feb.  20,  1729 
Joseph,  son  of  Caron  and  Margaret  Branham,  Ap'l  27,  1729 
Betty,  dau,  of  John  and  Rachel  Branham,  Dec.  21,  1730 
Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Barber,  Feb.  28,  1729 
Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Ann  Barber,       Jan.  16,  1 730-1 


March  16,  1726-7 

Nov.  5,  1727 

Nov.  30,  1727 

Ap'l  27,  1728 

Ap'l  29,  1729. 

May  5,  1742 


John  Branham  and  Rachel  Gower, 
James  Booth  and  Frances  Dale, 

Samuel  Barber  and  Ann  Foster, 

Thomas  Beale  and  Sarah  McCarty, 

William  Beale  and  Harwar  Harwar, 

Newman  Brockenbrough, 
Barbara,  dau.  of  Karan  and  Susan  Branham,  Ap'l  16,  1753 
Charles,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns,  Jan.  16,  1739 
Merryman,sonof  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns,  Sept.  17,  1741 
Winny,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns,  Ap'l  11,  1743 
Annot,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns,  June  24,  1745 
Million,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns,  Dec.  30,  1747 
Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Winifred  Barns, 
Francis  Kenyon,  son  of  Charles  and  Mary 

Barber, 
Samuel,  son  of  Charles  and  Ann  Barns, 
Traverse,  son  of  Charles  and  Ann  Barns, 
Caty,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Ann  Barns, 
Thaddeus,  son  of  George  and  Betty  Barns, 
Newman,  son  of  Newman  B.  and  Lucy  Butler 

Barns,  Ap'l  14,  1769 

Morton,  son  of  Newman  B.  and  Lucy  Butler  Barns,  1771 
Edward,  son  of  Samuel  and  Betty  Butler,  Aug.  27,  1770 
Frances,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Mary  Barber,  Aug.  6,  1774 
John,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Barber, 
Luce,  dau.  of  William  and  Betty  Barber, 
Nancy,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Barns, 
Milly,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Ellison  Barns, 
Newman,  son  of  Samuel  and  Betty  Barns, 
Rauleigh,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth 

Davenport,  Sept.  28,  1741. 


Dec.  6,  1748 

July  12,  1768 
March  10,  1764, 
Feb.  15,  1760 
July  25,  1768 
July  27,  1768 


Dec. 

II, 

1776 

Ap'l 

14. 

1780 

Oct. 

28, 

1781 

Dec. 

24» 

1781 

Jan. 

14, 

1729 

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B.   Lindsay,   son   of   William   and    Elizabeth 

Davenport,  Ap*l  22,  1744. 

B.  Robert  Porteus,  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza- 
beth Downman,  May  6,  1744 

B.   Elizabeth,  dau.  of  William  and  Elizabeth 

Davenport,  Dec.  27,  1749 

B.   Mildred,    dau.   of   Robert  and    Elizabeth 

Downman,  March  4,  1749 

B.  Ann,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Grace  Down- 
man,  Sept.  21,  1748 

B.  Grace,  dau.  of  Traverse  and  Grace  Down- 
man,  Oct,  4,  1750,  and  died  Oct.  11,  1750. 

B.  Betty,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Downman,        Jan.  10,  1750. 

B.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 

Downman,  Feb.  21,  1752 

B.  Rauleigh,    son  of  Robert   and    Elizabeth 

Downman,  .  March  26,  1752 

B.  Opie,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Dav- 
enport, Ap*l  29,  1752 

B.   Lucy,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Downman,       Aug.  30,  1752 

B.   Rauleigh,   son   of   Robert   and    Elizabeth 

Downman,  Sept.  5,  1752 

B.  Winny,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Downman,       Dec.  26,  1753 

B.   Ann,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Downman,       Dec.     9,  1755 

D.   Elizabeth,  wife  of  Robert  Downman,  1756. 

B.   Fanny,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Downman,        Ap*l  18,  1757 

D.   Margaret  Downman,  Sept.  20,  1758 

B.  Rauleigh,  son  of  James  and  Lucy  Down- 
man,  Sept.  20,  1758 

B.  George,  son  of  Fortunatus  and  Elizabeth 

Davenport,  Dec.  7,  1760. 

B.  William,    son    of    Robert    and    Elizabeth 

Downman,  Ap'l  15,  1741 

B.  Traverse,  son  of  James  and  Lucy  Down- 
man,  Jan.  20,  1760, 

B.  Priscilla,  dau.  of  James  and  Lucy  Down- 
man,  March  5,  1762 

B.   Winifred,  dau.  of  Rauleigh  and  Elizabeth 

Downman,  Aug.  11,  1767 


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B. 

B. 

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B. 

B. 

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D. 
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B. 


William,  son  of  Rauleigh  and  Elizabeth 
Downman, 

Joseph,  son  of  Fortunatus  and  Elizabeth 
Davenport, 

Betty  Heale,  dau.  of  Fortunatus  and  Eliz- 
abeth Davenport, 

Rachel,  dau.  of  Fortunatus  and  Elizabeth 
Davenport, 

John,  son  of  Fortunatus  and  Elizabeth 
Davenport, 

William  Davenport, 

Frances  Porteus,  dau.  of  Robu  and  Elizabeth 


Ap'l  26, 
Sept.  7, 
May  19, 


1769 


1759 
1765 
Feb.  27,  1767 


Ap'l  23, 
Aug.  7, 


1769 
1771 


Jan.  10,  1772 


Downman, 
Richard,  son  of  Rawleigh  and  Elizabeth 

Downman,  May  28,  1776 

Gilbert  Hamilton  and  Ann  Beale,  Nov.  4,  1732 
William,  son  of  Revd.  William  and  Barbara 

McKay,  June  16,  1745 
Katherine,  dau.  of  Rev.  William  and  Bar- 
bara McKay,  Dec.  13,  1757 
Billington,  son  of  Bullington  and  Eliza  Mc- 

Carty,  March  18,  1759 

Thaddeus,  son  of  Bullington  and  Eliza  Mc- 

Carty,  Sept.  i,  1763 
Fanny,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Winny  McCarty,  Aug.  3,  1765 
Elizabeth  Downman,  dau.  of  Billington  and 

Elizabeth  McCarty,  Nov.  30,  1768 

James  Hawks,  son  of  James  and  Ann  Webb,  Nov.  20,  1750 

Amy,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Nov.  20,  1750. 

Ann,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Jan.  22,  1753 

Priscilla,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  June  6,  1754 

Giles,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Jan.  25,  1756 

Frances,  dau.  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Feb.  6,  1755 

Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Nov.  15,  1740. 

Sarah  Webb,  Aug.  25,  1754 

John  Webb,  May  3,  1756 

Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Nov.  19,  1758 

Giles,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Nov.  9,  1741 

James,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  Sept.  11,  1743, 


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B.  Cuthbert,  son  of  Isaac  and  Frances  Webb,  June  i,  1745. 
B.  Sarah,  dau.  of  John  and  Clare  Webb,  Oct.  20,  1761. 
B.  William  Traverse,  son  of  William  and  Eliz- 
abeth Peachey,  Jan.  7,  1773. 


CARTER  PAPERS. 


An  inventory  of  all  the  s     *     *     *     and  personal 

PROPERTY    OF    THE     Hon'BLE     RoBERT     CaRTER   OF   THE 

COUNTY  OF  Lancaster,  Esq.,  Deceased,  taken  as  di- 
rected in  his  last  will,  vizt. 


(Condensed  and  concluded. ) 


Old  Sary,  Old  Crabbe,  past  labor — 26  in  all.  52  sheep,  one 
horse,  63  cattle. 

I  large  pott  and  hooks,  2  old  Do.,  i  pestle,  2  wedges,  i  Tin- 
pan,  3  Earthware  pans,  i  Grindstone. 

Wolf  House  Quarter,  Thomas  Wrenn,  overseer.  Cap- 
tain, foreman,  and  ten  other  negroes;  about  30  hogs,  23  .sheep, 
I  horse,  55  cattle,  a  fowling  piece,  pott  and  hooks,  a  pestle,  wed- 
ges, flock  bed  and  bolster,  rug  and  blankets. 

Corotoman  Quarter,  John  Buckles,  overseer.  Charles, 
foreman,  and  18  other  negroes,  35  hogs,  30  sheep,  i  horse,  55 
cattle,  pots  &  hooks,  grindstone,  wedges,  &c. 

Hills  Quarter,  Charles  Jones,  overseer.  Ben,  foreman, 
and  14  other  negroes,  60  hogs,  26  sheep,  97  cattle,  pot  and 
hooks,  pestle,  wedges,  grindstone,  an  old  musquet,  an  old  sword, 
&c. 

Goods  at  Hills  Quarter  formerly  belonging  to  the  estate  of 
John  Cooke,  decased:  A  square  table,  a  small  table,  a  small  oval 
table,  chairs,  chests,  feather  bed,  3  old  pewter  candlesticks,  2 
old  pewter  tankards,  i  iron  chaffing  dish,  i  brass  do.,  &c. 

The  Vestry  House.  For  the  use  of  the  Church  Workman. 
Criss,  a  young  negro  man,  cook,  2  feather  beds,  2  bolsters  and 
pillows,  &c. 


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Brick  House  Quarter.  Thos.  Talken,  overseer.  Harry, 
foreman,  and  19  other  negroes,  63  sheep,  2  horses,  45  hogs,  46 
cattle,  a  grindstone,  156  lbs  wool,  pot  &  hooks,  &c. 

The  following  household  goods  in  the  hall  (at  Brick  House 
Quarter):  bed,  rug,  blankets,  curtains,  bedstead,  3  leather 
chairs,  cushions,  4  cane  chairs,  one  old  elbow  chair,  a  chest  of 
drawers,  3  silver  spoons,  2  silver  cups,  a  funnel,  a  small  cabinet, 
2  sets  silver  buttons  with  stones  in  them,  2  pair  do. ,  one  silver 
seal,  Mr.  Jackson's  stamp,  &c.,  table  with  drawers. 

In  the  Chamber:  feather  beds,  chairs,  rugs,  &c. 

Up  stairs:  An  old  Wooden  couch,  a  chest  with  125  books  in 
it,  chairs,  steelyard,  cordial  cup,  one  do.  with  cover,  one  case  of 
old  pistils  and  holsters. 

In  the  closet  under  the  stairs:  brass  scales,  brass  warming  pan, 
Mr.  Jackson's  old  branding  iron,  3  pr.  brick  moulds,  &c. 

In  the  kitchen:  pewter  dishes  &  plates,  bread  grater,  bell 
metal  skillet,  morter  &  pestle,  spits,  fire  tongs,  pot  &  hooks, 
pewter  mustard  pot,  saws»  pot  rack,  spit  rack,  pot,  trunk,  brass 
ketde,  &c. 

Small  Mill.  John  Holmes,  miller.  Bed,  &c.,  mill  pecks, 
iron  crows,  handsaw,  sledge  hammer,  small  smith's  hammer,  old 
spades,  old  shovels,  old  grubbing  hoes,  cold  chizzel,  &c. 

Sundry  goods  in  the  Brick  House  Store,  under  the  care  of 
Captain  Thomas  Carter:  Gartrix,  Renting,  blew  linnen,  Patter- 
bons,  Dowlas,  brown  oz.,  ticking,  fine  chince,  fine  broad  falls, 
fine  Devon.  Kersey,  Shalloon,  men's  roll,  knit  hose,  short  hose, 
women's  wash  gloves,  men's  gloves,  blankets,  boots,  shoes, 
men's  &  women's;  men's  new  woodheeled  shoes,  round  red 
heeled  do.,  spectacles  in  case,  men's  felts,  men's  casters,  pr. 
scales  &  weights,  money  scales,  thread,  cloves,  drop  shot,  mould 
shot,  brass  kettles,  bell  metal  skillets,  double  flint  decanters, 
tape,  gunpowder,  mohair,  tin  buttons,  other  buttons,  brads, 
broad  hoes,  brass  chaffing  dishes,  brass  &  iron  candlesticks,  pad- 
locks, hasps  &  staples,  pewter  basin,  lead  inkstand,  knives  and 
forks,  ivory  combs,  horse  combs,  sheepshead  lines,  drum  hooks, 
perch  hooks,  sifters,  lawn  searches,  i  grammer,  2  testaments, 
chests,  trunk,  leather  chair. 

Sundry  goods  in  the  Brick  House  Store,  formerly  belonging 
to  the  Estate  of  Mrs.  Mary  Swan,  under  the  care  of  Captain 


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Thomas  Carter:  Holland  sheets,  holland  pillow  case,  sheets  and 
pillow  cases,  towells,  cotton  table  cloth,  table  cloths,  napkins, 
blankets,  a  child*s  mantle,  bed  quilt,  cradle  quilt,  counterpins,  5 
yards  Virginia  cloth,  2  fire  fans,  i  old  scarfe,  i  pr.  old  stays  & 
stomacher,  i  old  quilted  waistcoat,  i  boy's  coat  &  vest,  i  old 
pettycoat,  old  gloves,  2  Bermuda  baskets. 

A  small  powdering  table,  a  brass  cock,  smoothing  irons,  stock 
locks,  a  cooper's  howell,  2  cheese  presses,  i  larding  spoon,  2 
tea  tables,  4  old  wooden  bowls,  a  wooden  ft-uit  stand,  i  pr.  old 
brass  snuffers  &  stand. 

A  box  with  pickle  bottles,  &c,  A  box  with  case  bottles,  A 
chest  with  32  old  books,  a  bread  tray  &  16  quart  bottles,  an  old 
picture,  &c. 

Gibson's  Place.  Ezericum  Crowder,  overseer.  6  negroes, 
26  hogs,  25  cattle,  pot  &  hooks,  &c. 

Poplar  Neck  Quarter.  John  McGrigor,  overseer.  Sam, 
foreman,  and  five  other  negroes,  45  hogs,  42  cattle,  pot  and 
hooks,  &c. 

Office  Quarter.  Alexander  Pour,  overseer.  Sawney, 
foreman,  and  6  other  negroes,  1 1  sheep,  24  hogs,  35  cattle,  pots, 
pestle,  grubbing  hoes,  &c. 

Great  Mill.  John  McNamanah,  miller.  17  hogs,  i  cow, 
mill  pecks,  iron  crow,  handsaw,  clawhammer,  handsaw,  sledge- 
hammer, broad  ax,  grindstone,  spades,  pot  &  hooks,  leather 
bed  &  bolster,  &c. 

Marratico  Quarter.  John  Webb,  overseer.  Toney, 
foreman,  and  7  other  negroes,  one  mare,  36  hogs,  42  cattle, 
pots,  &c. 

Jones  Place,  Northumberland  co.  Thos.  Crowder,  over- 
seer. Tom,  foreman,  and  16  other  negroes,  30  sheep,  i  horse, 
88  hogs,  51  cattle,  pot,  musquet,  grubbing  hoes,  &c. 

Blough  Point  Quarter.  Thos.  West,  overseer.  Sam, 
foreman,  and  18  other  negroes,  3  horses,  40  sheep,  93  cattle,  81 
hogs,  &c. 

Old  Place.  Dennis  Sullivan,  overseer.  Michael,  foreman, 
and  7  other  negroes,  36  sheep,  i  mare,  75  hogs,  66  cattle,  &c. 

Fielding's  Place.  Robert  Hews,  overseer.  Joe,  foreman, 
and  5  other  negroes,  24  sheep,  25  hogs,  33  cattle,  &c. 


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The  following  plantations  in  the  countys  of  Richmond  and 
Westmoreland,  under  the  care  of  Mr.  Simon  Sallard,  vizt. : 

Richmond  County, 

Brick  House  Quarter.  Simon  Sallard,  overseer.  Ralph, 
foreman,  &  6  other  negroes,  3  horses,  9  hogs,  14  catde,  an  ox 
cart,  yoakes  &  chaine,  &c.,  and  the  following  household  goods: 
an  old  scrutorie,  9  old  cane  chairs,  3  old  leather  chairs,  i  old 
looking  glass,  i  Turkey  Work  cushion,  i  small  picture,  small 
picture,  i  leather  bed,  bolsters,  &c.,  i  standing  bedstead,  &c. 
In  the  hall:  2  oval  tables,  11  old  leather  chairs,  4  old  chests, 
scales,  angles,  linnen  wheel,  old  gun,  one  very  large  old  gun, 
&c.  In  the  Chamber  closet:  i  earthenware  suUibub  pott,  i  tin 
candlebox,  i  tin  cullender,  &c.  In  the  pantry:  i  tin  watering 
pott,  iron  chaffing  dish,  i  pr.  sheep  shears,  &c.  In  the  cham- 
ber above  stairs:  2  bed  steads,  &c.  In  the  kitchen:  i  copper 
still,  25  galls.,  I  large  kettle,  pewter  dishes  &  tankard,  i  tin 
fiower  [flour]  box,  i  dripping  pan,  i  flesh  fork,  &c.  In  the  hall 
closet:  I  cart  bridle,  &c.  Loose:  3  old  flagg  chairs,  a  spinning 
wheel,  a  broken  box  iron,  &c. 

Fork  Quarter.  William  Galloway,  overseer.  Old  Jack, 
foreman,  &  15  other  negroes,  42  hogs,  54  cattle,  &c. 

Old  Quarter.  Wm.  Dryas,  overseer.  Old  Oliver,  fore- 
man, &  17  other  negroes,  7  horses,  49  hogs,  59  cattle,  &c. 

GuMFiELDS  Quarter.  Wm.  Dryas,  overseer.  Jack,  fore- 
man, &  20  other  negroes,  3  horses,  35  hogs,  39  cattle,  &c. 

HiccoRV  Thicket.  John  Sibly,  overseer.  Tom,  foreman, 
&  24  other  negroes,  4  horses,  44  hogs,  44  cattle,  &c. 

Bridge  Quarter.  Charles  Cambell,  overseer.  Tom,  fore- 
man, &  8  other  negroes,  41  hogs,  30  cattle,  &c. 

ToTUSKEV  Quarter.  John  Gary,  overseer.  Ebo  George, 
foreman,  &  9  other  negroes,  40  hogs,  90  cattle,  &c. 

HiNSON*s  Quarter.  Wm.  Crane,  overseer.  Will,  fore- 
man, &  II  other  negroes,  3  horses,  19  hogs,  77  cattle,  19  hogs, 
&c. 

Dickinson's  Mill.  James  Young,  miller.  17  hogs,  rugs, 
blankets,  flock  bed,  &c.  [as  at  the  other  mills.] 


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Westmoreland  County, 

Pantico  Quarter.     George  Bynd,  overseer.     James,  fore- 
man, and  21  other  negroes,  4  horses,  18  hogs,  31  catrie,  &c. 

Brent's   Quarter.     Murphy  Brand,  overseer.     Will,  fore- 
man, &  32  other  negroes,  49  hogs,  56  cattle,  &c. 

The  other  places  named  in  the  inventory,  are  Old  Ordinary, 
James  Whaley,  overseer;  Moon's  Place,  James  Whaley,  over- 
seer; Medcalfe  Place,  John  Orden,  overseer;  Head  of  the 
River,  Henry  Lawrence,  overseer;  Coles  Point,  Thos.  Curtis, 
overseer;  The  Narroes,  Thos.  Curtis,  overseer;  Forrest  Quarter, 
Jeremiah  Bryan,  overseer;  Dilk's  Quarter,  John  Walker,  over- 
seer; the  "Place  formerly  belonging  to  Mr.  Thos.  Glascock 
in  Richmond  county;" — in  Caroline  county;  Penmond's  End, 
Harry  Bell,  overseer.  And  '*The  following  plantations  in  the 
countys  of  King  George,  Stafford,  Spotsylvania  and  Prince 
William,  vizt:  Falls  Quarter,  King  George  county,  (servants, 
Neal  Forster  till  26  of  August  to  serve;  Eleanor  Robinson 
a  year  to  serve,  &  the  negroes  here  included,  2  sawyers  and  4 
carpenters);  Richland  Quarter,  John  Cole  overseer;  Park 
Quarter,  Stafford  county;  James  Seben,  overseer;  Hamstead 
Quarter,  John  Hurt,  overseer;  Poplar  Quarter,  Wm.  Thrail- 
kild,  overseer;  Hinson's  Quarter,  James  Peters,  overseer;  Nor- 
man's Ford,  Spotsylvania  county,  Roger  Oxford,  overseer; 
(Matthew  Tool,  foreman,  6  months  to  serve);  Mount  Quarter, 
Wm.  Johnson,  overseer;  Red  Oak  Quarter,  Prince  Wm.  county, 
Jt3hn  Wilcox,  overseer;  Lodge  Quarter,  Timothy  Dargon,  over- 
seer; **at  the  plantation  belonging  to  Charles  Carter,  Esq., 
called  Range  Quarter,"  Wm.  White,  overseer;  "at  the  planta- 
tion belonging  to  the  estate  of  Robert  Carter,  Jun.,  Esq.,  on  the 
Bull  Run  ";  Frying  Pan  Quarter,  Fortunatus  Sydnor,  overseer; 
(Wm.  Marshall,  servant,  a  year  to  serve).  On  these  quarters 
and  plantations  (exclusive  of  those  separably  enumerated)  were 
315  negroes,  50  horses,  898  head  of  catde,  835  hogs,  and  132 
sheep.  The  character  of  the  furniture  and  utensils  in  all  of  these 
quarters  was  so  much  the  same,  that  the  examples  already  given, 
show  fully  the  nature  of  all. 


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(502)  Thomas  Markham,  300  acres  rn  the  County  of  Henrico, 
on  Four  Mile  Creek,  and  adjoining  Bayly's  land,  and  Curies. 
Due  (vizt.)  100  acres  in  right  of  his  wife  Susan,  the  relict  of 
Robert  Greenleafe,  to  whom  (R.  G.)  it  was  due  as  an  ancient 
planter  in  the  time  of  Sir  Thomas  Dale;  50  for  her  own  personal 
adventure,  50  for  the  personal  adventure  of  the  Said  Thomas 
Markham,  and  100  for  the  transportation  of  two  persons,  John 
Foker  and  Richard  Hall.     By  Harvey,  July  11,  1637. 


(501)  William  Farrar,  son  and  heir  of  William  Farrar, 
late  of  Henrico,  deceased;  2,000  acres  at  Henrico,  bounded  on 
the  east  by  the  Glebe  land  of  Varina,  and  extending  westerly  to 
the  bottom  of  the  island  [i].  If  2,000  acres  is  not  to  be  found 
by  a  survey  within  these  boundaries,  the  amount  required  is  to 
be  taken  on  the  westerly  bounds.  Due  for  the  transportation  of 
forty  persons  (names  below).     By  Harvey,  June  11,  1637. 

Thomas  Williams,  Richard  Johnson,  Jon.  Hely,  Jon.  Fraine, 
Eustace  Downes,  Jon.  Pead,  Edw*d.  Fewson.  Richard  Greete, 
James  Rigby,  Jon.  Pratt,  Elizabeth  Foster,  Jon.  Hares,  Henry 
Gyllam,  William  Thomas,  Jon.  Baker,  Patrick  Robinson,  Chris- 
topher Penkhome,  Matthew  Warrener,  Jon.  Smith,  William 
Towers,  William  Baker,  Edward  Hooke,  May  Heynes,  John 
Garner,  William  Richardson,  Jon.  Howman,  Matthew  Brown- 
ridge.  Robert  Lewd,  Jon.  Gibson,  Jon.  Price,  Fr.  Posly,  James 
Roberts,  Robert  Turner,  William  Dawson,  Giles  Crump,  Richard 
Ganer.  Howell  Edmonds,  Martin  Durrock,  Henry  Howell,  Rob- 
ert Coleman. 

NOTE. 

[i]  The  peninsular  in  Henrico  County  nearly  surrounded  by 
James  River,  and  now  actually  made  an  Island  by  the  Dutch 
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known  as  '*Farrar*s  Island.**       From  the  Farrar's  the  estate 
passed  by  sale  to  the  Randolphs. 


(504)  Richard  Greete,  300  acres  in  the  County  of  Henrico, 
adjoining  the  land  of  Thomas  Sheppy  on  Four  Mile  Creek.  Due 
as  follows  ( vizt. ) :  250  acres  for  the  transportation  of  his  three 
wives,  and  two  servants.(names  below)  and  50  acres  in  right  of 
Sarah  Delohay,  wife  of  Gannigall  Delohay,  who  surrendered 
his  claim  for  her  transportation  to  the  said  Richard  Greete.  By 
Harvey,  July  11,  1637. 

Eleanor  Greete,  Alice  Greete,  Margaret  Thomas,  his  three 
wives;  John  Howell  and  Richard ,  (servants)  Sarah  Delo- 
hay. 

(505)  Mary  Box,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Box,  300  acres 
in  the  County  of  Henrico,  on  Swift  Creek,  by  Appomattuck 
river,  and  adjoining  the  land  of  Charles  Morgan,  now  in  posses- 
sion of  William  Hay  ward.  Due;  100  for  the  personal  adventure 
of  her  father,  an  ancient  planter,  and  200  for  the  transportation 
of  her  mother,  Mary  Box,  and  three  servants,  Thomas  Neale, 

Edward  Holland  and    William  .       By  Harvey,  July  12, 

1637- 

(506)  Captain  Thomas  Harris  [i],  700  acres  in  the  County 
of  Henrico,  called  by  the  name  of  the  Long  Field,  beginning  at 
a  little  creek  over  against  the  land  of  Captain  Martin  and  extend- 
ing westward  on  the  main  river,  southeast  towards  "Bremoes 
Dividend"  [2].  Due  as  follows:  400  acres  granted  to  Edward 
Gurganey  by  order  of  Court  Oct.  ist,  1617,  from  the  late 
Treasurer  and  Company,  and  bequeathed  by  Ann,  widow  of  the 
said  Edward  Gurganey  to  the  said  Thomas  Harris  by  her  will 
dated  Feb.  11,  16 19;  and  300  acres  due  for  the  transportation 
of  six  persons  [names  not  given].  Granted  by  Harvey,  May 
12,  1637. 

notes. 
[1]  Sec-  ref<*renc*.  page  49  of  this  number. 
[2]  Brtmo,  lung  the  residence  of  a  branch  of  the  Cocke  family. 


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(507)  Francis  Poythers  [i],  400  acres  in  the  County  of 
Charles  City,  lying  north  upon  the  land  now  in  possession  of  said 
Poythers;  and  bounded  on  the  east  by  the  land  of  Captain 
Woodliffe,  and  on  the  west  by  Baylye's  Creek.  Due  for  the 
transportation  of  said  Francis  Poythers,  Richard  Wells,  Jane 
Lucas,  Thos.  Thompson,  Richard  Fermer,  Bryan  Raycock, 
Francis  Hewes  and  Richard  Whiting.  Granted  by  Harvey,  July 
13.  1637. 

NOTE. 

[i]  The  earlier  portion  of  the  following  account  of  the  Poythress 
family  is  derived  chiefly  from  the  memoranda  of  a  descendant, 
now  dead.  As  he  gave  but  few  authorities  for  his  statements 
this  pedigree,  as  far  as  relates  to  the  early  portion,  may  be  re- 
garded as  tentative.  The  account  is  certainly  correct  as  far  as 
relates  to  the  descendants  of  Joshua  and (Peachy)  Poy- 
thress. This  has  been  recently  revised  by  a  member  of  the 
family.     Later,  extracts  from  various  records  will  be  given. 

Capt.  Francis'  Poythress  came  to  Virginia  about  1633,  was 
burgess  for  Charles  City  1645;  commanded  against  the  Indians 
in  the  same  year;  bu  gess  for  Charles  City  1647  ^^^  ^^r  Northum- 
berland 1649.     He  married and  had  (besides,  according 

to  tradition,  a  daughter  who  married  Thomas  Rolfe)a  son  Major 
Francis*  Poythress,  Justice  for  Charles  City  1677;  married  Re- 
becca   ,  and  had  issue: 

1.  John,*  burgess  for  Charles  City,  1723;  married . 

2.  Francis,*  married . 

Issue  of  John  *  and Poythress: 

1.  Col.  William,*  born  1695.  died  June  18,  1763;  vestryman 
of  Bristol  Parish,  1726;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Col.  Francis 
Eppes. 

2.  Col.  Peter,*  of  *'  Flower  de  Hundred,"  Prince  George 
County;  married  . 

Issue  of  Col.  William  *  and  Sarah  (Eppes)  Poythress: 
Richard '  married  daughter  of  Peter  Poythress,  of  *  *  Flower 
de  Hundred,"  and  had  two  sons: 

1.  William,*  County  Lieutenant  of  Prince  George,  1779;  mar- 
ried   . 

2.  Joshua,* of  "  Flower  de  Hundred,"  married Peachy. 

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Issue  of  Joshua  *  and Peachy  Poy thress : 

1.  Joshua/  married  about  1780.  Elizabeth  Robertson  (aunt  of 
Governor  Wyndham  Robertson)  and  had  Susan  Peachy,  who 
married  John  V.  Wilcox,  of  Petersburg. 

2.  William,^  married  Mary  Gilliam. 

3.  Elizabeth,^  married  James  Cocke  and  inherited  the  Bonac- 
cord  estate,  Prince  George  county. 

4.  Susan  Ann,^  born  1766,  died  Feb.  19,  1799,  and  married 
David  Maitland,  of  Blandford. 

Issue  of  William  ^  and  Mary  Gilliam  Poy  thress: 

1.  Joshua,'  married  Jane  Angus. 

2.  Thomas*  Eppes,  married  Mrs.  Harrison. 

3.  William,*  died  unmarried. 

4.  Patrick*  Henry,  married  Elizabeth  Eppes. 
Issue  of  Joshua*  and  Jane  (Angus)  Poythress: 
Nancy,'  married  ist,  Robert  Harrison;  2nd,  John  Crane. 
Issue  of  Patrick  Henry*  and  Elizabeth  (Eppes)  Poythress: 

1.  William  Peterson, 'born  1810;  died  1862;  married  Charlotte 
Reed. 

2.  Mary,*  died  unmarried. 

3.  A.  H.,*  died  unmarried. 

4.  Thos.  Eppes,*  died  unmarried. 

Issue  of  William  P.*  and  Charlotte  (Reed)  Poythress: 

1.  Mary  P.,'"  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Patrick  **  Henry  died  unmarried. 

3.  William  P.,**  married  Louisa  C.  Mayo. 

4.  Sarah  Reed,"  unmarried. 

5.  Walter  Eppes, '*  married  Mary  Josephine  Brouse;  died  Sept. 
12,  1888. 

Issue  of  William  P.'*  and  Louisa  (Mayo)  Poythress. 

1.  Daughter,"  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Charlotte"  Reed,  unmarried. 

Issue  of  Col.   Peter*  and  Poythress,  of  "Flower  de 

Hundred:" 

Anne,*  born  Dec.  13,  1712;  died  April  9,  1758;  only  child 
and  heir;  married  Richard  Bland,  of  "Jordan's  Point,"  Prince 
George  county. 

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THE  FOOTE  FAMILY. 

The  following  genealogy  is  derived  chiefly  from  an  old  register  of 
births,  a  copy  of  which  was  kindly  furnished  by  Mrs.  Stuart,  of  '*  Cedar 
Grove,"  King  George  county,  Va.;  the  register  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Staf- 
ford; a  manuscript  account  of  the  family,  prepared  in  1838,  by  Robert 
Hord,  of  "Shady  Grove,*'  Caroline  county,  Va.,  for  which  I  am  in- 
debted to  Rev.  Arnold  H.  Hord,  Holmesburg,  Pa.;  and  wills,  deeds, 
&c.,  recorded  in  Stafford,  Prince  William,  and  Fauquier  counties,  to- 
gether with  a  few  notes  from  the  records  of  other  counties. 

The  old  register  begins:  "  Richard  Foote,  son  of  John  Foote,  Gent., 
was  bom  at  Cardenham,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall,  the  loth  day  of  Au- 
gust, An'o  1632.  Was  married  the  19th  day  of  Dec'r,  1657,  to  his  be- 
loved wife  Hester,  the  daughter  of  Nicholas  Hayward,  of  London,  Gro- 
cer, who  was  bom  in  Alhallows  Parish,  the  24th  day  of  March,  1639-40." 

The  Footes  were  an  old  family  in  Comwall.  In  Burk's  Commoners, 
I,  372,  in  an  account  of  a  branch  of  the  family  which  settled  in  Kent,  it 
is  stated  that  "this  family  [the  Footes]  possessed  large  estates  in  the 
county  of  Comwall  prior  to  1420,  but  in  consequence  of  a  difference  of 
opinion  during  the  War  of  the  Roses,  the  greater  part  wa$  left  to  the 
younger  branch."  The  arms  of  the  Footes  are:  Veri,  a  chevron  between 
3  martlets^  argent.     Crest:  A  lion' s  head  erased.     Motto:  Pendentim. 

Samuel  Foote,  the  famous  actor  and  dramatist,  was  bom  in  1720,  at 
Tmro,  Comwall.  He  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Foote  (1679-1754),  who 
entered  the  Inner  Temple,  1697,  and  who  was  Mayor  of  Tmro,  and 
Member  Parliament  for  Tiverton. 

Nicholas  Hayward,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Foote,  carried  on  an  extensive 
trade  with  Virginia.  There  is  recorded  in  Northumberland  county,  a 
power  o(  attomey,  dated  July  25,  1652,  and  another,  recorded  in  the 
same  county,  dated  October  18,  1655,  from  Nicholas  Hayward,  of  Lon- 
don, merchant,  to  his  "servant"  [an  example  of  the  use  of  the  word 
with  the  meaning  of  employee],  Richard  Foote,  authorizing  him  to 
manage  said  Hayward's  business  in  Virginia,  and  in  case  of  his  death, 
to  Gifford  Longe,  and  if  he  died,  to  Ferdinando  Fairfax.  There  is 
another  power  of  attorney  from  Hayward,  dated  September,  1659,  and 
recorded  in  Northumberland,  to  Nicholas  Spencer,  of  London,  mer- 
chant, and  to  Captain  Samuel  Tilghman,  commander  of  the  ship  "called 
the  Golden  Fortune."  In  Febmary,  1659,  Ferdinando  Fairfax,  one  of 
Mr.  Hayward's  agents,  made  a  deposition  in  Northumberland  county, 
in  which  he  stated  his  age  as  19  years.  Nicholas  Hayward,  the  elder, 
had  several  children;  one  Nicholas  Hayward,  of  London,  merchant  and 


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notary  public^,  who  is  so  often  mentioned  in  the  letters  of  William  Fitz- 
hugh,  which  have  been  published  in  this  Magazine;  another,  name  un- 
known, who  came  to  Virginia  and  soon  died;  and  a  third,  Samuel,  who 
also  settled  in  Virginia,  and  was  clerk  of  Stafford  county,  and  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  It  is  probable  that  Mrs.  Martha  Hayward, 
of  Stafford  county,  sister  of  the  immigrants  John  and  Lawrence  Wash- 
ington, whose  will  was  published  in  the  NcUion,  November  21,  1892,  was 
the  wife  of  Samuel  Hayward.  About  1689,  Nicholas  Hayward,  the 
younger,  together  with  his  brother,  Richard  Foote,  Robert  Bristow  (the 
last  two,  merchants,  of  London),  and  George  Brent,  of  '*  Woodstock," 
in  Virginia,  purchased  from  the  proprietors  of  the  Northern  Neck,  30,000 
acres  of  land,  in  the  present  Prince  William  county,  then  in  Stafford, 
which  they  called  Brent  Town,  or  Brenton.  Portions  of  this  land  long 
remained  in  the  possession  of  the  descendants  of  the  four  purchasers. 

There  is  on  record  in  Prince  William,  a  deed,  dated  August  31,  1741, 
from  Samuel  Hayward,  **  His  Majesty's  Counsul  at  all  the  Islands  under 
the  Venetian  Government  in  the  Levant,  now  residing  in  the  Island  of 
Zante,"  conveying  to  Henry  Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford  county,  Va.,  gent., 
1,000  acres  of  the  Brent  Town  tract.  As  Nicholas  Hayward,  the  elder, 
was  a  member  of  the  Grocers  Company,  it  is  probable  that  the  records 
of  that  company  would  show  his  parentage.  Richard  Foote,  the  elder, 
was  just  twenty  years  old  when  he  came  to  Virginia  as  agent  for  Nicho- 
las Hayward,  and  five  years  later,  he  attained  what  was  in  old  London 
life  the  ideal  of  success  and  happiness;  and  which  from  Dick  Whitting- 
ton  to  Lord  Mayor  Sir  Thomas  Osborne  (ancestor  of  the  Dukes  of 
Leeds)  and  even  later,  to  the  time  of  Hogarth,  was  the  highest  reward 
for  the  young  citizen — married  his  master's  daughter.  Nothing  more  is 
known  of  him,  except  that  he  appears  to  have  become  a  successful  mer- 
chant in  London. 

Richard  and  Hester  (Hayward)  Foote  had  (as  shown  by  the  register) 
the  following  children : 

I.  Susannah,  was  bom  the  13th  day  of  August  An*o,  1658,  and  died; 
2.  Samuel,  was  born  the  25th  of  January,  1659-60,  and  died  the  27th  of 
March,  1697,  and  was  buried  at  Windsor;  3.  Mar\',  was  bom  the  first  of 
October,  1662,  and  was  buried  the  19th  of  May,  Anno,  1664,  in  St.  Ben- 
nett Sherehog  Church;  4.  John,  was  bom  the  27th  of  March,  1665,  died 
the  20th  of  October,  1692,  at  Jamaica;  5.  Richard  [the  first  of  the  family 
to  settle  pennanently  in  Virginia]  was  bom  the  31st  of  January,  1666;  6. 
Elizabeth,  was  bom  the  27th  of  October,  1668;  7.  Mary,  was  bom  the 
loth  of  January,  1670,  and  died  October  following;  8.  Hester,  was  bom 
the  8th  of  December,  died  the  i8th,  and  was  buried  the  19th,  1672;  9. 
George,  was  born  the  22d  October,  and  baptised  the  6th  of  November, 
1673;  10.  Sarah,  was  bom  the  22d  October,  1675,  baptised  the  23d,  and 
buried  at  St.  Bennett  Sherehog  Church,  1675;  11.  Sarah,  was  bom  the 
27th  of  June,  and  baptised  the  9th  of  July,  1676;  12.  Francis,  was  born 


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the  8th  of  JanuaOi  and  baptistrd  23d,  1678,  and  died  the  ist  April,  1697, 
and  buried  the  3d;  13.  Henry,  was  bom  the  5th  of  July,  and  baptised  the 
5th  day,  1680;  14.  Mathias,  was  bom  the  13th  of  December,  1683,  and 
was  baptised  the  same  day;  died  20th  July,  1683. 

•).  Richard*  Foote,  the  younger,  bom  January  31,  1666,  came  to  Vir- 
ginia towards  the  end  of  the  17th  century,  and  settled  in  Stafford  county, 
where  he  died,  March  21,  1729  {S^.  PauPs  Register).  On  September 
30,  1701,  he  was  commissioned  a  justice  of  Stafford.  Owing  to  the  de- 
struction of  the  records  of  that  county;  but  little  can  be  learned  concern- 
ing him.  In  November,  1702,  the  County  Court  ordered  tiiat  "Mr. 
Richard  Foote  "  be  paid  860  p>ounds  of  tobacco  for  powder  for  pro- 
claiming the  Queen  at  the  same  time  Nathaniel  Pope  was  paid  400 
pounds  tobacco  for  reading  the  proclamation).  His  will  was  dated 
April  15,  1724,  and  though  it  was  destroyed,  is  cited  in  a  deed  from 
Thomas  Booth,  Jr.,  of  Gloucester,  and  Richard  Foote,  of  Stafford, 
Prince  William  county,  September  8,  1734;  and  in  another,  dated  No- 
vember, 1762,  and  recorded  in  Fauquier,  from  Richard  Foote,  of  Staf- 
ford. According  to  these  deeds  which  do  not  give  his  wife's  name), 
Richard*  Foote  had  issue:  15.  Richard,*  16.  George;'  17.  John,*  died 
without  issue  and  unmarried  (Mr.  Hord's  MS.  gives  this  John  Foote  as 
ancestor  of  Hon.  H.  S.  Foote,  but  the  deed  made  by  his  brother  Rich- 
ard in  1762,  states  that  he  died  without  issue,  and  that  Richard  was  his 
heir);  18.  Hester,*  married  John  Grant,  of  Prince  William,  gent.,  and 
was  dead  before  May  25,  1746,  leaving  a  son  William  Grant,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Ann  Grant  {Deed,  Pr.  Wm.  co.)\  19.  Elizabeth. 

15.  Richard*  Foote,  of  Stafford  county,  was  bom  (according  to  a 
deposition)  in  1704.  He  was  a  justice  of  Stafford,  1745,  &c.,  and  was 
alive  there  in  1762;  but  the  exact  date  of  his  death  is  not  known.     He 

married,  August  6,  1726,  Katherine [her  name  is  in  the  St.  Paul's 

Register,  but  is  illegible  in  the  copy  before  me],  and  had  issue,  so  far 
as  the  register  shows:  20.  Sarah,*  bom  January  29,  1732,  doubtless  the 
Sarah  Foote,  who  according  to  the  same  register)  married  November 
26,  1750,  William  Stuart;  21.  John,*  bom  November  30,  1735;  22.  Kath- 
erine,* bom  November  24,  1740;  23.  [name  wom  off]  son,  bom 

October  3,  1743. 

[to  be  continued.] 


THE  PRYOR  FAMILY. 

On  account  of  the  destmction  of  county  records,  this  account  of  the 
Pr>'ors  must  be  at  present  rather  a  collection  of  data  than  a  connected 
and  complete  account  of  the  family,  though  it  is  hoped  the  publication 
will  elicit  information  which  will  enable  it  to  be  completed. 

The  earliest  land  grant  to  one  of  the  name  is  dated  in  1689,  to  *'  Mr. 
Robert  Pr>or,"  for  309  acres  at  the  head  of  Craney  Creek,  Ware  Parish, 


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Gloucester  county;  92  acres  of  which  was  granted  to  Thomas  Jefferson 
[who  was  he?]  April  i,  1668,  and  by  him  deserted,  and  afterwards 
granted  to  Robert  Collis,  who  on  April  21,  1689,  assigned  to  Robert 
Pryor.  On  October  29,  1693,  '*  Mr.  Robert  Pryor"  had  a  grant  for  92 
acres  on  Craney  Creek,  Gloucester.  The  next  grants  were  much  later, 
one,  October  15,  174 1,  to  Philip  Pryor,  for  386  acres  in  Amelia  county, 
between  the  branches  of  Great  and  Little  Nottoway  rivers,  and  another 
to  William  Pryor,  September  5,  1762,  for  350  acres  in  Amherst  county, 
on  Pedlar  river. 

I  am  indebted  to  Judge  James  T.  Mitchell,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Pennsylvania,  for  the  following  copy  of  an  account  prepared  by  his  grand- 
father, James  Mitchell,  who  was  born  in  1785,  and  died  in  1869: 

"  Extracts  from  notes  in  the  Mitchell  family  Bible,  made  by  James 
Mitchel  from  personal  recollection  and  conversations,  correspondence, 
&c.,  with  older  members  of  the  family. 

"Grandmother's  father.  Colonel  Samuel  Pr>or's  parents  were  from 
England,  and  had  settled  in  Caroline  county,  Va.  He  married  a  Miss 
Thornton,  whose  parents  were  also  from  England,  and  settled  in  Caro- 
line, Hanover  and  Spotsylvania  counties.  They  had  ten  children,  eight 
sons,  and  two  daughters:  William,  Samuel,  John,  Thornton,  Robert, 
Luke,  Frank  and  Joseph;  the  youngest  of  the  brothers  and  least  of  them 
weighed  220  pounds.  Nancy  Pryor  married  Colonel  Samuel  Wells, 
judge  of  the  County  Court  of  Amelia  county.  Molly  Pryor  was  born 
15th  November,  1730,  and  married  Major  William  Berry,  of  Gloucester, 
Va.,  who  died,  leaving  two  daughters,  Nancy  and  Prudence. 

"  Nancy  Berry  married  Jonathan  Taylor,  son  of  Colonel  George  Tay- 
lor. 

•'Prudence  Berry  married  Major  George  Blackburn,  and  both  families 
removed  to  Kentucky  in  1797.  Molly  Pryor  Berry's  second  marriage 
was  to  James  Mitchell.  She  died  in  1804,  and  James  Mitchell,  her  hus- 
band, in  1819. 

"Their  children  were:  i.  Edward,  born  1760,  died  1837;  2.  James, 
bom  1762,  died  1781;  3.  Samuel,  born  1764,  died  1855.  Edward  Mitchell 
(1 760- 1 837)  married  Haley,  and  had  James  Mitchell,  1 785-1869,  who 
married  Ann  George  Walton,  and  had  Edward  Phillips  Mitchell,  1812- 
1880,  who  married  Elizabeth  Tyndall,  and  had  James  T.  Mitchell,  1834, 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania." 

Judge  Mitchell  states  that  he  has  no  further  account  of  the  Pr>'or  fam- 
ily. It  was  Colonel  Samuel  Pryor  who  married  Miss  Thornton,  and  had 
ten  children,  one  of  whom  it  is  stated  was  bom  in  1730.  It  is  a  proba- 
ble supposition  that  their  marriage  took  place  about  1720.  And  it  was 
highly  probable  that  "  Mr.  Robert  Pryor,"  of  the  patents,  w^as  the  father 
*of  this  Samuel  Pryor. 

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R.  A.  Pryor,  of  New  York  belongs.  I  am  indebted  to  a  member  of  the 
family: 

Samuel  Pryor,  first  of  the  name  known,  married  Prudence  Thornton, 
said  by  tradition  to  have  been  a  daughter  of  William  Thornton,  of  Glou- 
cester county.  ( An  old  Thornton  Bible  shows  that  this  William  Thorn- 
ton had  a  daughter  Prudence,  bom  March  31,  1699.) 

As  stated  above,  Nancy,  daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  Pryor,  married 
Lawrence  Wells  or  Wills,  of  Amelia  county  (son  of  Matthew  Wills  and 
Miss  Moore,-  his  wife,  who  lived  in  York  [  ?  Warwick  county]  on  Mul- 
bery  Island).  The  son  Lawrence,  who  married  Nancy  Pryor,  removed 
to  Amelia,  and  had  seven  sons  and  four  daughters.  From  the  diary  of 
Rev.  Theoderick  Pryor,  1830,  it  appears  that  John  Pryor,  son  of  Colonel 
Samuel,  went  to  the  present  Nottoway  county,  married,  and  had  issue: 
I.  Richard;  2.  Samuel;  3.  Luke;  4.  Philip;  5.  Mar>'. 

Richard  Pryor  (son  of  John)  married  Anne  Bland. 

Luke  Pryor  (son  of  John)  emigrated  to  Alabama.  In  Virginia,  he 
married  Martha  Scott,  sister  to  General  Wingfield  Scott,  and  was  the 
father  of  Luke  Pryor,  United  States  Senator  from  Alabama.  Luke 
Pryor  (son  of  fohn)  married  secondly,  Mrs.  Lane,  of  Brunswick  county, 
Va.,  and  Senator  Pryor  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  second  marriage. 

Philip  Pryor  (son  of  John)  settled  in  Brunswick  count>'  and  married 
Miss  Wilkes. 

Mary  Pryor  (daughter  of  John)  married  Alexander  Boiling,  and  died 
at  an  advanced  age. 

Richard  Pr>'or  (son  of  John),  who  married  Anne  Bland,  daughter  of 
Rev.  William  Bland  and  Elizabeth  Yates,  *'  had  nine  children  '*  (see  Dr. 
Pryor*s  diary):  William  Bland,  Mar>'  Ann,  Richard,  Samuel,  Elizabeth 
Yates,  Theodorick  Bland  (others  died  in  childhood),  Mary  Ann  married 
John  Atkinson,  son  of  Roger  Atkinson,  of  Olive  Hill.  Elizabeth  Yates 
married  Benjamin  Jones,  of  Petersburg. 

William  Bland  Pryor  married  Jane  Atkinson,  daughter  of  Roger  At- 
kinson, of  Olive  Hill,  and  moved  to  Mississippi. 

Richard  Pryor  ison-of  Richard)  married  Virginia  Boyd,  and  moved  to 
Arkansas,  where  he  died. 

Samuel  Pryor  ^son  of  Richard )  married  Mary  Ann  Hamlin,  of  Amelia 
county;  her  mother  was  Miss  Goode.  Their  son  is  Colonel  W^illiam 
Pryor,  of  Lynchburg,  married  Margaret  Walker,  descended  from  Dr. 
Thomas  Walker,  of  Castle  Hill,  Albemarle.  Their  sons  Samuel  Morris 
Pryor  married  Laura  McKim.  (Their  son  Samuel  Morris  Pryor)  Gilmer 
Pryor  is  another  son  of  William  Pryor  and  M.  Walker. 

Rev.  Theodorick  Bland  Pryor,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  married  first  to 
Lucy  Atkinson,  daughter  of  Roger  Atkinson,  of  Olive  Hill.  They  had 
one  son  and  one  daughter.  Roger  and  Lucy.  Lucy  married  Robert  Mc- 
Ilwaine,  of  Petersburg,  Va. 

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in  Confederate  army,  judge  of  Supreme  Court  of  New  York,  married 
Sarah  Agnes  Rice,  great-granddaughter  of  Rev.  David  Rice,  one  of  the 
founders  of  Uampden-Sidney  College.  Their  children,  Marie  Gordon 
Pryor  married  Henr>'  Rice,  of  Charlotte;  Theodorick  Bland  Pryor,  first 
honor  man  of  Princeton  University,  and  scholar  of  Cambridge  Univer- 
sit>%  England,  died  young.  He  was  prepared  for  college  by  Gordon 
McCabe,  of  Richmond.  His  short  career  was  one  of  unprecedented 
brilliancy. 

Roger  Atkinson  Pryor,  now  a  lawyer  in  New  York  city. 

Mary  Blair  Pryor,  married  Francis  Thomas  Walker. 

William  Rice  Pr>or,  physician  and  surgeon  in  New  York  city,  married 
Louise  Allan,  of  Richmond,  son  Hoffman  Allan  Pr>'or. 

Lucy  Atkinson  Pryor,  married  Arthur  Page  Brown. 

Francis  Bland  Pryor,  married  William  de  Leftwich  Dodge,  resides  in 
Paris. 

Rev.  Theodorick  Pryor  married,  secondly,  Frances  Epes,  by  whom 
Frances,  married  Thomas  Campbell,  Nanny,  married  George  Jones. 
Archibald  Campbell  Pryor  married  Ann  Augusta  Bannister,  of  Peters- 
burg.   They  have  sons  and  daughters,  live  at  Centre  Hill,  Petersburg. 

It  is  believed  that  John  Pr>or  married  Ann,  a  daughter  of  Richard 
Bland,  of  Jordans.  It  seems  to  have  been  almost  the  universal  custom 
to  name  the  first  two  sons,  respectively,  after  the  father's  and  mother's 
fathers.    John  Pryor's  first  two  sons  were  named  Samuel  and  Richard. 

The  descendants  of  John  Pryor  have  been  under  the  impression  he 
was  twice  married. 

A  list  of  the  children  (and  their  marriages'  of  Richard  Bland  contains 
this  entry:  "3d.  Ann  Bland — b.  15  Aug.,  1735,  married  Pr>'or." 

The  following  abstracts  are  from  the  records  of  Amelia  county: 

(i)  Will  of  Samuel  Pr>'or,  of  Amelia,  dated  February  20,  and  proved 
May  27,  1790;  legatees:  brothers  Richard  and  Philip  Pr>'or.  [Luke 
Pr>or,  also  a  legatee,  is  not  described  as  brother,  but  he  undoubtedly 
was,  as  these  were  sons  of  John  Pryor,  as  in  the  account  just  given.] 

(2)  Deed,  1761,  from  Thornton  Pr>or,  of  Amelia.  [The  son  of  Col- 
onel Samuel  Pr>'or,  as  given  in  the  Mitchell  account.] 

(3)  Deed,  March  16,  1763,  from  Thoniton  Pr>-or,  of  Halifax  county, 
X.  C,  to  Samuel  Pr>'or,  of  Goochland  county,  Va.,  conveying  that  por- 
tion i^(  the  estate  of  their  father  Samuel  Pr>'or,  deceased,  which  he  be- 
r|iie,uhed  to  the  said  Thornton  Pr>'or,  and  which  at  the  time  of  making 
live  deed,  was  in  possession  of  their  mother.  Prudence  Pr>or.  [This 
dtffd  also  confirms  the  statements  made  above.] 

(4*  Deed,  May  18,  1742,  from  Philip  Pr>or,  of  Hanover  county,  and 
Ann  his  wife,  conveying  land  in  Amelia.  [His  name  does  not  appear 
in  iht?  pedigrees  given  above.  Probably  a  brother  of  Colonel  Samuel 
Pr>m,] 

( 5 1  Will  of  John  Pr>or,  dated  September  23d  and  proved  October  27. 


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1785.  Legatees:  sons  Richard,  Luke  and  Samuel;  daughter  Elizabeth 
Timberlake,  daughter  Mary  Boiling;  son-in-law  John  Timberlake;  men- 
tions legacy  left  by  deceased  brother  Luke  Pr>'or.  [This  was  the  John 
Pryor,  son  of  Colonel  Samuel  Pr>'or.] 

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THE  PAYNE  FAMILY  OF  GOOCHLAND,  &c. 

(CONTINUED.) 


Colonel  John'  Payne,  of  Goochland  (son  of  George*  Payne)  who  died 
July  28,  1784,  was  evidently  twice  married.  By  the  first  wife,  whose 
name  is  not  known  to  me,  he  had  issue:  i.  John;*  2.  Archer;'  3.  Rob- 
ert,* died  in  1770  unmarried.  Colonel  Payne  married,  secondly,  on  June 
23*  1757.  Jane,  widow  of  John  Chichester,  of  Lancaster  county,  and 
daughter  of  Philip  Smith,  of  Northumberland  county  ( Philip  Smith  was 
son  of  John  Smith,  of  **  Purton,"  Gloucester  county,  and  his  wife  Mary, 
daughter  of  Augustine  VVamer,  of  **  Warner  Hall.'*)  The  wife  of  Philip 
Smith  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Baldwin  Matthews,  (see  William  <5f  Mary 
QuarUrfy,  vol.  iv)  and  had  issue:  4.  Ann,*  bom  October  7,  1758,  mar- 
ried June  30,  1774.  Col.  James  Gordon,  of  Lancaster  county*;  5.  Philip,' 
bom  May  29,  176^,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  West 
Dandridge;  6.  Jean,*  bom  April  30,  1762,  married  September  28,  1780, 
William  Lee,  of  Northumberland  county;  7.  Smith,*  bom  June  18,  1764; 
8.  George  Woodson,*  bom  Oct.  9,  1767,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  West  Dandridge;  9.  Mildred  Matthews,*  bom  April  10,  1769, 
and  died  soon  after  her  father;  10.  Robert,*  bom  October  3,  1770;  11. 
Elizabeth  Woodson,*  born  January  8t  1773,  and  died  before  her  father. 

John*  Payne  (son  of  Colonel  John)  married,  January  16,  1762,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Richard  Chichester,  of  Lanca.ster  county,  and  had  issue  by 
this  marriage:  i.  John  Chichester,*  bom  Febmary  5,  1767;  2.  Ann  Ball, • 
bom  Febmary  16,  1769;  3.  Mar>'  Chichester,*  bom  1770,  not  named  in 
father*s  will;  4.  Molly,*  bom  April  3,  1774,  not  named  in  father's  will. 
John*  Payne  married,  secondly,  Margaret  Jones  She  may  have  been  a 
widow,  as  John  Payne,  in  his  will  proved  in  Goochland,  in  1795,  names 
his  "wife's  daughter,"  Mary  Pollock,  and  his  **  wife's  son"  Roderick. 
But  the  parish  register  gives  the  birth  October  23,  1788,  of  Roderick,  son 
of  John  Payne  and  Margaret  Jones,  his  wife,  so  in  speaking  of  these  two 
as  his  wife's  children  he  may  have  intended  to  distinguish  them  from  his 
first  wife's  children. 

Archer*  Payne,  of  "Newmarket,"  Goochland  county,  married,  about 
1769,  Martha,  daughter  of  Nat.  West  Dandridge;  and  had  issue  <as 
shown  by  the  parish  register):  1.  John  Dandridge,*  bom  November  20, 
1770;  2.  Ann  Spotswood,*  bom  April    19,  1772;  3.  Martha,*  bom  Nov. 


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S.  1773;  4-  Archer,*  born  November  29,  1775;  5.  Dorothea  Dandridge,* 
bom  July  10,  1777;  6.  America,*  bom  Novembers,  1786. 

Josias*  Payne  (son  of  George*  Payne)  b.  October  30,  1705,  and  died  in 
Pittsylvania  county,  (to  which  he  had  removed)  in  1785.  He  married, 
prior  to  1732,  Anne  or  Anna,  who  is  said  in  all  the  accounts  of  the  family 
to  have  been  Anna  Fleming.  This  is  probably  correct;  but  the  writer 
has  seen  no  documentary  proof  of  the  fact.  There  may  be  among  the 
records  of  Goochland  something  that  gives  the  desired  proof. 

The  will  of  Josias  •  Payne  was  recorded  in  Pittsylvania  county,  and 
the  folio wmg  is  a  copy: 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen,  I  Josias  Payne,  of  Pittsylvania  County  be- 
ing at  this  time  in  perfect  health,  mind  and  memory  do  make  and  ordain 
this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  manner  and  form  following:  first,  1 
recommend  my  soul  to  God  hoping  for  a  happy  resurrection  and  my 
body  to  the  earth  to  be  buried  in  a  christian  like  manner  at  the  discretion 
of  my  Executor  hereafter  mentioned,  and  after  all  my  just  debts  and 
funeral  charges  are  paid,  I  give  and  dispose  of  my  Estate  in  the  following 
manner,  viz: 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  William  the  Negroes  he  has  now  in 
possession,  I  likewise  give  to  my  son  William  the  tract  of  land  whereon 
he  now  lives  in  Fluvana  County  containing  Four  hundred  acres,  u-ith  the 
following  Negroes,  Long  Tom,  Squire  and  Patt. 

Item.  I  confirm  the  gift  formerly  made  my  son  Josias  of  Seven  hun- 
dred acres  land  in  Goochland  County  on  the  waters  of  Beaver  dam  Creek 
with  the  following  Negroes,  London,  Ned  and  Nice. 

Item.  I  confirm  the  gift  formerly  made  to  my  son  George  of  Two 
hundred  acres  land  on  Licking  hole  Creek  as  also  Two  hundred  acres  on 
the  three  chopt  road  with  the  following  Negroes,  Will,  Bose  and  Jude 
and  the  fifty  pounds  I  gave  him  in  cash  in  lieu  of  a  Negro.  I  confirm 
the  gift  made  to  my  son  John  of  Two  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  little 
Bird  Creek  as  also  Four  hundred  acres  in  the  fork  of  James  River  with 
the  following  Negroes,  Peter,  Ned  and  Bob.  I  also  confirm  the  gift  made 
to  William  Heale  who  married  my  daughter  Susanna,  of  Three  hundred 
and  sixty-five  acres  of  land  on  the  waters  of  the  little  Bird  Creek  with 
the  following  Negroes,  Phillis  and  her  children  and  a  Negro  girl  named 
Tiller. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Robert  Payne  all  that  tract  of 
land  in  Goochland  County  on  licking  hole  creek  containing  Eight  hun- 
dred acres,  being  the  plantation  and  land  whereon  I  formerly  lived.  1 
likewise  confirm  the  gift  of  Negroes  I  formerly  made  him  which  he  has 
now  in  possession  with  the  following  Negroes,  Joe,  Nan,  Lucy  and 
James,  with  their  future  increase  together  with  my  Still,  my  household 
and  kitchen  fumiture  and  all  the  plantation  utensils^  to  him  and  his  heirs 
forever. 

Item.     I  give  to  my  daughter  Agnes  Michel  the  Negroes  she  rec'd 


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of  me  after  her  Marriage,  with  the  following  negroes,  Jane,  Mole  and 
her  child  Hanah,  with  their  future  increase. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  daughter  Anna  Harrison  the  Negroes  she  has 
now  in  possession  with  the  Negroes  following,  Tom,  Hanah  his  wife  and 
Ben  their  son  with  their  future  increase. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  grand  daughter  Anne,  the  daughter 
of  my  son  Robert,  one  Negro  girl  named  Milley  with  her  future  increase 
to  her  and  her  heirs  forever. 

Item.  1  give  to  my  Grandaughter  Keturah,  daughter  of  my  son  Rob- 
ert, one  negro  girl  named  Betty,  with  her  increase  to  her  and  her  heirs 
for  ever  and  all  the  rest  of  my  estate  not  heretofore  given  consisting  of 
stock,  &c  ,  I  desire  may  be  sold  and  after  my  debts  and  funeral 
charges  are  paid  the  money  equally  divided  amongst  all  my  children.  I 
do  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  my  two  sons  William  and  Robert 
Payne  and  my  son-in-law  William  Harrison,  Executors  of  this  my  last 
will  and  testament  revoking  and  disannulling  all  and  every  will  or  wills 
by  me  heretofore  made.  In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my 
hand  and  seal  this  12th  day  of  January-,  1785. 

JosiAS  Payne,  L.  S. 

Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  published  declared  to  be  his  last 

will  in  presence  of  James  Sanders,  Chas.  Dixon,  Sa.  Hopson. 

At  a  Court  held  for  Pittsylvania  County  the  19th  day  of  Decem.  1785. 
The  within  last  will  and  testament  of  J osias  Payne,  deceased,  was  proved 
by  the  oath  of  one  of  the  witnesses  thereto,  &c.  [Rest  of  Probate  Cer- 
tificate omitted.] 

Teste:  Will  Tinstall,  C.  C. 

A  Copy  Teste:     W.  B.  Shepherd,  Clerk. 
December  9.  1897. 

Josias' and  Anna  Payne  had  issue:  i.  William;*  2.  Josias;'  3.  George;* 
4.  John;*  5.  Susanna*  married,  June  26,  1771,  William  Heale,  of  Lancas- 
ter county;  6.  Robert;*  7.  Agnes*  married,  in  1749,  William  Michel;  8. 
Anna*  married,  November,  1763,  William  Harrison.  (These  are  all  the 
children  named  in  the  will. ) 

William*  Payne  son  of  Josias*),  married,  March  6,  1753,  Mary  Barret, 
of  Goochland,  and  had  issue  (named  in  the  register):  i.  Sally,*  bom 
Dec.  9,  1760.  In  the  register  is  also  recorded  the  birth  January  24,  1768, 
of  Susannah,  daughter  of  William  Payne,  and  Mary  Thompson  his  wife, 
so  William  •  Payne  had  doubtless  married  again.  He  may  have  had 
other  children. 

Josias*  Payne,  Jr.  (son  of  Josias*)  was  long  a  resident  of  Goochland 
county,  but  in  1784,  removed  to  that  portion  of  North  Carolina,  which  is 
now  Tennessee.  He  married  first,  August  23, 1753.  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Tarleton  Fleming,  and  secondly,  August  19,   1789,  at  Nash's  Lick 


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(now  Nashville,  Teim. )  Mary  Barnett,  {Davidson  County  Records^,  By 
the  first  marriage  he  had  issue:  i.  Tarleton,*  born  Feb.  21,  1758;  2. 
Sally,*  bom  September  16,  1757;  3.  Josias,*  born  April  25,  1761;  4.  Wil- 
liam,* bom  June  1st  1764;  5.  Fleming,*  bom  June  26,  1766;  6.  Charles 
Fleming,*  bom  January  8,  1768;  7  Elizabeth  Chichester.*  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  1769.  By  his  second  marriage,  with  Mary  Barnett,  Josias  Payne 
had  a  daughter  Anne  *  Payne  who  married,  January  22,  1803,  Gideon 
Pillow,  Sr.,  and  was  the  mother  of  General  Gideon  J.  Pillow,  U.  S.  A. 

(TO    BE   CONTINUED.) 


THE  RODES  FAMILY. 
[continued.] 

While  positive  proof  has  not  yet  been  found  that  John  Rodes,  who 
was  born  in  Virginia  in  1697,  was  son  of  Charles  Rodes.  who  was  living 
in  Virginia,  and  lately  married  in  1695,  yet  the  presumptive  evidence  is 
strong.  The  tradition  in  every  branch  of  the  family  has  been  that  this 
John  Rodes  was  the  son  of  the  immigrant;  the  name  Clifton  has  so  fre- 
quently appeared  both  in  the  English  family  to  which  Charles  Rodes 
belonged,  and  in  the  Virginia  family  descended  from  John;  and  the  fact 
that  John  Rodes  was  born  in  1697,  in  or  near  what  was  then  New  Kent 
county,  makes  it  hardly  doubtful  that  he  was  the  son  of  the  "Charles 
Roades,"  whose  daughter  Mary's  baptism,  Febmary  7,  1702-3,  is  re- 
corded in  the  register  of  St.  Peter's  Parish,  New  Kent  county.  The 
birth  of  a  son  (  John)  in  1697,  and  of  a  daughter  (Mary)  in  1703,  would 
accord  very  well  with  a  marriage  in  1695.  A  Clifton  Rodes  was  living 
in  Virginia  during  the  first  half  of  the  i8th  century,  who  may  have  been 
another  son  of  Charles  Rodes.  There  is  on  record  in  York  county,  a 
deed  dated  December  20,  1740,  conveying  land  in  York  county  to  Clif- 
ton Rodes,  of  Jamas  City  county.  [The  James  City  records  are  unfort- 
unately, destroyed.]  The  will  of  Clifton  Rhodes,  of  York  county  (of 
course  the  same  as  of  James  CityU  was  proved  in  York  county,  July  15, 
1745.  His  legatees  were  his  wife  Sarah,  his  son  Francis,  and  other  chil- 
dren whom  he  does  not  name.  If  all  of  his  children  died  during  their 
minority,  the  property  was  to  go  to  John  and  Elizabeth,  children  of 
Francis  Rhodes,  and  to  Clifton  Rhodes  and  his  brother,  the  children  of 
John  Rhodes,  of  Hanover  county. 

It  is  highly  probable  that  there  are  in  England  wills  which  will  clear 
up  the  connection  of  the  families.  There  may  also  be  something  in 
Maryland,  where  Francis  Rodes  is  stated  to  have  lived,  which  would 
throw  light. 

I.  John  '  Rooks,  was  born  in  the  lower  end  of  the  present  Hanover 
county  (traditional  as  to  birthplace),  November  6,  1697  {Family  Bible  , 
and  died  May  3,  1775.     He  removed  to  Louisa  county,  and  in  Septem- 


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ber,  1765,  was  appointed  a  vestryman  of  Fredericksville  Parish.  In 
October  of  the  next  year,  John  Rodes  and  Mary  his  wife,  of  Louisa 
couny,  made  a  deed  to  their  son  Clifton  Rodes,  of  Louisa,  conveying 
land  they  had  bought  in  1727.  He  was  also  a  justice  of  Albemarle 
county.  The  will  of  John  Rodes  was  dated  Februar>'  12,  1774,  and 
proved  in  Albemarle,  October,  1775.  He  gave  his  son  Charles  382  acres 
taken  from  the  north  end  of  testator's  land;  to  his  (John's)  wife  Mary, 
his  real  and  personal  estate  during  her  life  if  she  did  not  marry,  and  if 
she  did,  then  to  *'be  put  to  her  thirds."  After  her  death  or  marriage, 
the  land  he  lived  on  was  to  be  sold  and  the  proceeds  divided  between 
his  five  daughters.  All  the  rest  of  his  estate  after  his  wife's  death  to  be 
equally  divided  between  his  four  sons  and  five  daughters;  the  slaves  to 
be  divided  as  the  children  should  agree,  but  none  to  be  sold  out  of  the 
family.  Appoints  his  sons  Charles  and  John  executors.  The  inventory 
of  his  personal  estate  amounted  to  ;f  1,044.  i7-  3»  a  large  property  for 
the  time  and  county. 

John*  and  Mary  Rodes  had  issue:  i.  Clifton,'^  2.  Charles,^  3. y<?A«,« 
4.  Daind} 

2.  Clifton*  Rodes  was  a  private  in  the  Louisa  county  militia  in  1758 

{Henin^y   ),  and  was  sheriff  of  Albemarle,   1783-85  (A/demar/e 

Records).  He  removed  to  Fayette  county,  Ky.  His  wife  was  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  and  Agnes  (Carr)  Waller,  of  Spotsylvania  county,  Va. 
[Hayden's  Virginia  Genealogies,  388-393),  and  had  issue: 

6.  Agnes,'  married Boone;  7.  Henrietta,*  married  Joseph  Rog- 
ers; 8.  Daughter,*  married  James  Rogers;  9.  Debora,*  married  in  1784, 
David  Kerr  (marriage  bond  in  Albemarle  county,  November  25th);  10. 
John,*  married  Jane  Burch.  Did  he  leave  descendants?  11.  Mary,* 
married  in  1786,  Joseph  Birch  (marriage  bond  in  Albemarle  county,  No- 
vember, 26);  12.  Waller} 

3.  Charles*  Rodes,  settled  in  Nelson  county,  Va.  We  have  but 
meagre  accounts  of  his  descendants,  but  from  statements  by  descend- 
ants, he  married  "Amy,  sister  of  General  Robert  Duke,"  and  had  issue; 
I.  Charles,*  of  Nelson  county,  who  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Colonel 
John  Hopkins,  and  neice  of  General  Samuel  Hopkins,  of  Kentucky; 
and  had  a  son,  James  Hopkins  *  Rodes,  who  was  the  father  of  Charles 
E.  Rodes,  of  Gallatin,  Tennessee,  and  other  sons  and  daughters.  J.  T. 
Rodes,  of  Fayette ville,  Tennessee,  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Rodes,  of  Manchester, 
Tennessee,  are  also  descendants  of  this  branch.  James  E.  Rodes,  of 
Fayetteville,  Tennessee,  is  son  of  Iverson  Twyman  Rodes,  who  was  a 
son  of  Thomas  Rodes,  who  removed  from  Nelson  county,  Va  ,  to  Ten- 
nessee, in  1837.  It  is  hoF>ed  that  some  one  will  furnish  us  with  a  full 
and  correct  account  of  the  descendants  of  Charles  *  Rodes. 

4.  John*  Rodes,  of  Albemarle  county,  was  bom  November  6,  1729, 
and  died  July  15,  1810  {Family  Bible).  He  was  a  justice  of  Albemarle 
county.     His  will  was  dated  July  6,  1804,  and  proved  August  6,  1810,  in 


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Albemarle.  Legacies;  first,  to  his  son  Robert,  three  negroes;  second, 
to  his  daughter,  Henrietta,  three  negroes;  third,  to  daughter  Ann,  three 
negroes;  fourth,  to  son  John,  three  negroes:  fifth,  to  son  Clifton,  three 
negroes,  and  a  tract  of  land  on  which  he  (Clifton)  now  lives;  sixth,  to 
son  Tyree.  three  negroes;  to  daughter  Sally  Harris,  three  negroes.  All 
of  the  land  on  which  he  resided,  and  all  adjoining  the  same  which  he 
had  purchased,  to  be  sold,  and  proceeds  divided— one  third  to  his 
daughter  Henrietta,  one  third  to  Sally  Harris,  and  one  third  to  be  put 
at  interest  to  be  divided  equally  among  the  children  of  his  daughter  Anna. 

The  rest  of  his  estate  to  be  divided  among  all  of  his  children,  viz : 
Robert,  Henrietta,  John,  Clifton,  Tyree,  Sally  Harris  and  Anna.  Ann 
Garth's  share  to  be  put  at  interest  and  divided  among  her  children  when 
they  come  of  age  or  marry.  John  and  Clifton  Rodes,  and  B.  Brown, 
executors.  John*  Rodes  married  Sarah  (bom  May  24,  1736,  died  Jan. 
31,  1803)  daughter  of  Major  Robert  Harris,  of  Albemarle  county  (who 
had  been  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Hanover  in  1743-44). 
They  had  issue: 

15.  Mary,' born  February  14,  1757;  died  young;  16.  Robert;^  17.  Hen- 
rietta,' bom  May  26,  1761,  married  Bemice  Brown  of  Albemarle;  18. 
Ann,*  bom  July  22,  1763:  married,  June  17,  1782,  John  Garth,  of  Albe- 
marle, and  removed  to  Paris,  Kentucky;  19.  John;^  20.  Clifton;^  21. 
Tyree;*  22.  Doctor  Charles,' born  Febmary  22,  1774,  died  unmarried; 
23.  Sarah  Harris,' born  July  3,  1777,  married  September  22,  1808,  Mica- 
jah  Woods,  of  "Holkham,"  Albemarle  county,  and  died  January  25, 
1850,  leaving  a  son  Dr.  John  R.  Woods,  of  Albemarle  (bom  January  15, 
1 815,  died  July  9,  1885)  father  of  Captain  Micajah  Woods,  of  Charlottes- 
ville, &c. 

5.  David*  Rodes,  of  Albemarle  county,  bom  ,  died  Dec.  29, 

1793.     He  married  first.  May  13,  1758,  Mary  (who  died  April  10. 

1 781)  and  second,  on  March  27, 1 783,  Susannah .  (By  the  second  mar- 
riage there  was  one  child  Agnes,  born  January  11,  1784,  died  September 
13,  1784.)  The  will  of  David '  Rodes  was  dated  June  9,  1790,  and  proved 
in  Albemarle,  Febmary,  1794.  He  wills  the  lands  and  negroes  derived 
through  his  wife  Susannah  to  her;  farm  called  "  Pomgranate  "  to  son 
John;  304  acres  to  son  Matthew,  besides  500  acres  in  Madison  county, 
Ky.;  to  son  Charles,  tracts  in  Nelson  county,  Ky.,  on  the  waters  of 
Green  River,  in  all  1,195  acres;  £60  to  daughter  Mary  Douglas;  all  his 
children  to  have  equal  shares  with  daughter  Elizabeth  Goodman,  lands 
excepted;  wife  Susannah  and  son  Mathew  executors.     Issue: 

24.  Mary,' born  Dec.  11,  1760,  married Douglas;  25.  Bettie,'  bom 

June  20,  1762,  died  December  27,  1852,  married,  1783,  Horsley  Goodman 
(marriage  bond  Albemarle  county.  May  8);  26.  John,'  bom  Febmary  14, 
1764,  died  August  19,  1823.  Did  he  marry  and  have  issue  ?  27.  Matthew;* 
28.  Charles,'  born  September  15,  1767;  29.  Nancy,'  bom  June  16, 
1769,  married  Delaney;  28.  Lucy,'  born  May  4,  1771;  29.  David,' 


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born  March  9,  1773,  died  August  24,  1789;  30.  Ann,*  bom  February  20, 
'775.  died  September  25,  1852,  married  May,  1790,  in  Albemarle  county, 
James  Ballard;  3r.  Judah,*  bom  December  15  1776,  died  Aug:ust,  1784; 
32.  Patsy,' bom  October  23,  1778;  33.  Milly,*born  September  25,  1780 
(a  Milly  Rodes,  doubtless  this  one,  married  in  Albemarle  in  July,  1795, 
William  Walden.) 

12.  Waller*  Rodes,  of  Kentucky,  married  his  cousin  Elizabeth 
Thompson  (she  married  secondly  Gabrielt  Slaughter,  Govemor  of  Ken- 
tucky) and  had  one  child.  Colonel  William  *  Rodes,  of  Fayette  county, 
Ky.,  member  of  the  State  Senate  1841-45,  who  married  twice,  first,  his  * 
cousin  Sarah  Waller  Burch,  by  whom  he  had  one  son  Joseph  Waller  * 
Rodes,  who  married  Sarah  E.  Marshall,  and  left  two  sons:  J.  Waller* 
Rodes,  and  Dr.  William  •  Rodes,  both  of  Lexington,  Ky.  Colonel  Wil- 
liam *  Rodes  married  secondly,  Margaret  Todd,  and  had  one  son  Levi 
Todd,*  who  married  Mary  Martin. 

16.  Robert*  Rodes,  born  May  11,  1759,  d^^d  November  20,  1818;  is 
said  to  have  served  as  a  captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War;  removed  to 
Madison  county.  Ky.,  in  1783,  and  represented  that  county  in  the  Con- 
vention held  at  Danville  in  1787.  On  the  formation  of  the  State  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  justices  of  Madison  county,  and  later  was  a  judge 
of  the  Circuit  Court.  He  married,  May  30,  1782,  Elizabeth  (bom  Jan- 
uary 29,  1759,  <^*€d  January  31,  I8o3^  daughter  of  John  Delaney,  of  Am- 
herst county,  V^a.,  and  had  issue: 

34.  Mar>'  Eddins,*  bom  August  5,  1783,  died  July  20,  1835,  married 
July  10,  1800,  James  Estill;  35.  Sarah  Harris,*  born  June  7,  1787,  died 
August  II,  1856.  married  April  18,  i8fi.  Dr.  Anthony  W.  Rollins,  of 
Kentucky,  and  had  a  son,  James  Sydney  Rollins,  born  at  Richmond, 
Ky.,  April  19,  1812;  member  of  Legislature  from  Boone  county.  Mo., 
1838,  and  State  Senate,  1868,  &c.;  Member  Congress,  1860-64,  Presi- 
dent of  the  University  of  Missiouri;  36.  Elizabeth,*  born  February  20, 
1789,  died  Febmar>',  1857,  married  December  20,  1807,  Wallace  Estill; 
37.  John,*  bom  January  4,  1792,  died  November  21,  1814;  38.  IVWiam;^ 
39.  Nancy,*  born  F'ebruary  3,  1796,  died  September  15,  1869,  married 
October  15,  18 16,  Samuel  Stone,  of  Richmond,  Ky.,  and  was  mother  ot 
Robert  Rodes  Stone,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  grandmother  of  Samuel 
H.  Stone,  now  State  Auditor  of  Kentucky;  40.  Clifton} 

19.  John*  Rodes.  of  Albemarle  county,  Va.,  born  June  2,  1766,  died 
March  i,  1841  (in  which  year  his  will  was  proved).  He  married  in  May, 
1793,  in  Albemarle,  Francisca,  daughter  of  Bernard  Brown,  and  had 
issue:  41.  Sidney,*  bom  Januar>'  27,  1794,  died  July  23,  1855,  married 
December  13,  181 1,  Powhatan  Jones  (bom  October  9,  1792,  died  Sep- 
tember 13,  1880),  of  "  Breman,"  Buckingham  county,  Va.;  42.  Ryland;^ 
43.  John  D.,*  married  Mrs.  Morris,  of  Albemarle,  and  died  without 
issue;  44.  WUiam;^  45.  Sarah,*  married  Samuel  Woods,  of  Nelson 
county,  emigrated  to  Missouri;  46.  Tyree;^  i^"].  Virginia,*  married  W.  C. 


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Smith,  of  Nelson  county,  and  died  in  1854  or  55;  48.  Jacintha,*  married, 
first,  j.  Smith,  of  Nelson  county,  and  second,  James  Harris,  of  Nelson 
county;  49.  F*annie,*  married  Garland  Brown,  of  Nelson  county,  and 
emigrated  to  Mississippi,  where  she  died;  50.  Lucy  Ann,*  married,  first, 

James  A.  Payne,  of  Warrenton,  Va.,  and  second, Newlands,  of 

Rolls  county,  Mo. 

20.  Clifton'  Rodes,  bom  August  8,  1768,  married  December  i,  1796, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Jones,  of  Albemarle  county,  and  removed 
to  Kentucky,  settling  according  to  one  account  in  Barren,  and  according 
to  another,  in  Madison  county.  He  had  two  children,  Mar>',*  who  mar- 
ried Colonel  Murrell,  member  of  Kentucky  State  Senate,  and  Elizabeth,* 
who  married,  first,  Frank  Gavin,  and  second,  Watkins. 

21.  TvREE*  Rodes,  bom  December  24,  1770.  died  July  17,  1827.  He 
removed  in  1807  to  Giles  county,  Tennessee,  and  settled  on  an  estate, 
which  he  named  "Clifton  Place."  He  married,  April  25,  181 1,  of  Hal- 
ifax county,  N.  C,  eldest  daughter  of  Major  James  Holland,  of  Halifax 
county,  N.  C,  who  was  for  eighteen  years  Member  of  Congress  from 
that  State.  They  had  issue:  sr.  Sarah  Myra,*  born  October  18,  1812, 
died  March  12,  1865,  married,  first,  John  H.  Rivers,  of  Tennessee;  sec- 
ond. Colonel  Joseph  Trotter;  52.  James  Holland,*  born  June  i,  1814, 
died  April  19,  1824;  53.  Robert;^  54.  Sophia  Selina,*  born  October  26,  818, 
died  October  24,  1829;  55.  Tyree,*  born  July  18,  1821,  died  July  28,  1858, 
married  Jane  Elizabeth  Murrill,  of  Kentucky,  and  had:  (i )  Clifton,^  born 
September  3,  1852,  died  June  13,  1877,  unmarried;  (2)  Myra  Ophelia,* 
bom  November  7,  1856,  died  March  7,  1858. 

Powhatan  and  Sidney  F.*  (Rodes)  Jones  had  issue:  (a)  Addison,  mar- 
ried and  removed  to  Texas;  (b^  Adaline  Sidney,  bom  February  19, 
1816,  died  September  11,  1888,  married  Colonel  Joseph  Littlebur>' Car- 
rington  (born  October  25,  1810,  died  January  24,  1890),  of  "Walnut 
Hill,"  Cumberland  county,  and  afterwards  of  Richmond,  Va.;  (c)  Judith 
Francisco,  married Ayres;  (d)  John  Samuel,  removed  to  Missis- 
sippi and  married;  (e)  Martha  Brown,  unmarried;  (f)  Sarah  Elizabeth, 
married  Gilbert  Carrington,  and  removed  to  Mississippi,  where  she  died; 
(g)  Powhatan  Tyree,  died  in  California;  (h)  Virginia,  married,  first.  Col- 
onel Scott,  of  Petersburg,  and  second,  Wilson,  of  Cumberland 

county;  ti)  Josiah  Ryland,  married  and  lived  in  Kockingham  county;  (j) 

Walter  Scott,  died  in  boyhood;  ^h)  Marj^  Jacintha,  married Clarke, 

of  Goochland  county 

John  H.  and  Sarah  Myra  (Rodes)  Rivers  had  issue:  (a)  William,  born 
June  19,  1831,  married  in  1857,  Martha  Julia,  daughter  of  William  C. 
Floumoy,  of  Pulaski,  Tenn.,  and  died  in  1882,  leaving  issue:  Floumoy, 
of  Pulaski;  Tyree  Rodes,  lieutenant  U.  S.  A.;  John  H.  (deceased),  Wil- 
liam Cannon,  lieutenant  U.  .S.  A.;  Myra,  and  Julian;  (b)  Cynthia,  married 


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April  6,  1851,  B.  F.  Carter;  (c)  Mary  Elizabeth,  married,  first,  Creorge 
Sykes;  secondly.  Dr.  William  Batte. 
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thp:  withers  family. 

(continued.) 

In  the  two  preceding  numbers  we  have  presented  the  only  accounts 
which  exist,  giving  connected  accounts  of  several  generations  of  the 
family,  viz:  The  entries  in  the  Bible  and  the  account  printed  in  April. 
These,  it  would  appear,  relate  to  the  descendants  of  James  Withers,  who 
is  stated  to  have  come  to  Virginia  in  1690.  What  follows  will  have  to 
be  compiled  from  wills,  deeds  and  other  records,  and  from  information 
furnished  by  various  persons  of  the  name. 

Two  papers  purporting  to  be  copies  of  the  Bible  record  have  been  ex- 
amined. One  gave  what  was  printed  on  pages  311-313.  The  other 
contained  a  blank  where  the  name  *'  Koons  Withers  "  appears  in  the  copy 
which  was  printed.  There  is  good  reason  to  believe  that  the  Bible  en- 
tries are  difficult  to  read,  and  that  the  name  rendered  "  Koons."  is 
"Keene."  This  Koons  Withers,  bom  1727-8,  should  probably  be 
Keene  la  name  pronounced  and  often  written  Cain)  Withers.  It  appears 
from  the  Stafford  records  that  the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  '*  Mr.  Cain 
Withers,  deceased  "  was  recorded  November,  1756,  and  that  his  wife  was 
named  Elizabeth.  There  appears  to  have  been  no  will.  There  is  also 
on  record  in  Staflford  the  application  of  Elizabeth,  widow  of  "  Keen 
Withers,'*  but  then  wife  of  Andrew  Edwards,  for  the  division  of  the  real 
estate  of  William  Withers. 

Keen  (Cain)  Withers  married  Elizabeth  Cave,  and  is  shown  by  the 
records  to  have  had  the  following  children  (perhaps  there  may  have  been 
others):  i.  John;  2.  James;  3.  William.  There  is  on  record  in  Fauquier 
a  deed,  July  25,  1796,  from  John  Withers  (son  of  Cain  VV^ithers)  and  Eliz- 
abeth his  wife,  to  his  brother  James  Withers  And  also  another  deed, 
February  4,  1813,  from  James  Withers  of  Fauquier  to  his  son  Jennings 
Withers,  of  Stafford  county,  conveying  land  in  Stafford,  which  was  form- 
erly given  to  Cave  Withers,  brother  of  said  Jennings,  and  which  said 
James  Withers,  the  father,  inherited  from  his  mother  Elizabeth  Cave, 
who  married  Keen  Withers.  He  also  mentions  in  the  deed,  land  which 
had  been  sold  for  the  benefit  of  his  (James)  son  John.  James  Withers, 
who  made  the  deed,  married  in  Fauquier  in  1775,  Chloe  Jennings  (mar- 
riage bond  dated  November  4,  1775)  An  account  of  the  descendants 
of  James  and  Chloe  (Jennings)  Withers  has  been  promised. 

It  appears  from  the  Bible  record  that  John,  son  of  James  Withers  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  died  October  25,  1794  (aged  eighty  years).     There  is 


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recorded  in  Fauquier  in  1794  an  order  for  the  division  of  certain  lands 
whereof  John  Withers,  Sr.,  late  of  Stafford  county,  deceased  there  seized. 
The  said  John  Withers  had  made  a  will  by  which  part  of  said  land  was 
devised  to  William  Withers.  The  other  legatees  were  to  draw  for  their 
shares.  There  seems  to  be  no  doubt  that  the  John  Withers  whose  estate 
is  here  divided,  was  the  John  Withers  of  the  Bible,  just  referred  to. 
There  is  in  Fauquier  a  deed  dated  October  2,  1804,  from  Enoch  K. 
Withers  and  Janet  his  wife,  conveying  to  John  Blackwell,  Sr.,  land  in 
Fauquier  which  was  part  of  a  larger  tract  formerly  belonging  to  John 
Withers,  deceased,  of  Stafford  county,  who  had  devised  it  to  his  children, 
viz:  150  acres  to  his  son  William,  for  life,  with  remainder  to  his  grandson 
John;  and  the  residue  to  his  three  daughters,  named  in  his  will,  one  of 
whom,  Nancy,  had  married  Nathaniel  Smith,  and  sold  her  interest  to  the 
said  Enoch  K.  Withers.  Also  in  Fauquier,  a  deed  April  25,  1798,  from 
William  Withers,  of  Lincoln  county,  Ky.,  to  John  and  Enoch  K. 
Withers,  of  Fauquier,  reciting  that  the  said  William  Withers  had  ap- 
pointed the  said  John  Withers,  his  attorney,  to  sell  any  land  he  (William) 
possessed  under  the  will  of  his  father  John  Withers,  of  Stafford  county, 
deceased.  To  the  only  son  of  John  Withers,  of  Stafford  idied  1794)  who 
can  be  definitely  assigned,  was  William  Withers  who  lived  in  Lincoln 
county,  Ky.,  in  1798. 

In  regard  to  the  branches  of  the  Withers  family  in  Fauquier  county, 
there  is  even  less  evidence  on  which  to  base  suggestions  as  to  their  con- 
nection with  the  main  stock  in  Stafford,  as  given  in  the  Bible  record. 
James  Withers,  of  Fauquier  made  a  will  dated  January  9,  and  proved 
January  20,  1784,  in  Fauquier.  He  gives  his  youngest  son  George 
Washington  Withers,  all  of  the  land  the  testator  lives  on,  573  acres,  4 
slaves,  &c. ;  to  eldest  son  James,  2  slaves  now  in  said  son's  possession; 
daughter  Nanny  Duncan,  i  slave;  son  John,  one  slave;  granddaughter 
Bridgett  McKay,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Bridgett  McKay,  one  slave. 
Rest  of  estate  between  wife  Jemima,  daughters  Hannah  Pickett,  Nanny 
Duncan,  and  Betty  Jennings,  and  sons  James,  William  and  John.  So  this 
James  Withers,  of  Fauquier,  who  died  in  1784,  had  issue:  i.  James;  2. 
John;  3.  William;  4.  George  Washington;  5.  Betty,  married  Jen- 
nings; 6.  Nanny,  married Duncan;  7.  Bridget,  married  Isaac  McKay. 

An  account  of  some  of  the  descendants  of  James  Withers  (1784)  is 
promised.  His  youngest  son  George  Washington  was  doubtless  bom 
during  or  shortly  after  the  Revolution,  say  about  1780.  Therefore  this 
James  Withers  could  hardly  have  been  the  James  of  the  Bible  record, 
who  was  born  in  17 17,  but  was  probably  the  one  bom  in  1736.  He  may, 
however,  have  been  a  son  of  one  of  the  other  sons  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth Withers,  with  whom  the  Bible  record  begins. 

Another  James  Withers  died  in  Fauquier  in  179 1.  As  he  had  a  grand- 
son bom  in  1760,  it  is  probable  that  he  was  the  James  Withers,  of  the 
Bible  record,  who  was  bom  in  17 17.     The  James  who  died  in  1791,  mar- 


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ried  Elizabeth ,  and  had  issue  (according  to  his  will  dated  May  4, 

and  proved  July  25,  1791):  i.  Thomas;  2.  John;  3.  Elizabeth;  4.  Han- 
nah; 5.  Cain;  6.  Lucy;  7.  Centhy;  8.  William;  9.  Sithy;  10.  Sally;  11. 
Patty. 

Thomas  Withers,  the  son,  made  a  will  which  was  dated  November  5, 
and  proved  in  Fauquier,  December  22,  1794.  In  it  he  names  his  brother 
William  Withers,  and  the  following  children:  i.  John;  2.  Enoch  (Keene); 
3.  Matthew  Keen;  4.  Susanna,  married  Chinn;  5.  Joseph;  6.  Wil- 
liam; 7.  Benjamin;  8.  Hannah,  married  Winn;  9.  Betty,  married 

Captain  Minor  Winn;  10.  Mary,  married Jordan;  11.  Sally,  married 

West. 

William  Withers  (son  of  John  of  1791)  made  a  will  dated  November 
21,  1803,  and  proved  in  Fauquier,  January  23,  1804,  names  the  following 
children:  i.  James,  to  whom  he  gives  land  in  Culpeper,  where  James 
lived,  and  109  acres  adjoining;  2.  Spencer,  to  whom  and  his  wife,  he 
gives  certain  land  with  reversion  to  their  children,  and  also  negroes,  &c. ; 
3.  Susanna;  4.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Withers;  5.  Molly,  wife  of  Wm. 
Withers;  6.  Alice,  wife  of  John  Ball,  Jr.;  7.  Agatha,  wife  of  Martin  Por- 
ter; 8.  Jesse,  to  whom  he  confirms  gift  of  land  where  Jesse  lives,  and 
which  had  been  bequeathed  to  him  (the  testator)  by  his  father;  9.  Eli- 
jah; 10.  Lewis,  to  whom  he  gives  the  land  where  testator  then  lived; 
and  also  a  legacy  to  granddaughter  Betty,  daughter  of  William  Withers. 
It  does  not  appear  whether  Elizabeth  and  Molly  Withers  were  daugh- 
ters or  daughters-in-law,  probably  the  former,  as  there  is  no  bequest  to 
their  husbands. 

Elijah  Withers  (son  of  William)  removed  to  Caswell  county,  N.  C, 
about  1800,  and  was  father  of  Elijah  K.  Withers,  and  grandfather  of  E. 
B.  Withers  both  of  that  county,  and  great-grandtather  of  Hon.  Eugene 
Withers,  of  Danville,  Va.,  member  of  the  State  Senate. 

The  will  of  Thomas  Withers  (.who  died,  1794)  has  been  cited.  A  de- 
scendant gives  the  following  in  regard  to  his  children:  i.  John,  moved 

to  Gallatin,  Tenn.;    2.   Matthew   Keane,  married  Jennings,  and 

moved  to  Kentucky;  3.  William,  married  Patsy  Ashby,  of  Fauquier,  and 
was  a  captain  in  the  Revolution;  4.  Enoch  Keene,  bom  October  14, 
1760;  married  Janet  Chinn;  5.  James,  died  unmarried;  6.  Joseph,  died 
unmarried;  7.  Benjamin,  moved  to  Kentucky,  and  had  a  large  family; 
8.  Sukey,  married  Chichester  Chinn;  9.  Sally,  married  Minor  Wynn,  10. 
Nancy,  married  Cato  West. 

The  will  of  Enoch  Keane  Withers,  or  Enoch  Withers,  as  he  is  styled 
in  the  will,  was  dated  September  22,  1809,  and  proved  in  F'auquier,  Au- 
gust 23,  1813.  He  states  that  he  is  about  to  visit  the  western  country. 
Hb  legatees  were  his  wife  Jannet;  son  Thomas  Thornton,  who  is  slated 
to  be  pursuing  his  studies  as  a  professional  man,  which  he  is  to  complete; 
son  Alexander  Scott,  who  is  also  being  educated  for  a  profession;  his 
children,  in  general,  and  his  sister  Anna.     There  is  recorded  in  Fauquier, 


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a  deed  dated  June  7,  1794,  from  Thomas  Withers,  Sr.,  of  Fauquier,  to 
Enoch  K.  Withers,  conveying  part  of  a  tract  of  land  f)atented  by  James 
Withers,  Sr.,  and  by  him  devised  to  the  said  Thomas  Withers. 

Enoch  K.  Withers  lived  at  "Green  Meadows,"  Fauquier  county.  He 
was  born  as  has  been  stated,  in  1760,  and  married  Jannet,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Jannet  (Scott)  Chinn.  They  had  nine  children,  in  regard 
to  only  three  of  whom  the  writer  has  information:  i .  Dr.  Thomas  Thorn- 
ton; 2.  Robert  Walter,  3d  son,  born  February  22,  1795;  3.  Alexander 
Scott,  fourth  child,  born  October  12,  1792,  educated  at  Washington  Col- 
lege, and  William  and  Mary,  was  a  lawyer;  removed  in  1827  to  the 
present  West  Virginia,  and  settled  finally  near  Clarksburg.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  well  known  *' Chronicles  of  Border  Warfare,*'  publisbed 
at  Clarksburg,  1831.  He  married  Malinda  Fisher,  and  died  January  23, 
1865,  having  had  two  sons  (one  Maior  Henry  W.  Withers,  served  in  12th 
(U.  S.)  Virginia  Regiment  in  the  Civil  War)  and  three  daughters:  Mrs. 
Jennet  S.,  wife  of  Thomas  Tavenner,  of  Parkersburg,  West  Virginia; 
Mrs.  Mary  T.  Owen,  of  Galveston,  Texas,  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Ann 
Thornhill  of  New  Orleans. 

Robert  Walter  Withers,  son  of  Enoch  K.  Withers,  was  the  father  of 
Robert  E.  Withers,  of  Wytheville,  Va.;  born  in  Campbell  county,  Sept. 
18,  1821;  Colonel  of  the  i8th  Virginia  Regiment,  C.  S.  A.,  and  was 
severely  wounded  near  Richmond  1862;  elected  Lieutenant  Governor  of 
Virginia  1873,  and  U.  S.  Senator  1875  81. 

The  will  of  a  **  James  Withers,  Sr.,"  which  is  endorsed  **  will  of  Cap- 
tain James  Withers,"  was  dated  November  23,  180S,  and  proved  in 
Fauquier,  December  20,  1808.  He  makes  bequests  to  his  children  and 
wife  (without  naming  them),  directs  part  of  his  lands  in  Kentucky  to  be 
sold  and  that  his  grandson  Braddock  Withers  is  to  be  given  to  "my 
brother  John  Withers,"  to  be  brought  up;  appoints  his  sons  Daniel  and 
Reuben  executors. 

The  only  brothers  James  and  John,  who  appear  in  any  of  the  wills  are 
the  sons  of  James  W^ithers  who  died  1784;  and  the  sons  of  Cain  Withers, 
of  Stafford.  But  the  James,  son  of  Cain,  is  known  from  deeds  which 
have  been  cited,  to  have  had  sons  named  Jennings,  Cave  and  John;  and 
neither  of  these  names  appears  in  the  will  of  James  (1808)  so  it  seems 
there  can  be  but  little  doubt  that  the  last  named  was  a  son  of  James 

(•784). 

William  (son  of  Thomas)  Withers  who  married  Patsy  Ash  by  and  is 
stated  to  have  been  a  captain  in  the  Revolution,  removed  to  Kentucky 
and  settled  in  Mercer  county.  He  was  again  in  the  army,  and  was 
severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  the  River  Raisin.  His  son  Abijah 
Withers,  was  the  father  of  William  Withers  of  Milsop,  Texas,  and  of 
Elizabeth  Withers,  who  married  Dr.  G.  B.  Mason,  of  Green  county.  Ills. 

Another  branch  of  the  family  which  has  not  yet  been  connected  with 
parent  line,  descends  from  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Bonham  Withers, 


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probably  of  F'rederick  county,  where  son  Reuben  was  born  March  29, 
1789.  Thos.  Withers  married  a  second  time  and  removed  to  Kentucky; 
but  his  son  Reuben  settled  in  Alexandria,  Va,,  where  he  became  an  ex- 
tensive merchant,  and  about  181 6  removed  to  New  York  city.  His  son 
Dunham  Withers,  was  the  father  of  A.  W.  Withers,  of  Gloucester  county, 
Va.  In  this  branch  of  the  family  is  an  old  armorial  emblazening,  on 
the  back  of  which  is  the  following  inscription:  **The  arms  of  the  Family 
of  Withers,  as  granted  and  confirmed  to  Sir  R'd  Withers,  of  East  Sheen, 
the  ancestor  of  the  poet,  and  registered  in  the  College  of  Arms,  London, 
1487."  The  ar.iis  are  argent,  a  chevron  guies,  between  three  crescents 
sabte.     Crest:  a  Rhinosceros  or. 

(to    be   CONTINIED.) 


THE  YATES  FAMILY. 

The  name  of  Yates  or  Yeates  appears  in  the  early  history  of  Virginia 
on  her  Land  Books  and  other  still  extant  records.  The  first  of  the  name 
who  seems  to  have  founded  a  family,  was  the  Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates, 
rector  of  Christ  Church,  Middlesex  county,  from  March  15,  1703,  until 
his  death,  July  26,  1734.  His  predecessor  in  charge  of  that  church  was 
the  Rev.  Robert  Yates,  who  was  supposed  by  Bishop  Meade  to  have 
been  his  father.  It  will  appear  that  this  is  a  mistake  and  that  they  were 
brothers,  not  father  and  son.  Robert  Yates'  rectorship  began  1699.  but 
his  health  compelled  him  to  relinquish  it  and  to  return  to  England. 

Charles  Yates,  born  1728,  emigrated  to  Virginia  in  1752  and  settled  in 
Fredericksburg,  where  he  lived  as  a  prosperous  merchant  until  his  death 
in  1809.  He  was  childless,  and  at  his  instance  his  nephew,  lohn  Or- 
feur  Yates,  came  to  Virginia  in  1792.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Law 
Class  in  William  and  Mary  College  in  1801  or  2,  where  he  fought  a  duel. 
He  inherited  all  of  his  uncle's  property,  including  a  farm  in  Jefferson 
county,  upon  which  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  is  the  stirps  of  a 
numerous  race. 

Charles  Yates  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Francis  Yates,  of  Whitehaven, 
England,  who  was  the  son  of  another  Rev.  Francis  Yates,  of  the  same 
place. 

One  of  the  descendants  of  John  O.  Yates,  the  Rev.  Felix  K.  Aglionby, 
now  of  England,  obtained  from  the  Registrar  of  the  Diocese  in  Chester 
the  following  record  of  the  family  of  William  Yates,  of  Shackley,  in  the 
Parish  of  Donnington,  who  died  in  1697,  and  Katharine  his  wife  who 
died  in  October,  1706. 

1.  John,  born  November  3,  1658.     Baptized  November  28,  1658. 

2.  Mary,  born  March  19.  1660.     Baptized,  April  23,  1660. 

3.  William,  baptized  December  10,  1661. 

4.  Benjamin,  baptized  August  20,  1663. 

5.  Samuel,  baptized  July  18,  1665. 


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6.  Francis,  baptized  September  14,  1666. 

7.  Richard,  baptized  June  19,  1669. 

8.  John,  baptized  May  19,  167 1. 

9.  Robert,  baptized  October  30,  1673, 

10.  Bartholomew,  baptized  August  24,  1676. 

The  Francis  in  this  family  was  the  above  named  Rev.  Francis  Yates, 
first,  of  Whitehaven,  and  that  the  Robert  and  Bartholomew  were  the 
rectors  of  Christ  Church,  Middlesex,  is  apparent  from  several  circum- 
stances. 

Colonel  Lewis  Willis,  of  Fredericksburg,  in  a  letter  to  Charles  Yates, 
written  from  camp  in  1777,  refers  to  his  relative  Parson  Yates — and  to 
the  writer's  school-boy  days  under  his  tuition.  John  O.  Yates,  in  his 
will,  enjoined  upon  his  heirs  the  preservation  of  the  tombstone  of  Rev. 
Bartholomew  Yates,  and  left  a  memorandum  stating  that  two  of  the 
sons  or  brothers  of  his  ancestor,  the  Rev.  PVancis  Yates,  came  to  Vir- 
ginia and  were  professors  at  William  and  Mary.  Our  Robert  and  Bar- 
tholomew did  come  to  Virginia,  and  one  of  them  was  professor  in  W^m. 
and  Mary  College  and  left  a  son  who  was  President  of  the  College. 

Mr.  Aglionby  stated  that  the  record  in  Aiumni  Oxonienses  bears  the 
name  of  Bartholomew  Yates  in  1694,  on  list  of  members  of  Brazenose 
College — and  Rev.  Jno.  Yates  Gholson  in  a  communication  to  Southern 
Churchman,  dated  Baltimore,  January  16,  1880,  says:  "We  find  from 
University  of  Oxford  records  here  in  Peabody  Institute  that  Bartholomew 
Yates  graduated  at  Brazenose  College  on  October  12,  1698."  The  in- 
scription on  tombstone  stated  that  our  Bartholomew  *'  died  July  26,  1734, 
in  the  fifty-seventh  year  of  his  age."  If  it  had  stated  that  he  was  aged 
fifty-seven  years,  the  age  would  have  exactly  corresponded  with  that  of 
the  above  William  Yates'  son  Bartholomew.  This  minute  discrepancy 
cannot  seriously  impair  however,  the  conclusive  force  of  the  inference 
from  the  correspondence  of  other  details. 

The  occurrence  of  the  Christian  names  of  the  Shackley  family  in  the 
Middlesex  family  in  Virginia  is  very  striking.  The  Parish  records  of 
Christ  Church  have  been  published  by  the  Colonial  Dames  of  Virginia. 
In  them  we  have  a  full  record  of  the  marriage  of  Rev.  Bartholomew 
Yates,  and  the  births  and  baptisms  of  all  his  children.  The  first  one 
bears  the  name  of  Catherine,  that  of  the  mother  of  the  Shackley  family, 
and  Revs.  William,  Robert  and  Bartholomew  of  the  Shackley  family 
are  reproduced  in  the  sons  of  Bartholomew,  and  the  masculine  F'rancis 
in  the  Shackley  family  has  its  corresponding  feminine  Frances  in  the 
Middlesex  family.  Nor  is  it  insignificant  that  the  three  clerical  Brothers, 
Revs.  Francis,  Robert  and  Bartholomew  in  the  elder  family  are  followed 
by  the  three  clerical  sons  of  Bartholomew. 

From  this  Shackley  family  the  Virginia  Yates  trace  their  descent — 
John  Orfeur  Yates  was  son  of who  was  son  of  Rev.  Francis  (2nd) 


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of  Whitehaven,  son  of  Rev.  Francis  (ist)  of  Whitehaven — son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Katherine  Yates  of  Shackley. 

This  John  O.  Yates  was  the  stirps  of  the  Jefferson  family,  of  which  a 
very  full  and  interesting  history  has  been  written  by  one  of  his  descen- 
dants, Miss Terrell,  and  printed  in  a  limited  edition  for  private 

distribution. 

A  younger  son  of  William  and  Katharine  Yates,  of  Shackley,  was  the 
Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates,  bom  1676,  died  July  26,  1734,  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Middlesex,  from  1703  'till  his  death,  and  for  some  years  Profes- 
sor of  Divinity  in  and  one  of  the  Visitors  of  William  and  Mary  College. 
His  memory  as  a  faithful  and  godly  minister  of  the  Gospel  was  cherished, 
says  Bishop  Meade  in  "  Old  Churches  and  Families,"  through  all  subse- 
quent colonial  history.  In  Bishop  Perry's  papers  of  the  Colonial  Church, 
page  296-8,  we  have  report  by  himself,  April  12,  1726,  to  his  ecclesiastical 
superiors,  in  which  he  states  that  he  arrived  in  Virginia  February  2,  1700, 
was  licensed  by  Bishop  Compton,  of  London,  to  officiate  as  Missionar>', 
September  10,  1700,  had  two  parishes  before  Christ  Church,  Middlesex 
county,  viz:  Sittonborne  and  Kingstone;  removed  from  latter  in  March, 
1703,  and  was  inducted  into  his  then  living  (Christ  Church,  Middlesex 
county,  Va.),  March  15,  1703,  and  that  he  had  a  Glebe  and  Glebe  House 
and  salary  of  16,000  pounds  of  Tobacco:  value  in  sterling  uncertain  and 
dependent  on,  state  of  market,  &c.  In  consequence  of  the  effort  of 
another  Parish  to  obtain  his  services,  the  Middlesex  vestry  enlarged 
and  improved  the  rectory  and  by  formal  application  to  the  Legislature 
raised  his  salary  to  20,000  pounds  Tobacco  On  a  visit  to  England  the 
members  of  his  Parish  wrote  to  the  Bishop  of  London  asking  him  to 
extend  to  their  rector  "  whatever  regard  or  respect  is  due  to  a  minister 
of  God's  holy  Gospel  who  returned  home  to  our  mother  country  after 
25  years  of  diligence,  &  God  be  thanked  we  hope  we  have  good  reason 
to  believe,  effectual  labor  in  the  Lord's  vineyard  in  these  plantations." 
Bishop  Perry  publishes  another  letter  in  similar  terms,  signed  Philaga- 
thur,  appealing  for  increase  of  his  compensation, saying:  "  If  ever  a  man 
deserved  any  thing  for  propagating  the  Gospsl  in  these  parts  he  does," 
and  speaks  of  his  two  sons  in  England,  both  studying  and  dedicated  to 
religion— page  348,  355. 

He  was  one  of  the  Visitors  of  William  and  Mary  College,  and  subse- 
quently up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  professor  of  Divinity  in  that  institu- 
tion. 

He  married  Sarah  Mickleburrough,  September  14,  1704.  He  left  three 
sons,  all  like  himself,  ministers  of  the  Colonial  Church,  all  of  whom  are 
recorded  in  a  list  of  the  clerg>'  of  Virginia,  October  30,  1754.  Perry's 
Col.  Ch,^  p.  411.  Of  one  of  these  sons  Mr.  Blair  writes  to  the  Bishop  of 
London,  May  29,  1740,  p.  362:  "One  Mr.  Yates,  son  of  a  very  worthy 
Father,  who  died  a  few  years  ago  (if  it  is  not  done  already)  will  wait  on 
your  Lordship  for  orders  and  licenses,  and  will  be  very  welcome  here 


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on  account  of  his  Father's  Memory."  The  dates  hereafter  given  from 
Alumni  OxonienseSy  of  the  two  elder  son's  university  record,  indicate 
that  this  reference  is  to  the  younger  son,  William. 

The  Parish  Register  of  Christ  Church,  records  the  marriage  as  above 
stated,  of  Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates  and  Sarah  Mickleburrough,  and  of 
births  and  baptisms  of  their  six  children — three  daughters  and  three 
sons: 

ist.  Catherine,  b.  June  24;  Bap.  July  4,  1706. 
2d.  Sarah,  b.  Mar.  3,  1707. 

3d.   Bartholomew,  b.  Feb.  9;  Bap.  Feb.  17,  1712. 
4th.  Robert,  b.  Jan.  8;  Bap.  Jan.  20,  1715. 
5th.  Frances,  b.  Nov.  15;  Bap.  Nov.  17,  1718. 
6th.  William,  b.  Dec.  10;  Bap.  Dec.  14,  1720. 

Of  the  daughters,  we  know  very  little,  ist.  Catharine,  married  John 
Walker,  May  10,  1733,  birth  and  baptism  as  above,  and  death  of  Catha- 
rine Walker,  October  5,  1738,  and  births  and  baptisms  of  two  children 
recorded  in  Parish  Register: 

1.  Sarah,  b.  June  30,  1734.     Bap.  July  4,  1734. 

2.  Clara,  b.  Aug.  7.     Bap.  Aug.  9,  1737. 

John  Walker  died  1745,  leaving  in  his  will  his  daughter  Sarah,  to  care 
of  her  grandmother  Sarah  Yates,  and  her  daughter  Clara,  to  Captain 
Henry  Thacker  and  wife. —  Va.  Nisi.  Mag.,  1,  470. 

2d.  Sarah.  Parish  Register  only  records  her  birth.  As  the  record  of 
birth  and  baptism  was  generally  made  together — she  may  have  died  in 
infancy.  She  may  have  lived  to  be  the  first  wife  of  John  Robinson  (son  of 
Christopher  and  Judith  Wormeley)  born  1707,  died  1787,  whose  first  wife 
was  a  Miss  X^ii^s.— Rich' d  Standard,  March  19,  1881. 

3d.  Frances,  married  F'ebruarj'  2,  1737-8,  Rev.  John  Reade,  son  of 
Thomas  Reade  (son  of  George  Reade  and  Elizabeth  Martian,  ancestors 
of  General  Washington)  and  Lucy  Gwin.  He  was  rector  of  Stratton 
Major  Parish  in  King  and  Queen  county,  and  probably  died  in  1743, 
when  he  ceased  to  be  rector.  After  death  of  first  Bartholomew  Yates, 
while  the  Parish  was  waiting  for  Bartholomew,  second,  to  be  ordained, 
he  officiated  temporarily  in  Christ  Church,  where  he  probably  became 
acquainted  with  his  wife.  The  Parish  Register  records  her  birth,  bap- 
tism and  marriage,  and  birth  and  baptism  of  her  son  John,  born  June  19, 
baptized  June  20,  1744.  This  son  died  in  infancy,  but  she  had  also  a 
daughter  Sarah,  who  married  in  March,  1760,  John  Rootes. —  Wm.  and 
Mary  Quarterly,  III,  40;  IV,  122;  VII,  190. 


THE   BOOKER  FAMILY. 

In  the  York  county  records,  book  1638-1648,  page  434,  the  following 
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«»****  [words  worn  off]  Know  unto  all  men  by  these  pres- 
ents, that  I,  Edward  Booker  *  *  *  doe  make,  constitute,  ordayne 
and  appoynt  my  Brother  in  law,  Richard  Glover,  to  be  my  true  and  law- 
full  attumey  for  me  &  in  my  name,  &  and  to  my  sole  &  p'per  use  to 
aske  demand  Levy,  recover  and  receive  all  bills,  debts  and  demands  due 
to  me  the  said  Booker,  within  the  Collony  of  Virginia,  alsoe  to  rec.  out 
of  the  hands  of  ffrances  Cold,  all  such  tob.  reced.  or  bills  to  be  rec'd  or 
whatsoever  of  mine  in  his  hands  &  upon  denyall  of  payment,  to  sue,  ar- 
rest, implead  &  imprison  any  of  my  debt'rs  within  the  said  collony  and 
upon  receipt  of  any  quantity  or  quantities  of  tob.  to  give  acquittance  for 
the  same  &  if  it  seeme  good  to  the  s'd  Glover  to  constitute  on[e]  or 
more  attumeys  under  8:  looke  what  hee  or  they  shall  doe  or  cause  to  be 
done  in  or  about  the  premises.  I  doe  rati  fie  &  confirme  as  if  I  myselfe 
weare  p'sonally  present.  Witness  my  hand  &  seale,  second  day  of  Sep- 
tember, in  the  Briel,  1648."     [Brill  in  Holland.] 

Edvv.\rd  Booker,     (the  seale.) 
In  the  presence  of  us: 

Tho.  Allen,  John  Cannart. 

This  Edward  Booker  was  perhaps  the  father  of  Richard  Booker,  of 
Ciloucester  county,  V^a.  Richard  Glover  was  a  London  merchant,  who 
had  extensive  dealings  with  Virginia. 

From  the  earliest  land  grants  in  1623,  or  there  abouts,  down  to  the 
Revolution,  there  was  not  a  land  grant  to  any  Booker,  except  to  this 
immediate  family. 

In  the  York  county  records  for  the  date  given  below,  on  page  38,  the 
following  appears: 

**  Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I,  Richard  Booker,  by  virtue 
of  a  letter  of  attorney  from  Samuel  Edwards  have  constituted  and  ap- 
pointed my  father  in  Law,  Mr.  John  Leake,  to  be  my  lawfull  attorney 
(&c..  &c.),  this  20th  day  of  ffebruary,  167 2^." 

On  July  20,  1692,  David  Coghills,  of  Rappahannock  county,  conveyed 
to  Richard  Booker,  of  Gloucester  county,  250  acres  of  land  near  the 
head  of  Port  Tobacco  Creek,  Rappahannock  county.  On  September 
24,  1692,  Mr.  John  Underbill  and  Mar>'  his  wife,  made  a  deed  for  200 
acres  of  land  to  Captain  Richard  Booker  (York  Records,  p.  170).  In 
another  column  of  the  York  records,  the  above  Richard  Booker  is 
alluded  to  as  being  of  "ye  parish  of  Abington,  in  ye  County  of  Glou- 
cc*ster,"  and  on  the  upj>er  side  of  Fellgate's  Creek. 

In  July,  16S5  (L.  Book,  7,  p.  540)  Captain  Richard  Booker  received  a 
grant  of  740  acres  in  Gloucester  county,  on  April  20,  1694,  a  grant  of  180 
acres  in  Gloucester,  and  on  October.  20,  1704  a  grant  of  613  acres  in 
Essex. 

Captain  Richard'  Booker  married,  first,  Rebecca  (Leake?),  and  sec- 
ondly, Hannah  Hand.*     [See  note  at  end] 


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Issue  (by  first  marriage):  i.  Edmund;'^  2.  Judith;*  3.  Edward;^  4. 
Ann;'  5.  Richard;*  6.  )ohn,' baptized  August  3,  16^  {Abingdon  Reg- 
ister). Issue  (by  second  marriage,  as  far  as  known):  7.  Frances;*  8. 
George,*of  Gloucester  county.  Frances  Stokes  in  her  will,  dated  No- 
vember I,  1 75 1,  bequeathed  property  to  her  brother  George  Booker,  of 
Gloucester  county,  and  to  his  children  Richard,  George  and  Edward 
Booker,  and  Sarah  Mumford. 

7.  Frances*  Booker,  married  Stokes,  and  died   in  Amelia 

county,  in  1752,  leaving  a  considerable  estate.  Her  will,  dated  Novem- 
ber I,  1751,  and  proved  December  28,  1752,  in  Amelia,  is  of  much  assis- 
tance in  giving  a  correct  account  of  the  family.  She  bequeaths  land  to 
Lucy  Clarke.  Legacies  to  Richard,  George  and  Edward  Booker,  and 
Sarah  Mumford.  children  of  '*  my  brother  George  Booker,  of  Gloucester 
county."  To  Hannah,  daughter  of  Richard  Clarke  and  Lucy  his  wife. 
To  James,  son  of  Richard  Clarke.  To  Mary,  wife  of  Samuel  Tarry  and 
F^rances  and  Mary  Tarry,  their  daughters.  To  Edward  son  of  Major 
Booker  (Major  Richard  Booker).  To  Edward  Booker,  .son  of  Captain 
Edward  Booker.  To  Major  Richard  Booker,  Captain  Edward  Booker, 
Lucy  Clarke  and  Mary  Tarry,  children  of  Colonel  Edward  Booker 
deceased.  To  '*  my  brothers  "  George  Booker  and  William  Marshall. 
To  Edmond  Booker,  Sr.,  and  Jane  his  wife.  To  John  and  Marshall 
Tabb,  children  of  Captain  Thomas  Tabb.  To  Major  Richard  Booker, 
and  Purify  Booker.  To  the  poor  of  Raleigh  parish,  Amelia  county,  ^25. 
To  Judith,  daughter  of  Colonel  Edward  Booker. 

I.  Edmund*  Booker,  Hved  for  a  time  in  Essex  county.  There  is 
recorded  in  Amelia  a  deed,  dated  June,  1736,  from  Edward  Booker,  of 
Amelia,  conveying  to  Edmund  Booker,  of  Essex,  a  tract  of  land  in 
Amelia,  near  Richard  Booker's  mill.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Amelia, 
which  he  represented  in  tKe  House  of  Burgesses,  in  1757,  i^  Journal)  and 
1758  [Burk's  Va.,  vol.  111).  He  died  in  1758.  The  will  of  "Edmund 
Booker,  Sr."  was  dated  November  10,  1757,  and  proved  in  Amelia, 
September  28,  1758.  His  legatees  were  his  wife  Jane,  daughter  Frances 
Clement,  sons  Edmund,  John,  William,  and  Edward,  and  daughter 
Rebecca  Overton. 

Issue  of  Edmund*  and  Jane  Booker:  9.  Edmund;*  10.  John;*  11. 
William;*  12.  Edward;' 13.  Frances,*  married  Clement;  14.  Re- 
becca,* married Overton. 

3.  Col.  Edward*  Booker,  of  **  Winterham,"  Amelia  county,  was 
baptized  June  2,  16^  i  Abingdon  Register)  dLV\d  ^\e6  November  2,  1750 
{Family  Bible).  He  removed  from  Gloucester  to  the  part  of  Prince 
George  county  which  is  now  Amelia,  and  was  appointed  Justice  of  the 
Peace  of  Prince  George  in  1733,  .was  one  of  the  first  justices  of  Amelia 
at  its  formation  in  1736,  and  was  one  of  its  first  representatives  in  the 
House  of  Burgesses  in  the  same  year.  (  Virginia  Historical  Register, 
IV,  135.)     In  1736  and  1743  he  was  presiding  justice  of  the  county.     Col. 


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Edward  Booker,  married  twice:  (i)  Mary ;  (2)  Judith,  sister  of  Wil- 
liam Archer,  of  Amelia  count>'.  The  will  of  "Edward  Booker,  Sr.," 
was  dated  July  18,  and  proved  in  Amelia,  November  16,  1750.  His 
legatees  were:  wife  Judith,  son  Edward  Booker,  Jr.;  daughter  Judith 
Booker;  makes  provision  in  case  Stith-  Hardaway,  or  any  other  person 
in  his  own  right,  "or  in  the  right  of  the  daughters  of  my  wife  by  her 
first  husband,  should  bring  suit  against  my  executors,  in  regard  to  the 
father  or  grandfather's  estates; "  refers  to  the  plantation  at  Winterham, 
where  he  lives;  appoints  his  son  Richard  Booker,  and  Edward  Booker, 
Jr., and  sons-in-law  Richard  Clarke  and  Samuel  Tarry,  executors. 

The  inventory  of  the  personal  estate  of  "  Colonel  Edward  Booker,** 
was  appraised  at  jCi.iSS,  2.  6. 

The  will  of  Judith  (who  died  January  7,  1750)  widow  of  Edward 
Booker,  was  dated  December  14,  1750,  and  proved  January  18,  1750-51. 
Legatees:  daughter  Judith  Booker,  "my  four  daughters  '*  [doubtless  by 
first  husband  ]  brother  William  Archer,  and  friend  Samuel  Cobbs, 
executors. 

Issue  (ist  m  ):  13.  Lucy,' married  Richard  Clarke,  of  Amelia.  He 
was  appointed  a  justice  of  Amelia,  in  1740,  but  declined  to  accept;  14. 
Richard;*  15.  Rebecca,'  married,  in  1736,  Thomas  Tabb,  of  Amelia, 
marriage  bond  April  10.  This  was  Colonel  Thomas  Tabb,  of  'Clay  . 
Hill,*'  long  a  Burgess;  16.  Mary,  married  Samuel  Tarry,  or  Terr>'  and 
died  November  3,  1756;  17.  Edward^*  (2d  m.)  18.  Judith.' 

5.  Richard*  Booker,  was  baptized  October  29,  1688  {Abingdon  Reg- 
ister) and  died  April  25,  1743  {Family  Bible). 

On  July  31,  1732,  he  had  a  grant  of  970  acres  in  Prince  George  county 
(now  Amelia) — Land  Book,  14,  p.  459.  In  this  grant  he  is  styled  "  Rich- 
ard Booker,  of  James  City  county,  Gent."  This  land  adjoined  that  of 
his  brother  Edward,  was  between  Knibbs  and  Flat  creeks.  On  Septem- 
ber 16.  1 741,  as  Rich'd  Booker,  of  James  City  county,  he,  with  Martha 
his  (second)  wife,  conveyed  certain  lots  at  Queen  Mary  Post,  Williams- 
burg (York  Records,  1741,  p.  46).  He  was  appointed  a  justice  of  James 
City  county  in  1730  and  again  in  1738  {Council  Journal),  but  towards 
the  end  of  his  life  removed  to  York  county,  where  he  died.  His  will  is 
as  follows: 

In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I,  Richard  Booker,  of  the  county  of 
York,  being  sick  and  weak  in  body,  but  of  perfect  sense  and  memory 
(blessed  be  God),  do  make  my  last  will  and  testament.  That  is  to  say, 
I  first  recommend  my  soul  to  the  protection  of  my  Great  Creator,  hop- 
ing for  pardon  for  my  offences,  thro'  the  merits  and  mediation  of  my 
blessed  redeemer  and  Savior,  and  as  to  my  body,  I  desire  it  my  be  de- 
cently buried  according  to  the  Ceremony  &  Custom  of  the  Church  of 
England.  My  Worldly  Estate  w'ch  it  has  pleased  God  to  bless  me  with 
I  dispose  of  in  manner  following. 

Imprimis.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Richard  Booker,  all  my 
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lands  lying  in  Gloucester  County  for  and  during  the  natural  life  of  him 
&  his  wife,  and  after  their  decease,  to  his  son  Richard,  and  his  heirs 
forever.  But  if  my  said  Grandson  Richard  should  dye  before  he  arrives 
at  the  age  of  Twenty-one  years  or  shall  have  a  son  lawfully  begotten  to 
inherit  it,  then  I  give  the  said  lands  to  my  Grandson  Joseph  Booker  and 
his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  son  Richard  two  negroes  named  Hampton  and 
Moll,  and  all  my  stock  of  cattle,  sheep  &  hogs,  which  are  at  my  planta- 
tion in  Gloucester  County,  on  Condition  that  he  shall  make  up  the  num- 
ber of  twenty-four  head  of  cattle  to  the  Legatees  or  Executors  of  the 
last  will  of  my  late  wife  Martha,  to  be  delivered  to  them  at  the  Capital 
Landing  if  required.  I  also  give  to  my  son  Richard,  my  broad  Cloth 
suit  of  Cloathes  and  my  old  Hatt. 

Item.  I  give  my  travelling  chair  and  harness  to  my  three  daughters, 
Frances  Warburton,  Rebecca  Coulthard,  and  Martha  Barrett. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  son  William  Booker,  my  new  saddle  and  blue 
Horsing  [housing]  and  half  my  Household  goods  and  stock  of  Cattle, 
Horses,  sheep  &  hogs  at  my  plantation  in  Caroline  County,  now  in  the 
possession  of  Thomas  Croucher.  In  consideration  of  w'ch  It  is  my  will 
&  desire  that  my  said  son  William  shall  pay  to  my  daughter  Purify,  the 
sum  of  Ten  pounds  Curr't  money,  on  the  day  of  her  marriage,  which  I 
do  hereby  bequeath  unto  her. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  Daughter  Purify,  my  negro  boy  named  Charles, 
and  my  negro  Girl  Alice;  my  white  Cart  horse  and  a  mare  called  Young 
rose,  also  a  good  woman's  saddle,  with  a  good  covering,  Furniture  & 
Bridle,  which  is  to  be  delivered  to  her  by  my  son-in-law  John  Coult- 
hard. 

Item.  I  give  and  Bequeath  to  my  Grand  Children,  viz:  John  War- 
burton,  Richard  Coulthard,  James  Barrett,  and  Richard,  the  son  of  WMl- 
liam  Booker,  five  pounds  Curr't  money  each  of  them;  and  also  five 
pounds  to  the  first  child  my  Daughter  Hoy  shall  be  delivered  of  alive, 
which  said  several  sums  I  hereby  require  my  son  John  to  pay  to  the 
fathers  of  my  said  Grand  Children  as  soon  as  it  can  be  conveniently 
raised  out  of  the  Estate  hereafter  devised  to  him,  at  least  within  two 
years  after  my  decease. 

Item.  I  give  all  my  household  goods  w'ch  are  at  my  son-in-Law  John 
Coulthard,  unto  my  two  Daughters  Rebecca  Coulthard  and  Purify 
Booker,  to  be  equally  divided  between  them. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  Daughter  Purify  three  cows  w'ch  are  at  my  son- 
in-law  John  Coulthard's,  in  lieu  of  five  young  cattle  left  to  her  by  her 
Godfather  Lowry. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  John  Booker,  my  plantation 
lying  on  Ware  Creek  in  New  Kent  County,  and  my  plantation  lying  near 
Knightsfield,  in  James  City  County,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever;  also 
my  negro  boy  Harry,  and  all  my  negroes,  Horses,  Cattle,  sheep,  hogs. 


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and  Household  goods  at  the  said  plantations;  and  all  my  negroes,  and 
half  of  the  stock  of  horses,  cattle,  sheep,  hogs  and  Household  goods 
w'ch  are  at  my  plantation  in  Caroline  County. 

Item.  I  give  to  my  son  John  Booker,  all  my  crop  of  Tobo.  which 
shall  be  made  this  year  at  my  plantation  in  Caroline;  and  one  hogshead 
of  nine  hundred  pounds  of  nett  Tobo.  which  shall  be  made  this  year  at 
my  plantation  in  Gloucester;  which  I  order  to  be  applyed  by  my  son 
John  to  the  payment  of  my  just  debts,  and  fifty  shillings  out  of  it  to  be 
given  by  him  to  my  Daughter  Purify  to  buy  such  wearing  apparel  as  she 
likes. 

Item.  I  give  to  Thomas  Robins,  of  Gloucester  County,  my  old  Coat, 
two  waste  coats,  and  Leather    *    *    . 

Item.     I  give  to  my  son  John  Booker,  all  other  my  Estates,  both  Real 

&  personal.     And  lastly,  I  do  hereby  appoint  my  son  John  Booker  and 

my  friend  William  Parks  [the  publisher  of  the  first  Virginia  Gazette,  in 

1736]  Executors  of  this  my  last  will  &  Testament,  hereby  revoking  & 

making  void  all  other  wills  by  me  heretofore  made.     It  is  my  ftirther 

will  and  desire  that  no  appraisement  be  made  of  my  Estate  and  that  my 

Executors  be  not  obliged  to  give  security  for  the  Execution  of  this  will. 

In  witness  whereof  I  set  my  hand  &  seal  this  Twenty-first  day  of  April, 

1743. 

Rich'd  Booker.        (L.  S.) 

Signed,  sealed,  published,  and  declared  in  presence  of: 

Mary  Hornby,  Martha  Crips,  Jean  Tenison,  William  Dunn. 

At  a  Court  held  for  York  County,  May  the  16,  1743,  This  last  will  & 
Testament  of  Richard  Booker,  dece*d  was  this  day  presented  in 
Court  by  the  Ex' tors  therein  named,  who  made  oath  to  it,  and  being 
proved  by  the  oath  of  all  the  witnesses,  was  ordered  to  be  recorded. 

Test:        Matt.  Hubard,  CI.  Ct 
A  copy — Teste:    T.  T.  Hudgins,  Clerk  of  York  County  Court 

Richard  *  Booker,  of  James  City  and  York  counties,  married  twice. 
First,  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  Lowry  and  Frances  Purefoy,  his 

wife  (see  note),  and  second,  Martha .     All  of  the  children  appear 

to  have  been  by  the  first  marriage. 

Issue:  19.  Richard,'  was  left  land  in  Gloucester.  In  1743  he  had  sons 
Richard  and  Joseph;  20.  IVilliam;*  21.  John;*  22.  Frances,*  married 
Warburton,  23.  Rebecca,*  married  John  Coulthard.  A  Bible  en- 
try gives  the  death  of  a  **  Rebecca  Douthart,  February  16,  1763,"  doubt- 
less the  same;  24.  Martha,*  married  Barrett.     In  1743  she  had 

a  son,  James  Barrett,  named  in  her  father's  will.  In  1785,  William 
Booker,  of  Amelia  (William,*  above)  conveyed  certain  land  in  Amelia 


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to  his  nephew  Thomas  Barrett,  for  life;  25.  Purefoy,  married  in  1756, 
Stith  Hardaway  (marriage  bond.  Amelia,  December  5,  1756.) 

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NOTE. 

*  Hannah  Hand  was  a  daughter  of  Richard  Hand  and  Frances  Purify 
or  Purefoy,  his  wife.  She  married  first  Captain  William  Marshall,  justice 
of  the  peace  of  Elizabeth  City  county,  originally  from  Barbadoes,  who 
was  murdered  at  Hampton  by  some  sailors  about  1692.  Issue  by  this 
marriage,  one  son  William  Marshall.  She  married,  secondly  in  1694, 
Captain  Richard  Booker.  Richard  Hand,  died  about  1689,  and  William 
Lowry,  on  marrying  his  widow  Frances  (Purefoy)  Hand,  became  his 
administrator.  Mrs.  Frances  Purefoy-Hand-Lowry,  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  Purefoy,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Purefoy  of  the  Council.  In 
1698  John  Tabb,  who  had  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Richard  Hand, 
gave  a  receipt  to  William  Lowry,  administrator  of  Richard  Hand,  and 
•'  father-in-law  (step-father)  to  Martha,  Tabb's  wife,  for  her  father's  estate, 
and  for  some  stock  left  by  Major  Matthew  Warkelin  (Wakelin)  her 
**  grandfather-in-law"  (which  means  that  Wakelin  married  the  widow 
of  her  grandfather  Thomas  Purefoy,  Jr. ).  In  1675  Wakelin  was  guardian 
to  Purefoy's  children.  In  1720  Hannah  Booker,  of  Abingdon  parish, 
Gloucester,  gave  a  power  to  William  Lowry,  of  Elizabeth  City,  to  release 
to  Thomas  Kerby,  of  Charles  Parish  (who  married  Frances  Lowry)  her 
title  to  certain  land  in  Ehzabeth  City.  About  the  same  time  William 
Lowry  deeded  to  John  Lowry  certain  lands  adjoining  Hannah  Booker's, 
coming  to  him  (William)  as  marrying  *' Frances,  one  of  the  daughters 
and  co-heirs  of  Thomas  Purify  of  the  parish,  and  county  aforesaid,  and 
mother  of  the  said  John  Lowry." 

William  Lowry  in  his  will,  proved  May  13,  1724,  names  his  daughter 
Frances  Kerby,  deceased  wife  of  Thomas  Kerby^  and  her  five  children; 
his  sons  John  and  William  Lowry,  daughter  Margaret  Booker,  grandson 
William  Booker,  daughter-in-law  Martha  Tabb  [a  step-daughter]  Mary 
Lowry,  and  Jane  Lowry;  son-in-law  Richard  Booker  [a  step-son],  Thos. 
Kerby  and  Richard  Booker.  For  these  notes  from  the  York  and  Eliza- 
beth City  Record,  we  are  indebted  to  the  Wiiliam  and  Mary  Quarterly 
July,  1898.  His  daughter  Margaret  married  Richard'  Booker,  of  York 
county. 

Captain  Thomas  Purifoy,  Purify,  Purifie  or  Piirfry,  as  the  name  is 
variously  rendered,  was  principal  commander  of  Elizabeth  City  county 
in  1628,  and  a  commissioner  ( justice)  of  that  county  in  the  same  year; 
Burgess  for  the  lower  part  of  Elizabeth  City  in  1629-30,  and  a  member 
of  the  Council  in  163 1.  A  contemporary  says  of  him:  "He  is  a  soldier 
and  a  man  of  open  heart,  hating,  for  ought  I  can  perceive,  all  kinds  of 
dissimulation  and  baseness."  He  named  (according  to  a  land  patent) 
one  of  his  estates  (a  thousand  acre  tract)  "  Drayton,"  doubtless  after  the 


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place  of  that  name  in  Leicestershire,  which  was  one  of  the  seats  of  the 
family  of  Purefoy,  baronets,  a  title  now  extinct.  There  is  among  the 
Maryland  records  a  deposition,  dated  1640,  of  Lucy  wife  of  Captain 
Thomas  Purefoy,  of  Elizabeth  City  county,  in  which  she  states  that  she 
was  then  about  forty-two  years  of  age,  and  was  bom  "infra  Ranson,'* 
in  Leicestershire.  In  1656  a  grant  was  made  to  W.  Moore  for  land  at 
Old  Poquoson,  which  had  been  assigned  to  him  by  Lucy,  relict  of  Cap- 
tain Purifoy,  and  confirmed  by  Thomas  Purifoy,  his  son  and  heir. 


THE  COLES  FAMILY. 

[We  are  indebted  to  a  descendant  for  the  following  account  of  one 
branch  of  the  Coles  family.] 

The  Coles  family  of  Virginia  is  of  English  descent.  At  an  early  date 
when  the  English  government,  in  order  to  subjugate  Ireland,  and  render 
it,  if  possible,  obedient  to  the  laws  of  England,  offered  large  induce- 
ments to  English  gentlemen  to  emigrate,  and  in  that  country  one  of  the 
ancestors  of  the  present  Virginia  branch  removed  to  Enniscorthy,  situ- 
ated in  the  original  division  of  Lienster  county,  Wexford,  in  the  South- 
eastern part  of  Ireland.  His  descendants  still  continue  to  live  there. 
John  Coles  was  a  younger  son,  and  while  still  a  very  young  man,  on  ac- 
count of  having  incurred  the  displeasure  of  his  father,  came  over  to  Vir- 
ginia about  the  last  years  of  Governor  Spotswood's  administration, 
precise  year  unknown. 

He  was  a  very  early  settler  of  Richmond,  and  it  has  been  said  that  he 
built  the  first  dwelling  house  ever  erected  there.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Winston,  of  Hanover  county,  who  came  to  America 
in  1704.  A  sister  of  Isaac  Winston  (Sarah)  married  the  father  of  Pat- 
rick Henry,  making  the  children  of  John  Coles  and  the  celebrated  Vir- 
ginia orator  first  cousins.  By  this  marriage,  John  Coles  had  five  children. 
I.  Colonel  Walter  Coles;  2.  Sarah  Coles;  3.  Mary  Coles;  4.  Colonel  John 
Coles;  5.  Colonel  Isaac  Coles,  who  was  a  member  of  the  first  Congress 
(1789),  serving  many  years,  and  a  colleague  of  James  Madison.  A 
younger  brother  of  John  Coles  came  over  to  Virginia  subsequently,  and 
lived  in  Hanover  county  at  his  seat,  Coles  Hill;  he  married  Lucy,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Winston,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  Dolly  Madison.  Not 
long  after  his  emigration,  John  Coles  was  possessed  of  a  large  fortune 
from  which  we  are  led  to  infer  that  his  father  forgave  him,  and  left  him 
his  share  of  the  paternal  estate.  He  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Hal- 
ifax county,  on  the  Staunton  river,  consisting  of  two  plantations,  whence 
comes  the  name  of  Coles  Ferry.  He  also  owned  and  cultivated  a  place 
in  Albemarle  county,  called  after  the  family  place  in  Ireland.  He  built 
a  house  there  for  a  summer  residence,  and  in  the  autumn  amused  by 
hunting,  of  which  he  was  very  fond.  He  also  owned  a  great  deal  of 
land  in  and  around  Richmond,  consisting  of  city  lots,  and  farms  in  the 


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neighborhood.  He  once  gave  a  whole  square  in  Richmond  for  a  fine 
horse.  His  house  was  on  the  top  of  Church  Hill,  commanding  a  fine 
view.  He  was  warden  in  St.  John's  Church  at  the  time  ol  his  death,  in 
1747,  and  he  was  buried  under  the  chancel  of  that  church.  According 
to  the  aristocratic  ideas  of  that  day,  he  left  most  of  his  property  to  his 
eldest  son  Walter,  John  inheriting  Enniscorthy  which  is  situated  on  what 
is  now  called  the  Green  Mountain,  in  Albemarle  county,  Va.  This  land 
was  at  that  time  in  Goochland  county,  long  before  it  was  divided  and 
called  Albemarle. 

The  first  John  Coles  built  a  house  on  Enniscorthy  which  was  used  as 
a  summer  residence  long  before  the  Revolution.  This  house  was  en- 
larged and  beautified  by  his  son  Colonel  John  Coles,  and  was  one  of  the 
most  commodious  and  extensive  residences  in  the  state.  It  was  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1839.  The  three  sons  of  the  first  John  Coles  resided:  Walter, 
at  his  seat  Mildendo,  in  Halifax  county:  John  at  Enniscorthy,  and  Isaac, 
first  in  Halifax,  but  subsequently  he  removed  to  Pittsylvania.  John 
Coles,  second  son  of  John  Coles  and  Mary  Winston,  was  bom  in  1745, 
two  years  before  the  death  of  his  father.  He  inherited  Enniscorthy. 
He  was  a  colonel  of  militia  during  the  Revolution. 

After  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  the  English  prisoners  then  taken 
were  stationed  at  Charlottesville,  and  for  a  long  time  were  under  the 
command  of  Colonels  Coles,  Bland  and  Wood.  He  was  one  of  the 
patrons  of  the  Virginia  turf,  and  was  remarkable  for  owning  a  very  fine 
stock  of  horses.  He  had  the  virtue  of  the  old  fashioned  profu.«?e  Virginia 
hospitality  developed  to  an  unusual  degree.  He  kept  open  house  at 
Enniscorthy,  and  there  was  rarely  a  time  when  they  were  without  guests. 
Among  those  who  would  come,  not  for  a  day,  but  for  weeks  were  Jeffer- 
son, Madison,  Monroe,  Patrick  Henry,  Wirt,  Edmond,  John  and  Thomas 
Moon,  Randolph.  Tazewell,  and  a  number  of  prominent  men  of  the 
State. 

Colonel  John  Coles  married  Mar>'  E.  Tucker,  daughter  of  John  Tucker 
and  Elizabeth  Travis.     Their  children  were  as  follows: 

Walter  Coles  married  first,  Eliza  Cocke,  daughter  of  Bowler  Cocke,  of 
Turkey  Island;  second,  Sally  Swann,  of  Powhatan  county. 

Mary  Coles  married  Robert,  son  of  Edward  Carter,  of  Blenheim. 

Rebecca  married  Richard  Singleton,  of  South  Carolina. 

Sally  Coles  married  Andrew  Stevenson,  (minister  to  England). 

Emily  married  John  Rutherfoord,  of  Richmond,  Va. 

Elizabeth  Coles  died  unmarried. 

John  Coles  married  Selina,  daughter  of  Sir  Peyton  Skipwith,  of  Prest- 
would. 

Tucker  Coles  married  Helen,  daughter  of  Sir  Peyton  Skipwith  of 
Prestwould. 

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Bernard-Reade-Throckmorton  Chart  (VI,  407). 

Mr  Throckmorton,  the  compiler  of  the  chart  from  which  that  pub- 
lished was  made,  did  not  have  an  opportunity  to  revise  the  proof,  hence 
some  errors  appeared.  It  should  have  been  stated  that  the  original  pur- 
pose of  this  chart  was  to  show  descent  from  the  barons  who  were  guar- 
antors of  Magna  Charta,  and  that  therefore,  names  of  husband  or  wife, 
as  the  case  might  be,  who  were  not  in  these  lines  of  descent,  were 
omitted. 

The  corrections  are  as  follows:  P.  407,  Robert,  of  Little  Paxton,  1699, 
not  1669;  and  Hail  Weston,  not  Hail  Western.  P.  408,  **  brother  of  Ga- 
briel, 1665-1707,"  should  have  been  **  1665-1737."  Same  page,  the 
statement  '*  Margaret,  daughter  of  Baron  Scroop,  of  Masham,  Upsal, 
&c.,  is  wrong.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Baron  Scroop,  of  Bolton,  and 
her  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Baron  Scroop,  of  Masham,  &c.  P.  409, 
Sir  George  Talboys,  not  Tolboys.  P.  410,  W^m.  de  I^nvollie,  not  Lan- 
waller.  P.  411,  John  de  Lacie,  not  Facie.  P.  411.  The  descent  from 
Eustace  de  Vesci  to  Isabel  de  Vesci,  should  be:  Eustace  *  de  Vesci,  Wil- 
liam '  de  Vesci,  William  •  de  Vesci,  Isabel  •  de  V^esci. 


Neville  (Vol.  VI,  No.  4). 

In  Dr.  William  H.  Egle's  "Pennsylvania  Genealogies,"  are  these 
facts: 

General  John  Neville,  b.  July  26,  1721,  in  Virginia;  d.  luly  29,  1803,  on 
Montour's  Island,  Alleghany  county,  Penn.  He  was  the  son  of  George 
Neville  and  his  wife  Ann  Burroughs,  who  was  a  cousin  of  Lord  Fairfax. 

General  Neville  m.  August  24,  1754,  Winifred  Oldham,  b. ,  1736,  in 

Virginia;  d. ,  1797,  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.     She  was  descended  from  John 

Oldham,  who  emigrated  to  Virginia  from  England  in  March,  1635. 
Their  son  Thomas  Oldham,  of  Westmoreland  county,  Va.,  b.  1680;  d. 
1762;  m.  Elizabeth  Newton,  b.  1687;  d.  1759;  ^^^  their  son  John  Old- 
ham, b.  1705,  m.  Anne  Conway,  and  had:  Winifred,  ni.  John  Neville; 
Mary  Ann,  m.  Major  Abram  Kirkpatrick,  and  Colonel  William,  m. 
Penelope  Pope.  E. 

Editor  Virginia  Historical  Magazine  : 

On  page  432  of  your  April  number  I  notice  a  query  regarding  Gen- 
eral, or  more  properly  Colonel,  John  Neville  and  wife  Winifrede  Oldham. 
Mr.  Edward  Oldham,  1203  Massachusetts  Avenue,  East  Lincoln  Park, 


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Washington,  D.  C,  is  preparing  a  genealogy  of  the  Oldham  family  and 
can  probably  give  the  desired  data. 

My  notes  on  the  Oldham  family  were  largely  obtained  from  Miss  Idelle 
Keyes,  care  of  Paul  Caine,  of  this  city,  but  later  notes  have  not  been 
entered.  They  state  that  Colonel  Samuel  Oldham,  1680-1762,  married 
Elizabeth  Newton,  1687-1759,  lived  in  Westmoreland  count>\  Bishop 
Meade,  H,  151,  states  that  she  was  buried  at  Wilmington.  They  had 
several  children,  among  them  was  John  Oldham,  bom  1705,  and  who 
married  Anne  Conway,  and  had  eight  children:  i.  Captain  Conway  Old- 
ham, killed  at  Eutaw  Springs,  South  Carolina,  Septembers,  1781;  2.  a 
daughter  married  Lawrence  Ross,  of  Fauquier;  3.  a  daughter  married 
Mr.  Barton;  4.  a  daughter  married  Mr.  Rector;  5.  Winefrede  Oldham, 
bom  1736,  died  1797,  married  Colonel ^oTiii  Neville;  6.  Samuel  Oldham 
married  twice,  Jane  Cunningham  and  Ann  Lipscomb,  and  died  at  Ix>uis- 
ville,  Ky.,  1823;  7.  Mary  Ann  Oldham  married  Major  Abraham  Kirk- 
patrick;  8.  Lieutenant- Colonel  William  Oldham,  (bom  1745  according 
to  Miss  Keyes,  but  his  wife's  old  family  Bible,  which  is  still  in  the  family, 
says  June  17,  1753)  killed  at  St  Claire's  defeat  in  1791,  married  Penelope 
Pope. 

Under  the  head  of  Colonel  Neville  and  wife  Winifrede  Oldham  my 
notes  state:  Colonel  John  Neville  (also  called  General)  was  Colonel  of 
the  Second  or  Third  Virginia  Regiment  in  the  Revolution.  Was  Mar- 
shall of  the  District  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  Whiskey  Insurrection.  His 
home  was  bumed  by  a  mob  led  by  a  Breckenridge.  Both  Colonel  and 
Mrs  Neville  are  buried  in  the  old  Presbyterian  Church  yard  at  Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania.  Miss  Keyes  says,  "  I  think  there  is  a  connection  with  the 
Neville  family  farther  back  than  the  marriage  of  Winifrede  Oldham  with 
General,  or  rather  Colonel  Neville,  of  Pittsburg.  Presley,  as  a  given 
name,  occurs  in  the  Oldham  family  prior  to  the  time  of  marriage  of  Wini- 
frede and  John  Neville.  Presley  is  a  Neville  name,  as  Colonel  John 
Neville  had  a  brother  Presley,  and  John  Neville's  brother's  child  named 
one  of  her  children  Presley  Neville  Pepper — grandfather  of  Paul  Caine, 
my  brother-in-law.**  Colonel  John  and  Winifrede  (Oldham)  Neville  had 
but  two  children:  A  son,  Presley,  and  a  daughter  Amelia,  who  married 
Major  Isaac  Craig,  of  the  Revolution.  Miss  Keyes  claims  to  have  a 
complete  record  of  their  descendants. 

R.  C.  Ballard  Thruston, 
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Note. —It  was  expected  that  a  review,  by  a  distinguished  scholar,  of 
Dr.  B.  W.  Green's  "  Word-Book  of  Virginia  Folk-Speech,'*  would 
appear  in  this  number,  but  its  completion  was  unavoidably  postponed. 
It  will  be  printed  in  the  October  number. — Ed. 


The  Vestry  Book  and  Register  of  Bristol  Parish,  Virginia, 
1 720-1 789.  Transcribed  and  Published  by  Churchill  Gibson  Cham- 
berlayne.  Richmond,  Va.,  privately  printed  1898.  Wm.  Ellis  Jones, 
Printer.     Pp.  vii,  419. 

All  who  are  interested  in  the  history  of  local  institutions  of  Virginia, 
and  all  of  the  many  thousands  who  are  descended  from  the  persons 
whose  names  are  included  in  the  parish  register,  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude 
to  Mr.  Chamberlayne,  for  the  publication  of  tliis  book.  The  parish  was 
to  Virginia  what  the  township  was  to  the  New  England  colonies.  Not 
only  did  the  vestry  provide  for  matters  relating  to  religious  interests; 
but  they  cared  for  the  poor,  apprenticed  children,  kept  up  ferries,  pro- 
cessioned lands,  and  had  growing  tobacco  inspected.  All  of  the  details 
of  business  involved  in  the  various  functions  of  the  vestry  are  fully  set 
forth  in  the  vestry  book,  which  covers  the  period  1720- 1789. 

The  register  of  births  and  deaths  extends  from  1685  to  1798.  Among 
the  well  known  names  which  appear,  and  which  have  representatives  all 
over  the  United  States,  are  Archer,  Anderson,  Birchet,  Baugh,  Bott, 
Boiling,  Blick,  Bevell,  Bentley,  Banister,  Boisseau,  Bland,  Batte,  Broad- 
nax,  Booker,  Cureton,  Cox,  Chappell,  Clay,  Claiborne,  Cameron,  Call, 
Eppes,  Gower,  Green,  Gilliam,  Gill,  Gregory,  Hardaway,  Herbert, 
Harrison,  Hinton,  Hatcher,  Hamlin,  Jones,  Jordan,  Irby,  Kennon, 
Lanier,  May,  McMurdo,  Maitland,  Overby,  Peterson,  Pride,  Patillo,  Poy- 
thress,  Pegram,  Peebles,  Parham,  Royall,  Ragsdale,  Rowlett,  Robertson, 
Rives,  Sturdivant,  Stith,  Starke,  Short,  Scott,  Strachan,  Tucker, 
Thweatt,  Tatum,  Talley,  Talbot,  Traylor,  Wynn,  Worsham,  Walthall, 
Wyatt  and  very  many  others. 

The  volume  is  handsomely  printed  on  good  paper,  and  has  one  of  the 
very  best  indexes  ever  prepared.  The  value  of  a  book  like  this  is 
doubled  by  such  an  index. 

Mr.  Chamberlayne  has  made  a  real  addition  to  Virginia  historical 
literature. 


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WADDELL'S  HISTORY  OF  AUGUSTA  COUNTY,  VA. 


An  Additional  Chapter. 


We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Waddell  for  the  following  account  of  the 
manners  and  customs  of  the  Valley: 

How  THE  First  Settlers  of  the  Valley  Lived. 

It  is  strange  that  the  date  of  the  first  settlement  of  the  Valley  of  Vir- 
ginia, by  white  people,  is  not  certainly  known.  The  date  generally  given 
is  the  year  1732;  but  a  few  people  located  in  the  lower  Valley,  near  the 
Potomac,  and  others,  of  German  race  or  descent,  on  the  Shenandoah 
river,  near  Elkton,  some  years  earlier.  The  latter  came  from  Pennsyl- 
vania, about  1726,  and  all  that  is  known  of  them  is  derived  from  papers 
resurrected  and  published  in  the  Calendar  of  Virginia  State  Papers,  In 
1732,  William  Beverley  sought  to  obtain  a  patent  for  a  tract  of  land  em- 
bracing the  lands  occupied  by  the  people  referred  to,  and  they  addressed 
a  protest  to  the  General  Court.  From  the  fact  that  the  titles  to  various 
tracts  of  land  in  that  neighborhood  are  traceable  to  the  first  German 
settlers,  it  appears  that  they  were  not  disturbed  in  their  possession.  Mr. 
Beverley  afterwards  obtained  from  the  government  a  patent  for  an  im- 
mense domain  in  the  heart  of  the  present  county  of  Augusta. 

The  German  people,  none  of  whom  probably  could  speak  English, 
were  few  in  number,  and  located  off  the  track  of  the  Scotch-Irish  immi- 
gration which  set  in  about  the  year  1732.  At  that  time  the  upper  part  of 
the  Valley  was  entirely  uninhabited,  so  that  the  white  people  who  came 
did  not  dispossess  or  intrude  upon  any  aboriginal  occupants.  The  country 
abounded  in  game — bears,  deer,  wolves,  and  some  elks  and  buffaloes; 
and  for  some  years  after  the  arrival  of  white  people,  Indians,  on  hunting 
or  war  expeditions,  often  traversed  the  countr>'. 

The  first  settlers  made  their  way  through  the  wilderness  on  foot  or 
horseback,  from  across  the  Potomac  river.  Probably  a  few  cattle  were 
driven  along.  Sheep  and  hogs  were  afterwards  introduced.  The  dog 
followed  his  master,  of  course.  Ver>'  few  articles  of  household  furniture 
could  be  brought.  There  was  no  road,  and  no  wheeled  vehicle  could 
be  employed.  A  few  indispensable  articles  and  seed  corn  were  all  that 
could  be  transported. 

As  successive  parties  arrived  and  located  near  forests,  their  first  care 
was  to  provide  shelter  for  their  heads.  In  the  meanwhile,  they  were  ex- 
posed to  the  inclemency  of  the  weather.  For  a  year  or  more  they  must 
have  subsisted  on  wild  meat,  without  bread  or  any  substitute  for  it. 

In  the  absence  of  any  report  or  tradition  to  the  contrary,  it  is  inferred 
that  the  early  settlers  enjoyed  good  health,  notwithstanding  their  expos- 
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were  not  swept  off  by  pestilence  as  were  the  settlers  on  the  sea  coasts. 
Nor  did  the  people  suffer  from  want  of  food,  such  as  it  was.  While  the 
colonists  in  lower  Virginia  wasted  their  time  in  idleness,  or  in  futile 
search  for  gold,  the  sturdy  people  of  the  Valley  set  to  work  at  once  to 
cultivate  the  soil,  and  soon  had  "  bread  enough  and  to  spare." 

John  Lewis  had  a  mill  near  Staunton,  in  1751,  but  when  it  was  built 
we  do  not  know.  Until  it  began  to  grind  com,  hominy  was  doubtless 
the  staple  dish  of  the  people,  after  the  crops  were  matured. 

The  country  was  rapidly  settled.  Wave  after  wave  of  |>eople  came 
from  Pennsylvania;  few  or  none  from  east  of  the  Blue  Ridge  for  many 
years.  By  the  year  1742,  the  population  of  the  region  now  embraced  in 
the  counties  of  Augusta,  Rockbridge,  Rockingham  and  Bath,  was  about 
2,500.  There  is  no  record  of  the  birth  of  the  first  child  in  the  settle- 
ments, nor  of  the  first  death.  There  were  many  infants,  however,  be- 
fore the  year  1 740. 

The  public  buildings  of  ever>'  community  are  generally  superior  in  all 
respects  to  private  houses,  and  we  may  infer  what  was  the  character  of 
the  dwellings  of  early  settlers  from  the  description  of  the  first  courthouse 
of  Augusta  county.  The  house  was  built  in  1745,  by  Mr.  Beverley,  for 
the  use  of  the  county,  and  is  thus  described  in  a  presentment  of  the 
Grand  Jury,  on  May  21,  1748:  It  was  "thirty-eight  feet,  three  inches 
long,  and  eighteen  feet,  three  inches  wide  in  the  clear,  built  with  logs 
hewed  on  both  sides,  not  layed  close,  some  of  the  cracks  between  the 
logs  quite  open,  four  or  five  inches  wide  and  four  or  five  feet  long,  and 
some  stopped  with  chunks  and  clay,  but  not  quite  close;  two  small  holes 
cut  for  windows,  but  no  glass  nor  shutters  to  them;  the  inside  not  fur- 
nished, nor  fitting  for  his  Majesty's  Judicatory  to  sit." 

Nothing  is  said  about  floor  or  chimney,  and  we  are  left  to  infer  that 
the  floor  was  mother  earth,  and  that  the  room  was  not  warmed  at  all  in 
cold  weather.  The  first  meeting  houses  and  dwellings  were  no  doubt 
the  same  sort  of  structures — without  floors,  and  without  glass  in  **the 
holes  cut  for  windows."  The  County  Jail,  described  by  the  Grand  Jur>' 
at  the  same  time,  had  a  "chymney  that  was  formerly  built  in  a  ver>' 
poor  manner,  now  part  of  it  is  down,"  says  the  jury,  "so  that  there  is 
an  open  way  to  the  roof  which  a  man  might  easily  break  with  his  foot 
and  hands." 

A  new  courthouse,  built  of  stone,  was  finislied  m  1755,  and  stood  'till 
1836;  and  the  stone  church,  on  the  macadamized  turnpike,  eight  miles 
north  of  Staunton,  which  is  still  standing  and  used,  was  erected  in  the 
same  year,  or  a  little  before. 

There  were  no  roads  in  the  settlement  worth  speaking  of  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  they  were  scarcely  needed  in  the  absence  of  wagons 
and  carts.  The  first  attempts  at  roads  were  feeble  beginnings.  It  was 
only  sought  to  cut  away  trees  and  brush,  to  enable  riders  and  pack- 
horses  to  pass  along.     Until  December,  1745,  the  public  business  of  the 


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Valley  was  transacted  at  Orange  C.  H.,  and  we  find  from  the  records  of 
that  county,  that  on  November  27,  1742,  the  "  inhabitants  of  Borden's 
tract"  petitioned  for  a  road  to  Wood's  Gap  (now  called  Jarman's),  in 
the  Blue  Ridge,  and  the  court  ordered  that  the  road  be  *'  cleared  from 
James  Young's. through  Timber  Grove." 

The  most  unique  road-petition,  however,  is  that  of  Peter  SchoU  and 
others,  presented  to  Orange  Court,  February  23,  1 744.  They  lived  on 
Smith's  creek,  now  in  Rockingham  county,  and  petitioned  the  court, 
setting  forth  that  they  were  required  to  work  on  a  road  thirty  miles  from 
their  plantations,  and  praying  for  a  road  nearer  home.  Apparently, 
Peter  and  his  neighbors  had  no  use  for  a  road  near  them,  except  to  ren- 
der it  unnecessary  for  them  to  go  so  far  to  labor.  The  court  was  con- 
siderate enough  to  grant  the  petition. 

The  first  mention  of  a  road  extending  through  the  Valley,  is  on  Feb- 
ruary' 24,  1745,  when  James  Patton  and  John  Buchanan  reported  to 
Orange  Court  that  they  had  viewed  the  way  from  the  Frederick  county 
line,  '*  through  that  part  of  the  county  called  Augusta,  according  to  the 
order  made  last  March,"  and  the  court  ordered  "that  the  said  way  be 
established  a  public  road."  It  would  seem  fi-om  the  court  record  that 
nothing  was  done  except  to  view  the  route,  but  it  is  fair  to  presume  that 
in  due  time  the  inhabitants  were  required  to  *'  clear  the  track." 

There  being  no  roads  or  vehicles,  it  was  impossible  to  bring  many 
articles  of  household  furniture  from  abroad;  and  the  men.  who  might 
have  made  many  things,  were  too  busy  opening  up  their  farms  to  manu- 
facture anything  that  could  be  dispensed  with.  Consequently,  during 
the  first  fifteen  years  or  more,  the  dwellings  were  hardly  better  furnished 
than  the  wigwams  of  the  Indians. 

From  the  inventories  of  the  estates  of  persons  who  died,  after  the 
court  of  Augusta  county  was  opened,  in  1745,  we  learn,  to  some  extent, 
how  the  dwellings  were  equipped.  The  inventories  are  very  minute, 
embracing  many  articles  of  such  small  value  as  to  be  omitted  now-a- 
days.  The  values  are  stated  in  pounds,  shillings  and  pence,  Virginia 
currency;  but  we  give  them  here  in  dollars  and  cents. 

The  first  inventory  on  record,  is  that  of  Joseph  Martin's  estate — among 
other  property,  he  owned  a  mare,  saddle  and  bridle  appraised  at  I12.50, 
"  bed  and  bed-clothes  and  cross-cut  saw,"  worth  $10.83,  and  two  pocket 
knives  and  a  glass  bottle  put  at  twenty-five  cents. 

For  many  years  there  were  no  leather  beds;  but  pillows,  bolsters  and 
bed-ticking  were  appraised,  the  last  named  being  doubtless  filled  with 
straw  and  chaff,  after  the  crops  of  wheat  and  rye  came  in. 

The  next  decedent  was  Abraham  Strickler,  whose  estate  was  appraised 
April  19,  1746.  He  was  a  rich  man  for  the  time  and  country',  the  total 
valuation  being  $722.  He  left  twenty  cows  and  calves  appraised  at 
$3-33' J  each;  seven  cattle  three  years  old,  worth  I3.80  each;  11  hogs, 
|i.i62'3  each;  2  stills  and  implements,  |iro.oo;  sixty  gallons  of  liquor, 


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forty-two  cents  per  gallon;  four  cart  wheels  with  tire,  $13.33 '(;  wash 
tub,  fifty  cents;  twenty-five  deer  skins,  lir.so;  sixty-six  pounds  of  old 
brass,  I5.50;  best  bed  and  furniture,  $6.66*.^;  rifle  and  smooth-bore  guns 
and  bullet  moulds,  $ii.66^4',  '*all  Abraham's  wearing  clothes,"  $6.66^3. 

The  inventor>' embraces  plows,  hoes,  axes,  hay  forks,  scythes,  sickels, 
augers,  turner's  tools,  and  implements  for  rope  making.  As  far  as  ap- 
f)ears,  the  deceased  ouned  no  table,  chairs,  table  knives  and  forks, 
spoons,  glass  or  china  ware,  andirons,  shovel  and  tongs,  and  cooking 
utensils. 

The  mention  of  '*cart  wheels  with  tire'*  is  the  first  intimation  of  a 
wheel  vehicle  in  the  settlement.  This  decedent  and  another  are  the  only 
persons  who  left  stills.  There  is  nothing  to  show  that  malt  liquors  were 
made  or  drank.  No  loom  is  mentioned  in  any  inventory  of  the  period, 
although  coarse  cloth  was  no  donbt  woven  at  an  early  day;  but  the  looms 
were  probably  regarded  as  fixtures,  and  not  a  part  of  the  personal  estate, 
many  persons  had  wool  cords  and  spinning  weeels.  There  were  no 
pictures,  musical  instalments,  nor  cups  and  saucers.  If  anybody  had 
ouTied  and  left  a  Jew's  harp  it  would  have  been  appraised  and  inven- 
toried. Nearly  every  person  owned  horses,  cattle  and  Bibles.  In  1746, 
four  horses  were  appraised  at  133.33 'i,  an  average  of  1^.33 '3,  and  in  the 
same  year  "a  great  Bible"  was  appraised  at  I2.91.  The  Bible  was 
probably  old  and  worn,  and.  the  first  cost  was  no  doubt  much  more,  ap- 
proximating the  value  of  a  horse. 

We  might  infer  that  tables,  chairs,  &c.,  were  left  for  the  use  of  the 
families  of  decedents,  and  therefore  were  not  inventoried  and  appraised; 
but  as  other  articles  of  household  furniture  were  appraised,  and  no  in- 
ventory of  the  period  embraces  the  former,  we  must  conclude  that  they 
were  not  in  existence. 

John  Dobehin  owned  twelve  sheep  valued  at  83  cents  each.  The 
difficulty  of  protecting  sheep  from  wolves  made  them  cheap.  Robert 
Crockett  owned  two  work  oxen  worth  Ji8.33'3',  and  a  chest  of  drawers 
worth  $8.  ^3 '3,  but  no  table  or  chair.  The  wonder  is  how  the  chest  of 
drawers  got  here.  It  certainly  was  not  brought  from  abroad,  and  prob- 
ably it  was  made  by  John  Preston,  the  old  ship  carpenter,  who,  accord- 
ing to  tradition,  made  furniture  for  himself  and  others.  A  table 
elaborately  carved  by  him  was  long  preserved  by  his  decedents  as  a 
specimen  of  his  skill  and  industry.  But  it  is  strange  he  did  not  turn  out 
many  common  tables  and  chairs,  which  are  now  considered  indispensable 
by  civilized  people. 

George  Hays,  a  house-keef)er,  who  died  in  1747,  had  twelve  spoons, 
the  lot  valued  at  25  cents.  The  spoons  were  pewter,  of  course.  Many 
persons  had  spoon-moulds,  and  kept  pewter  on  hand  for  making  spoons 
and  plates. 

Abraham  Drake  left  an  unusual  quantity  of  wearing  apparel.    He  had 


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two  coats,  five  vests,  three  pair  of  breeches,  two  pair  of  drawers,  a  hat, 
and  twelve  shirts. 

Joseph  Watson,  who  died  in  1747,  had  dishes  and  spoons  worth  50 
cents,  and  knives  and  forks  worth  58  cents.  These  are  the  first  knives 
and  forks  we  find  mentioned. 

Samuel  Cunningham  had  half  a  dozen  knives  and  forks,  five  pair  of 
scissors,  s4^^en  clasp  knives,  nineteen  spoons,  and  four  pewter  dishes. 

Next  we  have  the  inventory  of  the  wearing  apparel  of  two  spinsters, 
Frances  and  Janet  Hutchinson,  who  died  in  1748.  Their  wardrobe  con- 
sisted of  eight  petticoats,  six  gowns,  two  jackets,  two  short  cloaks,  four 
old  fine  shifts,  fourteen  old  coarse  shifts,  two  silk  handkerchiefs,  three 
hoods,  shoes  and  stockings,  and  •*  old  clothes  and  trumpetry  "  valued  at 
16^^  cents.  They  also  had  five  coarse  sheets,  five  blankets,  a  rug,  bol- 
ster and  bedtick,  basin,  porrigers  and  wooden  ware. 

Robert  Wilson,  the  owner  of  many  cattle  and  some  farming  imple- 
ments, left  a  pair  of  boots  and  a  pair  of  shoes,  each  pair  valued  at  66^3 
cents.     He  had  bed  clothes  appraised  at  $10.00. 

At  last  we  find  a  man,  Ludorick  Freedly,  who  owned  a  wagon,  which 
was  valued  at  I5.00.  This  was  in  1749,  seventeen  years  after  the  settle- 
ment in  the  county. 

Patrick  Cook  was  a  high  liver  for  the  time.  He  left,  in  1749,  a  stool, 
seven  chairs,  a  wig,  two  table  cloths,  a  table  (the  first  on  record),  three 
beds  and  bed  clothes,  a  looking-glass  (the  first)  worth  162/j  cents,  wooden 
trenchers  and  dishes,  and  one  knife  and  two  forks  worth  8'^'  cents. 

The  first  slave  owner  appears  in  1749.  James  Coburn  owned  a  negro 
man  appraised  at  I66.6624,  and  a  negro  woman  worth  $110.00.  He  also 
had  pewter  dishes,  plates  and  spoons,  an  "iron-shod  wagon"  worth 
123.33'/^,  and  bed,  bedding  and  bolster  worth  I4.1624.  He  was  a  rich 
man,  however,  his  personal  estate  amounting  to  $1,122. 

Matthew  Skeen  owned  a  feather  bed  and  bed  clothes  worth  $5.50;  and 
Alick  Evans,  besides  three  sheep,  owned  thirty-one  books. 

Martin  Kauffman  was  of  a  literary  turn,  but  probably  kept  books  for 
sale.  His  library  consisted  of  four  Bibles,  two  Testaments,  eight  hymn 
and  psalm  books,  ten  small  books  called  "  Golden  Apples,"  and  sundry 
other  small  books.  He  had  also  a  "house  clock,"  valued  at  |i6.66%, 
ten  stocks  of  bees,  a  wagon,  much  live  stock,  tools  and  implements,  but 
very  little  household  furniture.     His  personal  estate  was  appraised  at 

$777.90- 

The  first  rector  of  Augusta  Parish  was  the  Rev.  John  Hindman.  He 
came  from  the  north  of  Virginia,  as  a  Presbyterian  evangelist,  and 
located  first  at  Rockfish,  across  the  Blue  Ridge.  The  Rev.  John  Craig 
alludes  to  him  snappishly  in  his  diary,  under  date  of  April  5,  1747,  thus: 

"This  day  John  Hindman  attend ,  having  turned  his  coat  and  now 

appearing  in  the  quality  of  a  Church  of  England  parson."  Without 
Episcopal  ordination,  he  was  inducted  as  rector,  April  6,  1747,  on  the 


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recommendation  of  the  Governor  of  the  Colony.  He  died  in  1749, 
leaving  the  following  estate:  Nine  horses,  a  book  of  Common  Prayer, 
fifteen  volumes  of  sermons,  two  minister's  go  whs,  five  wigs,  and  two 
shirts  and  a  wallet  valued  at  fifty  cents. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  poor  gentleman  had  at  least  one  suit  of 
clothes,  in  which  very  likely  he  was  buried.  The  horses  probably  indi- 
cated the  rector's  savings  out  of  his  meagre  salary  of  /"50,  or  |r66.66^/3 
a  year.  There  were  no  public  funds  in  which  spare  cash  could  be  in- 
vested, nor  banks  in  which  it  could  be  deposited  for  safe  keeping,  a 
horse  or  two  could,  in  emergency,  be  sent  through  a  gap  in  the  Blue 
Ridge,  to  lower  Virginia,  and  converted  into  money.  But  the  Parish 
was  a  large  one,  and  the  rector  probably  needed  more  than  one  horse 
to  go  his  rounds.  One  of  his  successors,  after  the  settlements  were  ex- 
tended, had  to  go  as  far  as  Pittsburg  which  was  included  in  the  Parish. 
Did  the  rector,  however,  have  no  saddle  and  bridle,  hat  or  boots  ? 

John  Moffett,  father  of  Colonel  George  Moffett,  a  very  prominent  man 
in  his  day,  and  whose  descendants  are  numerous,  left  home  in  1742  or 
thereabout,  to  go  to  North  Carolina,  and  was  never  heard  of  afterwards. 
In  1749  his  death  at  the  hands  of  Indians  being  presumed,  his  personal 
estate  was  appraised.  He  had  many  horses,  two  beds  and  bed  clothes 
worth  I5.00,  six  knives  and  forks,  and  a  Bible,  and  two  small  books 
worth  fo.co. 

We  may  add  that  John  Moffett's  widow  married  John  Trimble,  who 
was  killed  by  Indians  in  1764,  when  his  son  James  and  others  were  cap- 
tured and  carried  off.  Trimble's  step-son  George  Moffett,  raised  a  party 
and  pursuing  the  Indians  on  their  retreat,  overtook  them  and  rescued 
the  captives.  Ten  years  afterwards,  James  Trimble  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Point  Pleasant.  During  the  Revolutionary  war  he  commanded 
a  company  and  had  Jacob  Warrick  as  his  lieutenant.  Soon  after  the 
war,  he,  with  many  other  Augusta  people,  emigrated  to  Kentucky.  His 
oldest  son,  Allen  Trimble,  became  governor  of  Ohio,  and  another  son  a 
member  of  the  United  States  Senate. 

In  1749.  Peter  Kinder  had  two  chairs. 

Samuel  Scott  owned  four  slaves  valued  at  f  283.33 '3 ;  spoons,  noggins, 
trenchers,  &c.,  $1.66^3;  two  pair  of  breeches  $1.66^3;  no  table  or  chairs. 

James  Sheilds,  who  died  in  1750,  had,  among  other  things,  a  knife  and 
fork  valued  at  twenty  one  cents.. 

Matthew  Sharpe  owned  a  wagon,  twenty-one  sheep,  nine  bee  hives,  &c. 

Michael  Rinhart,  left,  among  other  things,  "a  pair  of  old  schlippers," 
worth  8!3  cents. 

After  1 75 1,  wagons  were  quite  numerous.  One  man  who  died  in  that 
year,  had  a  nurser>'  of  apple  trees,  valued,  however,  at  only  |2.66^i. 

Colonel  James  Patton,  the  nabob  of  the  settlement,  was  killed  by  In- 
dians in  1755,  but  his  i>ersonal  estate  was  not  appraised 'till  1758.  In 
the  list  we  find  the  first  mention  of  silver  spoons,  but  only  three.     The 


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Other  articles,  in  addition  to  many  bonds,  are  twelve  chairs,  two  tables, 
a  looking  glass,  three  cups  and  saucers,  the  best  bed  and  furniture 
C|i6.66% )  and  four  holland  shirts. 

Soon  after  the  court  of  Augusta  .county  was  opened,  in  1745,  Robert 
McClanahan  obtained  license  to  keep  an  ordinary.  His  log  cabin  hostelry 
was  across  the  street  from  the  courthouse.  We  may  imagine  the  scene 
in  the  dining  room  on  a  court  day.  The  dinner  table  was  spread  in  the 
big  room,  and  was  composed  of  several  split  logs  put  together,  and  the 
guests  sat  on  benches  constructed  in  like  manner.  The  food  was  brought 
to  the  table  in  pewter  or  wooden  platters,  and  consisted  probably  of 
beef,  certainly  of  pork  and  venison,  and  possibly  of  bear  meet;  with 
cabbage,  potatoes  and  turnips,  one  or  all.  If  Colonel  Lewis's  mill  was 
then  grinding,  corn  dodgers  were  supplied  for  bread,  otherwise  there 
was  only  hominy;  no  knives  and  forks  were  furnished,  but  each  gent 
whipped  out  his  jack  knife  and  helped  himself  as  best  he  could,  fingers 
being  freely  used.  The  charge  for  the  meal,  as  fixed  by  the  court,  was 
I2>^  cents,  coffee  was  not  known,  but  liquors  of  several  kinds  were  at 
hand,  and  at  surprisingly  low  prices,  according  to  the  established  rates — 
rum  1 1. 50  per  gallon,  whiskey  |i.oo  per  gallon,  and  claret  83?^  cents 
per  quart,  whatever  else  the  people  did  without,  they  managed  by  some 
means  to  obtain  liquors;  such  is  the  native  depravity  of  man  !  But  as 
far  as  we  know,  intemperance  was  not  prevalent. 

It  was  not  'till  after  the  Revolution  that  coffee  was  commonly  used; 
when  tea  was  first  introduced,  the  people  were  puzzled  as  to  its  prepara- 
tion. An  old  lady,  however,  stated  that  she  drank  the  broth  and  her 
husband  ate  the  greens. 

It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  purchasing  power  of  money  in 
1740-50,  was  much  greater  than  at  present,  so  that  an  article  then  apraised 
at  $1.00,  would  now  be  valued  at  probably  $2.00  or  more.  There  was, 
of  course,  little  money  in  the  Valley  during  the  period  referred  to,  and 
its  value  was  in  the  inverse  ratio  of  its  quantity;  the  less  there  was,  the 
more  valuable  it  was  esteemed.  The  people  could  have  had  nothing  to 
sell  abroad  for  money,  except  deer  and  elk  skins,  and  horses  and  cattle 
which  could  be  driven  on  foot  to  market. 

Jos.  A.  Waddell. 

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CONTENTS. 

1.  Reminiscetises  of  Western  Virginia,  1770-1790,  113 

2.  Virginia  in  1624-25 129 

3.  Answer  of  Governor  Yeardley  to  Capt.  Martin's 

Charges,  &c 136 

4.  Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revolution 146 

5.  Papers  Relating  to  the  Administration  of  Gov. 

Nicholson  and  to  the  Founding  of  William 

and  Mary  College 153 

6.  Virginia  Game  and  Field  Sports  in  1739 172 

7.  Letters  of  Washington 175 

8.  A  Service  of  Plate,  1794 186 

9.  Sainsburj's  Abstracts,  by  Alexander   Brown,  • 

LL.D 187 

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11.  Genealogy 196 

Fitzhugh  (illustrated),  Payne,  Foote,  Rodes,  Pry  or,  and 
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12.  Notes  and  Queries 210 

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REMINISCENCES  OF  WESTERN  VIRGINIA, 
1770-1790. 


By  John  Redd,  Henry  county,  Va. 


(continued.) 

[As  stated  in  the  introduction  to  these  reminiscences,  this 
paper  by  Major  John  Redd,  is  in  two  parts,  sheets  roughly 
stitched  together.  The  second  part,  which  is  begun  in  this 
number,  consists  of  his  recollections  of  the  prominent  men  of 
the  Western  frontier  of  Virginia  and  North  Carolina.  A  num- 
ber of  pages  are  missing,  the  remaining  account  beginning  with 
what  is  evidently  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  General  Joseph  Martin. 
It  is  probable  that  the  missing  pages  will  be  recovered,  and  if 
so,  will  be  published  in  a  future  Magazine.] 


but  all  to  no  purpose.  Burns  and  Barker  were  carried  of  and 
put  under  guard,  by  this  time  the  circumstances  connected  with 
their  case  was  noised  throughout  the  army  and  the  feelings  of 
almost  the  entire  army  was  enlisted  in  their  behalf.  As  soon  as 
Burns  and  Barker  were  put  under  guard,  Capt.  Martain  returned 
to  his  tent,  remained  there  a  few  minutes,  and  then  took  his 
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low  him,  &  said  to  the  guard  that  he  would  stand  between  them 
and  all  damages,  and  carried  his  two  soldiers  back  to  his  tent, 
and  that  was  the  last  of  the  affair.  No  other  notice  was  taken 
of  Burns  and  Barker  by  Col.  Cristian,  Capt.  Martain's  forcibly 
taking  his  men  from  under  guard  produced  a  coolness  between 
him  and  Col.  Cristian  which  lasted  as  long  as  Martain  remained 
with  Cristian.  I  do  not  recolleck  of  their  speaking  or  even 
nodding  as  long  as  they  were  together,  this  was  truly  to  be  re- 
gretted for  before  they  were  vary  intimate.  The  next  morning 
the  army  set  out  for  the  Indian  towns  on  the  oposit  side  of 
the  tennssee  river,  when  we  arrived  there,  the  Indians  had  all 
left  their  towns  and  carried  with  them  all  of  their  cattle  and 
horses.  Col.  Cristian  had  learnt  from  the  traders  that  seven  of 
the  eleven  towns  had  declared  in  favor  of  war,  thes  seven  towns 
were  burnt  to  the  ground,  the  other  four  towns  which  were  op- 
posed to  declaring  war  was  left  unhurt.  After  wee  had  remained 
here  some  five  or  six  days  a  noted  Indian  chief,  Little  Carpenter, 
came  in  with  a  white  flag  and  informed  Col.  Cristian  ^  ^  ^ 
of  war  and  wanted  peace.  This  Indian  was  a  man  of  fine 
sense,  had  been  to  England  some  years  before,  and  could  speak 
English  with  as  mutch  fluency  as  any  of  us.  Little  Carpenter 
informed  Colonel  Cristian  that  the  Indians  had  gone  a  great 
ways  off  and  the  nearest  Indian  to  him  was  at  hiwasse  River, 
about  fifty  miles  off.  Col.  Cristian  not  knowing  but  what  the 
Indians  were  trying  to  play  some  trick  on  him  Informed  the 
cheaf  that  as  an  evidence  of  his  sincerity  that  he  must  let  two 
traders  accompany  him  back  to  his  Nation  and  in  five  or  six 
days  he  was  to  return  with  the  traders  and  bring  with  him  some 
more  of  his  cheafs.  Little  Carpenter  returned  at  the  appointed 
time  accompanied  by  the  traders  and  two  cheafs.  Col.  Chris- 
tian and  the  three  Indian  Cheafs  agreeing  that  these  three  cheafs 
were  to  return  to  their  tribe  accompanied  by  several  traders  and 
bring  in  a  sufiicient  number  of  their  hed  men  to  represent  the 
whole  nation.  The  Indians  departed,  promising  to  return  in  a 
sertain  number  of  days.  At  the  appointed  time  Little  Carpen- 
ter with  five  or  six  cheafs  came  in.  Col.  Cristian  after  being 
assured  that  the  tribe  was  fully  represented,  agreed  that  the  In- 
dians were  to  return  accompanied  by  some  traders  and  send 
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the  cheafs  were  to  remain  as  hostages  until  peace  was  finally 
concluded.  Col.  Christian  with  the  army  was  to  retire  back  to 
the  long  island  of  holstein.  The  Indians  had  the  privilege  of 
returning  to  their  towns  *  *  *  arrived  there  they  were  to 
dispatch  one  of  the  traders  to  Col.  Crist ian  who  was  to  send  a 
guard  and  meet  them  at  the  french  broad  river  and  escort  them 
to  the  Long  Island  of  holstein  where  they  were  to  be  fed, 
until  the  final  ratification  of  peace.  In  a  few  days  after  this 
agreement  with  the  Indians,  Col.  Christian  gave  orders  for  the 
army  to  return  back  to  the  holston.  Capt.  Martain  sent  his 
brother  Brice  to  Col.  Cristian  to  inform  him  that  he  had  six  men 
on  the  sick  list,  one  had  died  the  day  before,  and  it  was  impos- 
sible for  him  with  the  number  of  horses  assigned  to  him,  to  carry 
his  sick  men  with  their  baggage  and  the  13  large  camp  ovens, 
he  wished  he  wauld  either  furnish  him  with  an  additional  number 
of  horses  or  have  the  ovens  carried  by  some  other  conveyance. 
Col.  Christian  sent  him  word  back  that  he  had  no  more  horses 
to  spare,  and  that  if  he  did  not  carry  the  ovens  he  should  pay 
for  every  one  he  left  behind.  Capt.  Martain  determined  that 
his  sick  should  be  provided  for  even  at  the  risk  of  his  own 
purse,  had  eleven  of  the  ovens  carried  and  thrown  into  a  deep 
hole  in  the  river,  put  his  sick  men  on  the  horses  and  set  out  with 
the  rest  of  the  army  for  the  holston.  When  we  arrived  at  the 
holston,  Col.  Cristian  reorganized  the  army  and  six  hundred 
men  were  retained  at  the  long  island.  Capt.  Martain  with 
eighty  men  were  ordered  to  the  ricove  fort  about  50  miles  from 
the  North  fork  of  Clinch,  the  balance  of  the  army  were  dis- 
charged. Capt.  Martain  immediately  set  out  for  the  ricove.  At 
this  place  a  man  by  the  name  of  Isaac  Chrisman  had  built  a  fort 
some  time  before  and  while  we  were  gone  to  the  Indian  towns, 
Chrisman  and  two  of  his  family  were  murdered  by  the  Indians. 
I  did  not  accompany  Capt.  Martain  on  this  expedition  for  I  was 
appointed  Sargent  Major  by  Col.  Cristian  &  remained  at  the 
Long  isleand  while  Capt.  Martain  was  on  his  way  to  the  ricove; 
he  had  to  pass  through  a  vary  dangerous  gap  called  little  Mock- 
eson,  at  this  place  the  trail  went  through  a  vary  narrow  Sc  deep 
gorge  in  the  Mountain,  at  this  gap  the  Indians  had  killed  a  great 
many  whites.  As  Capt.  Martain  passed  through  the  gap,  he 
had  his  men  in  fine  order  and  strung  out  in  single  file,     just  as 


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the  head  of  the  Collum  emmerged  from  the  narrow  defile  the 
whole  Collum  was  fired  on  by  the  Indians  from  the  top  of  the 
Ridge,  the  Indians  were  strung  out  on  the  ridge  in  a  Collum  as 
long  as  Capt.  Martains.  As  soon  as  the  Indians  fired  they  all 
ran  off,  they  killed  non  of  Martain's  men,  and  onely  wounded 
one  man  by  the  name  of  James  Bunch  who  had  five  balls  shot 
through  the  flesh.  Capt.  Martain  finding  that  the  Indians  had 
all  fled  proceeded  on  his  way  to  the  ricove  unmolested  by  In- 
dians. Capt.  Martain  remained  here  untill  about  the  first  of 
May,  at  which  time  his  company  was  ordered  back  t6  the  Long 
Isleand  at  which  place  he  remained  until  the  first  of  July,  1777, 
when  the  treaty  of  peace*  was  finally  concluded  between  the 
Indians  and  Whites. 

As  soon  as  peace  was  concluded  the  army  was  disbanded. 
After  the  treaty  of  July.  1777,  Capt.  Martain  received  the  ap- 
pointment of  Indian  Agent  for  the  Cherokee  nation.  Soon  after 
he  received  the  appointment  he  proceeded  to  build  a  large  store 
house  in  the  Isleand  for  the  purpose  of  deposeting  sutch  goods 
as  the  government  might  send  out  for  the  Indians,  he  soon 
came  in  and  gave  me  a  draft  he  had  received  from  the  govern- 
ment on  a  house  in  Charleston,  S.  Carolina,  for  a  large  quantity 
of  Indian  goods.  I  went  to  Charlston,  purchased  the  goods  and 
handed  them  over  to  Cap.  Martain.  he  remained  at  the  Long 
Isleand  as  Indian  Agent  untill  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  at  which  time  the  agency  expired  and  Capt.  Martain  re- 
turned home  to  live. 

About  two  years  before  his  agency  expired  his  wife  died, 
shortly  after  his  return  home  he  went  to  Georgia  and  purchased 
land  on  tugalo  river,  returned  here  and  married  the  seckond 
time  to  a  Miss  Susan  Graves.  A  fiew  months  after  his  second 
marriage  he  went  to  the  West  for  the  purpose  of  closing  up  all 
his  unsettled  buisness  left  there.  After  remaining  in  the  West 
some  fiew  months  he  again  returned  home.  On  Capt.  Martain's 
arrival  at  home  his  wife  informed  that  her  Brother  John  Graves 
had  during  his  absence  bin  vary  unkind  to  her  and  had  treated 
her  vary  rudely,  the  next  morning  Capt.  Martain  sent  me  for 
Graves.  When  Graves  arrived  several  of  Martain's  neighbors 
had  called  in  to  see  him ;  he  informed  Graves  that  he  had  treated 
his  wife  vary  little  like  a  Sister  during  his  absence,  that  for  his 


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conduct  he  deserved  a  good  whipping,  but  he  should  look  over 
the  offence  for  that  time,  but  if  he  ever  repeted  it  he  would  treat 
him  as  he  deserved.  At  this  Graves  left  Capt.  Martain  in  a  vio- 
lent rage.  During  the  evening  Capt.  Martain  received  a  note 
from  Graves  informing  him  that  he  had  been  Grosely  insulted 
and  that  no  appology  that  he  could  make  would  be  sufficient  to 
attone  for  the  insult,  that  if  Martain  was  a  man  of  bravery  he 
must  meet  him  the  next  morning  at  an  old  field  about  one  mile 
off  and  decide  the  affair  at  the  mouth  of  their  pistols.  Captain 
Martain  after  reading  the  note  put  it  in  his  pocket  and  said  noth- 
ing to  Mrs.  Martain  or  any  other  person  about  it.  The  next 
morning  about  ten  o'clock  Capt.  Martain  repaired  to  the  field  of 
battle  without  any  person  with  him.  When  he  arrived  at  the 
field  John  Graves  with  his  three  seckonds  had  already  arrived 
and  were  waiting  for  him.  Graves*  Father  was  about  fifty  yards 
off  sitting  on  his  horse  vary  pationately  waiting  to  see  the  duel 
come  off.  As  soon  as  Martain  arrived  he  walked  up  to  John 
Graves,  pulled  out  the  challenge  an  asked  him  if  he  wrote  it. 
Upon  Graves  answering  that  he  was  the  Author,  Martain  knocked 
him  down  with  his  fist,  gave  him  two  or  three  kicks,  whereupon 
old  Graves  put  spurs  to  his  horse  and  cleared  out,  the  three 
seconds  ran  off,  and  as  soon  as  John  could  get  up  he  put  off  at 
the  top  of  his  speed  and  left  Martain  by  himself.  Master  of  the 
Field. 

Shortly  after  this  Captain  Martain  went  a  seckond  time  to 
Georgia  and  sold  all  the  land  he  had  purchased  out  there,  re- 
turned home  after  a  month  or  two. 

In  the  year  1789,  '90,  &  '91  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature 
of  Va.  In  the  year  1792  I  served  with  him  in  the  Legislature. 
In  the  year  1795  &  '96  I  did  not  offer  my  services  but  Capt.  M. 
was  elected  both  of  those  years.  In  the  year  1 797-' 98-' 99  I 
served  again  with  him  in  the  Legislature.  I  declined  offering 
my  services  any  more.  Capt.  Martain  was  elected  several  years 
afterwards  and  in  feet  he  was  elected  whenever  he  offered  his 
servises.  I  omitted  to  mention  that  we  both  voted  for  the  fa- 
mous Va.  resolution  of  *98.  '99.  During  my  services  in  the 
legislature  (I  do  not  reckolect  the  precise  year)  a  vacancy  oc- 
curred for  Brig;adier  General.  Capt.  Martain  was  a  candidate 
for  the  office,  his  opponent  was  a  Mr.  Mat.  Clay.*     Clay  was  a 


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man  of  high  standing  and  a  considerable  debater  in  the  Legis- 
lature and  had  been  a  member  of  Congress.  When  the  election 
came  off  Martain  was  elected  by  a  vary  handsome  majority. 
About  the  time  that  Capt.  Martain  was  appointed  General  by  the 
legislature  of  Va.,  in  company  with  Gen.  Peter  Johnson,*  Chan- 
selor  Cread  Taylor/  to  meet  with  three  commis.  appointed  by 
the  State  of  North  Carolina  to  extend  the  line  between  N.  C.  & 
Va.  to  the  Cumberland  Mountains.  Gen.  Martain  &  the  Com- 
mishiners  met  those  on  the  part  of  N.  C.  and  ran  the  line  vary 
mutch  to  the  satisfaction  of  their  respective  States.  The  line 
the  commishioners  ran  comerd  in  the  old  Cumberland  Gap  on  a 
tree  which  Kentucky  cornered  on,  which  tree  was  the  corner 
tree  of  Kentucky,  North  Carolina  and  Virginia.  When  Gen. 
Martain  declined  representing  his  conty  in  the  legislature  he  sold 
out  all  his  possessions  on  Smith's  river  and  removed  to  lether 
ere  in  the  same  Conty,  fixed  himself  comfortably,  and  remained 
there  as  long  as  he  lived,  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 

George  Rogers  Clark. 

My  first  acquaintance  with  Gen.  Clarke  was  in  June,  1776,  at 
Mumpses  fort,  in  Powels  valley.  Gen.  Clarke  informed  me  that 
he  had  just  come  from  Kentucky  through  the  wilderness  and  did 
not  travel  on  any  part  of  the  trace  for  fear  of  the  Indians,  he 
had  onely  one  companion,  a  man  by  the  name  of  Rice.  The 
morning  after  Clark's  arrival  at  Mumps's  Fort  I  sat  out  with  him 
for  settlement,  we  traveled  together  about  150  mile  when  we 
separated.  I  found  Clark  to  be  one  of  the  most  pleasant  & 
agreable  men  I  had  met  with  for  some  time.  After  parting  with 
him  I  never  saw  him  any  more. 

Col.  Daniel  Boon. 

In  the  fall  of  1775,  or  the  Spring  of  1776,  Col.  Boon*  passed 
by  Martains'  station  on  his  way  into  North  Carolina  from  Ken- 
tucky, he  had  onely  one  companion  with  him  (I  think  his  brother 
Squire)  he  spent  one  night  at  the  Station.  Some  years  after  this 
I  saw  Col.  Boon  in  Richmond,  he  was  at  that  time  a  member  of 
the  Legislature  of  \'a.  I  think  it  must  be  a  mistake  about 
Boon's  being  a  member  of  the  legislature  when  Tarlton  drove 


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them  from  Charlottesville  and  his  being  taken  prisoner.  I  never 
heard  anything  of  Boon's  defeat  by  the  Indians  in  Powel's  Val- 
ley, in  1773,  I  think  this  must  be  a  mistake,  for  I  am  satisfied 
that  if  an  occurence  of  that  kind  had  of  happened  I  should  of 
heard  something  of,  for  I  went  to  the  valley  in  the  first  of  June, 

1775. 

The  Cambels'.* 

I  know  nothing  of  the  service  of  Arthur  Cambel.  I  became 
acquainted  with  Col.  Wm.  Cambel,  in  the  year  1774,  on  my  way 
to  Powels  valley,  he  came  out  to  the  valley  in  the  next  Spring 
in  pursuit  of  a  man  by  the  name  of  Lewis,  who  had  run  with  a 
part  of  his  horses,  Campbell  overtook  Lewis  near  the  station, 
recovered  his  horses  and  left  in  a  day  or  two.  Col.  Wm.  Cam- 
bell,  in  1774,  lived  on  the  holston  river,  some  fifteen  or  20  miles 
East  of  where  Abingdon  is  now.  Col.  Cambell  was  considered 
one  of  the  most  prominent  bolder  leaders  in  that  region,  he  was 
not  onely  regarded  as  an  officer  of  the  highest  order  of  Millitary 
tallents,  but  he  was  considered  a  man  of  the  vary  first  order  of 
intellect  and  a  perfect  gentleman,  in  every  sense  of  the  word. 

I  will  now  give  you  some  few  incidents  in  the  life  of  Col.  Wm. 
Camell,  (i)  you  may  have  heard  of  these  circumstances  in  his 
life  long  before  this,  but  as  you  incist  that  I  will  tell  you  I  will 
do  so,  all  though  it  may  be  of  no  other  service  than  to  refresh 
your  memory  a  litde.  In  the  early  part  of  the  Revolutionary 
War  Col.  Cambell  was  returning  home  from  Preaching  in  com- 
pany with  his  wife  and  two  or  three  gentlemen,  when  he  had 
gotten  within  some  few  miles  of  home  he  discovered  a  man 
walking  with  a  little  bundle  on  a  stick  thrown  across  his  shoulder, 
when  the  man  got  within  some  hundred  and  Mty  yards  of  Cam- 
bell he  turned  obliquely  off  from  the  road,  as  soon  as  Cambell 
discovered  this  he  turned  from  the  road  in  a  direction  to  inter- 
cept him.  When  the  man  discovered  that  he  was  about  to  be 
intercepted  by  Cambell  &  his  companions  he  broke  and  ran  with 
all  his  might  towards  the  river,  the  pursuers  galloped  after  him 
and  as  there  was  no  ford  there  thev  jumped  off  of  their  horses 
and  ran  across  the  river  and  overtook  their  game  in  an  ivy  cleft. 
They  carried  him  back  to  the  road,  when  they  got  back  several 
other  men  fell  in  company  with  them,  the  spy  as  I  will  now  call 
the  man  was  dressed  vary  shabbily,  Col.  Cambell  asked  him  why 


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he  turned  from  the  road,  the  spy  appeared  vary  silly  and  made 
some  flimsy  excuse,  Cambell  propounded  a  great  many  other 
questions  to  him,  the  fellow  pretended  to  have  vary  little  sence 
and  said  that  he  was  a  vary  poor  man  and  was  going  to  the  back 
settlement  where  there  was  a  plenty  of  land,  from  the  many 
questions  Cambell  had  proposed  to  the  spy  he  became  perfectly 
satisfied  that  he  was  a  man  of  fine  sense  under  the  disguise  of  a 
fool,  Cambell  informed  him  that  he  believed  him  to  be  a  man 
engaged  in  some  vile  service  and  he  must  be  searched,  to  which 
the  spy  had  no  objection;  his  bundle  was  searched  in  which  was 
found  nothing  but  some  old  clothes,  Cambell  informed  him  he 
must  pull  off"  all  the  clothes  he  had  on  and  put  on  the  suit  he  had 
in  his  bundle,  in  his  pocket  they  found  a  pass  &  some  other  old 
papers,  all  badly  written,  every  part  of  his  clothing  was  examined 
vary  minutely  but  nothing  could  be  found.  Cambell  remarked 
to  the  spy  that  he  had  a  vary  good  pair  of  shoes  &  he  believed 
he  would  examine  them,  he  took  out  his  pocket  knife  and  ripped 
off  the  bottom  souls  of  his  shoes  and  under  each  of  them  he 
found  a  letter  written  bv  the  British  Commander,  addressed  to 
the  King  of  the  Cherokee  Indians,  the  letters  were  written  on 
vary  fine  paper  and  invelloped  in  bladder  so  as  to  render  them 
water  proof,  the  Indians  were  informed  that  the  whites  had  rebeld 
against  their  King,  that  a  large  army  had  been  sent  against  them 
which  would  in  a  short  time  subjue  them,  the  Indians  were  ex- 
horted to  send  their  warriors  in  every  direction  and  harras  the 
whites  as  much  as  possible,  they  were  reminded  of  the  injuries 
they  had  received  irom  the  Whites  and  that  as  soon  as  the  rebles 
were  subjued  they  should  be  amply  remunerated  all  the  land  and 
lawses  they  had  sustained  from  them,  the  letter  wound  up  by 
reckommending  the  bearer,  his  name  I  have  forgotten,  to  the 
King  as  a  man  of  sence  and  honesty,  and  as  one  in  whose  coun- 
sels they  should  place  implicite  confidence.  After  the  letters 
were  read  a  council  was  held  and  it  was  unanimously  agreed  that 
the  spy  must  be  hanged.  Col.  Cambell  informed  the  spy  that 
he  had  but  a  short  time  to  live  and  he  had  as  well  make  a  full 
and  candid  confeshion  of  everything  connected  with  his  trip,  the 
spy  said  that  he  had  been  promised  by  the  British  Commander, 
a  large  sum  of  money  to  carry  these  letters  to  the  Indians  and 
to  incite  them  to  do  all  the  mischief  they  could  possibly  accom- 


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plish,  soon  after  this  confeshion  the  spy  was  taken  by  Cambell 
and  his  companions  and  swung  to  a  limb. 

Col.  Cambell  was  in  the  battle  of  King's  mountain  and  ackted 
quite  a  conspickuous  part,  as  I  learnt  after  the  battle  from  men 
who  were  there  This  battle  I  regard  as  one  of  the  most  re- 
marckable  that  was  fought  during  the  revolutionary  War.  Fur- 
gason  the  British  Commander  was  marching  through  South 
Carolina  driving  almost  every  thing  before  him,  his  command 
concisted  of  a  good  many  hundred  Brittish  soldiers  and  a  great 
many  Tories.  Col.  Cambell,  Isaack  Shelby,  Col.  Benj.  Cleave- 
land  &  some  other  prominent  leaders  determined  that  they  would 
arest  his  course,  accordingly  men  were  dispatched  in  every 
direction  informing  the  Whigs  of  Furgason's  movement  and  that 
an  effort  was  about  to  be  made  to  raise  a  number  of  men  to  meet 
him  &  give  him  battle.  In  a  vary  short  time  an  army  of  some- 
thing like  one  thousand  men  met  and  placed  themselves  under 
the  command  of  Cambell,  Shelby,  Cleveland  and  others.  This 
army  was  raised  without  any  authority  from  the  government, 
the  men  had  there  own  muskets,  rifles  an  shot  guns  &  sutch  other 
wepons  as  they  could  raise,  the  Patriots  met  with  the  Brittish  & 
Torays  encamped  on  top  of  Kings  Mountain  and  there  with  an 
inferior  number  of  men  put  them  completely  to  rout,  most  all 
of  the  Brittish  and  torys  was  either  killed  or  taken  prisoners. 
Col.  Cambell  commanded  a  regiment  of  men  which  marched 
down  to  join  Gen.  Washington  about  the  time  that  Cornwallice 
was  hemed  in  Yorktown  by  the  French  fleet  &  Gen.  Washing- 
ton's. While  Cambell's  regiment  was  marching  thro*  the  county 
of  Cumberland  in  Va.,  he  encamped  his  men  one  night  near  the 
house  of  an  old  English  Parson  by  the  name  of  Macray,  who 
had  been  drawing  his  16,000  pounds  of  tobacco  for  many  years 
and  was  quite  wealthy.  When  the  regiment  pitched  their  tents 
Col.  Cambell  went  a  few  miles  to  spend  the  night  with  a  friend, 
the  ne.xt  morning  when  he  returned  his  officers  informed  him  that 
Old  Macray  had  been  down  an  said  all  that  he  could  to  discourage 
the  Solgers,  he  had  told  them  that  they  had  noi  the  most  distant 
idea  of  the  dangers  they  were  about  to  encounter,  he  said  that 
Cornwallice  had  a  vary  large  army  composed  of  the  finest  troops 
that  had  ever  left  England  and  it  was  perfect  folly  to  think  of 
encountering  them,  he  wound  up  by  saying  that  they  were  going 


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to  a  slaughter  pen  and  his  Lord  Comwallice  would  slaughter 
them  like  a  parcell  of  beeves.  As  soon  as  Cambell  heard  this 
he  sent  three  of  his  Solgers  up  to  the  house  of  Macray  with 
directions  to  tell  him  that  he  wished  to  see  him,  &  if  he  refused 
to  come  they  must  bring  him  by  force.  Macray  soon  arrived  at 
the  Camp;  Cambell  informed  him  that  he  had  during  his  absence 
said  all  that  could  have  been  said  to  discourage  his  men^  that  he 
deserved  corporal  punishment,  but  on  account  of  his  old  age  he 
would  not  mflictthat  on  him,  but  when  his  men  started  he  would 
show  him  how  his  men  and  the  rest  of  the  patriots  would  serve 
his  Lord  Cornwallice.  When  the  regiment  was  ready  to  start 
Cambell  commanded  Macray  to  lay  down  &  streatch  himself  out 
full  length  across  the  road,  as  soon  as  the  Parson  was  streached 
out  full  length  every  man  steped  over  him,  Cambell  informed 
him  that  was  the  way  that  he  intended  to  serve  his  Lord  Com- 
wallice. The  Parson  left  our  gallant  Colonel  in  such  an  ill  humor 
that  I  am  affraid  his  prays  did  not  accompany  the  gallant  com- 
mander of  the  regiment.  I  do  not  reckollect  the  services  of  Col. 
Cambell  during  the  siege  of  Yorktown. 

The  Shelbys. 

My  first  acquaintance  with  the  Shelbys  was  in  1776,  at  the 
long  Islands  of  holston,  in  the  beginning  of  Col.  Christian's 
Campayn.  Maj.  Ivins  Shelby  (the  father  of  Isaack  Shelby, 
former  governor  of  Kentucky)  lived  on  bever  creek,  a  branch 
of  holston  river,  some  distance  above  the  long  isleand,  his  sone 
James  Shelby,  commanded  a  company  during  the  whole  of 
Christian  Campane. 

Ivins  Shelby,  brother  of  James,  was  agitent  of  the  Regiment. 
Isaac  Shelby  was  not  connected  with  the  army,  although  he  was 
frequently  at  the  fort  during  the  Campane. 

Colonel  Preston. 

I  was  personally  acquainted  with  Col.  Preston, '  but  know 
nothing  of  his  services  on  the  frontier. 

Lewises. 

Col.  Andrew  Lewis  commanded  at  the  battle  of  the  point  in 
1774,  his  brother  Charles  was  also  a  Col.  Sc  fell  in  that  battle,  the 


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battle  o£  the  point  was  said  to  be  a  very  hard  fought  battle.  The 
Shandy  Indians  were  beyond  doubt  the  bravest  of  any  of  the 
Indian  tribe,  at  the  battle  of  the  point,  the  fighting  commenced 
early  in  the  day  &  lasted  until  just  before  night. 

The  Bledsoes. 

Col.  Anthony  Bledsoe  toock  command  of  the  army  on  the 
holston  in  Dec,  1776  (during  Col.  Christian's  absence  and  re- 
mained in  comm.  until  the  first  of  Aprill,  1777,  at  which  time 
he  was  elected  to  the  legislature  of  Va. ,  and  in  May  he  toock 
his  seat  as  a  member,  when  Bledso  left  the  army  the  command 
devolved  on  Col.  Wm.  Russell  who  remained  in  command  until 
Col.  Christian  returned,  which  was  the  first  of  July,  1777.  Isaick 
Bledsoe,  a  younger  brother  of  Col.  Anthony  Bledsoe,  commanded 
a  company  during  Christian's  Campane. 

Holston. 

Dec,  1774.  When  on  my  way  to  Powels  valley  wee  stoped 
at  the  house  of  a  man  by  the  name  of  Davise,  who  lived  at  the 
head  spring  of  middleholston,  while  there  Davis  informed  me 
that  the  house  that  he  lived  in  was  built  and  occupied  many  years 
before  by  a  man  by  the  name  of  Holston,  I  think  his  first  name 
was  Steven,  at  the  time  that  Holston  made  this  settlement  it  was 
twenty  miles  from  any  other  settlement,  and  from  Holston  the 
river  took  its  name. 

Colonel  Cleaveland. 

Col.  Benj.  Cleavland  was  born  in  the  county  of  Orange,  in 
Va.,  in  a  few  miles  of  where  I  was  raised. 

About  the  year  1763,  he  removed  to  the  state  of  North  Caro- 
lina and  settled  high  up  on  the  Yadkin  River.  Col.  Cleaveland 
soon  established  himself  as  one  of  the  first  men  in  that  region  of 
contry.  When  the  Revolutionary  war  broke  out  Col.  Cleave- 
land lived  in  what  was  called  the  edge  of  the  Tory  settlement. 
Notwithstanding  N.  Carolina  was  a  whig  state  yet  above  Cleave- 
lands  on  the  Yadkin  and  on  both  sides  of  the  Va.  &  N.  C.  line 
with  a  few  excei)tions,  they  were  all  Torys.  Col.  Cleaveland 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  Whig  leaders  in  the  upper  part 
of  N.  Carolina  &  by  his  prowiss  he  soon  learnt  the  Tor>'s  to 


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dread  him  more  than  any  other  man,  the  mere  sound  of  his  name 
struck  them  with  sutch  a  pannick  that  in  many  instances  it  foiled 
all  of  their  plans.  I  will  mention  one  sercumstance  to  show  how 
the  Torys  dreaded  Cleveland.  During  the  progress  of  the 
Revolutionary  war,  a  nephew  of  Col.  Cleaveland,  Jesse  Franklin," 
who  was  afterwards  governor  of  North  Carolina,  was  caught  by 
a  party  of  Torys  who  were  determined  to  hang  him,  they  tied  a 
rope  around  his  neck  &  were  about  suspending  him  to  a  limb 
when  young  Franklin  remarked  to  the  Torys,  you  have  me 
completely  in  your  power,  if  you  hang  me  it  will  be  the  dearest 
days  work  that  you  ever  performed,  you  all  know  my  Uncle 
Benjamin  Cleaveland,  if  you  hang  me  he  will  pursue  you  like  a 
blood  hound  &  he  will  never  stop  the  chase  while  there  is  a  drop 
of  warm  blood  running  through  your  veins,  the  Torys  consulted 
and  agreed  that  it  was  adviseable  to  let  young  Franklin  go. 
This  sercomstance  of  the  Torys  tying  a  rope  around  Franklin's 
neck  was  related  to  me  by  Franklin  himself 

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NOTES. 

*  Haywood,  History  of  Tennessee,  states  that  in  May,  1777,  at 
the  Long  Island  of  Holston,  this  treaty  was  concluded  with  the 
Indians  by  Commissioners  from  Virginia  and  North  Carolina. 
Those  from  Virginia  were  William  Preston,  William  Christian 
and  Evan  Shelby,  and  from  North  Carolina,  Waightstill  Avery, 
Joseph  Winston  and  Robt.  Lanier.  What  was  known  as 
'*  Brown's  Line,"  was  established  as  the  boundry  between  the 
whites  and  Indians. 

'Matthew  Clay,  of  Pittsylvania  county,  was  M.  C,  1797-1813, 
and  before  entering  Congress  had  been  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Delegates.  Charles  Clay,  of  Henrico  county,  appears  to  have 
been  in  arms  under  Nathaniel  Bacon,  and  died  in  1686,  leaving 
a  widow  Hannah  (whose  will  is  in  Henrico)  and  several  children. 
Their  son  Henry,  of  Henrico  and  Chesterfield,  born  1672,  died 
August  3,  1760.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  Mitchell  (she,  born  1693,  ^^^^  August  7,  1777)  and 
had  several  sons  and  daughters.     Of  these  sons,  John  was  (ac- 


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cording  to  the  account  written  by  General  Green  Clay)  grand- 
father of  the  great  Henry  Clay.  Charles  Clay,  brother  of  John, 
and  fourth  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Clay,  was  born  in  1716,  and 
died  at  Powhatan  C.  H.,  February  25,  1789.  He  married, 
November  11,  1741,  Martha,  daughter  of  Thos.  Green  and 
Elizabeth  Mastin,  or  Marston,  his  wife,  and  had  (with  other  issue) 
I.  Rev.  Eleazer,  born  August  4,  1742;  2.  Matthew  (of  the  text) 
born  March  25,  1754,  married  first,  Polly  Williams,  and  secondly, 

Saunders,  and  died  at  Halifax  C.  H.,  in  1815;  3.  General 

Greene,  of  Kentucky,  born  August  14,  1757,  died  October  21, 
1828. 

"General  Peter  Johnston,  was  the  son  of  Peter  Johnston,  who 
is  stated  in  Hughes'  Life  of  General  J.  E.  Johnston,  to  have 
been  born  at  Annan,  Scotland,  in  17 10,  emigrated  from  Edin- 
burgh to  Virginia,  in  1727,  and  settled  at  Osbornes,  on  James 
River,  where  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  successful  merchant. 
Peter  Johnston  married,  March  19,  1761,  Mrs.  Martha  Rogers, 
daughter  of  John  Butler,  and  in  1765  removed  to  *'Cherr>' 
Grove  '*  Prince  Edward  county.  He  had  issue,  Peter  (the  Gen- 
eral Peter  Johnston  of  the  text)  and  three  other  sons.  General 
Johnston  entered  Lee's  Legion,  and  served  as  a  lieutenant  from 
1780  to  the  close  of  the  war;  was  member  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates, Brigadier  General  of  Militia,  and  in  1811  was  appointed  a 
Judge  of  the  General  Court.  Judge  Johnston  married,  in  1788, 
Mary,  daughter  of  V^alentine  Wood,  of  Goochland  county  (whose 
wife  was  a  sister  of  Patrick  Henry),  and  had  nine  sons  and  one 
daughter.  The  eldest,  John,  was  the  father  of  U.  S.  senator 
John  W.  Johnston ;  the  next,  Peter,  was  a  well  known  lawyer  in 
South  West  Virginia;  the  third,  Charles  Clement,  was  a  member 
of  Congress;  another  son,  Beverley  Randolph,  was  also  a  dis- 
tinguished lawyer  in  South  West  Virginia.  Still  another,  Ed- 
ward, was  a  prominent  editor;  at  one  time  in  charge  of  the 
National  Intelligencer,  His  brother  Algernon  Sidney,  was  also 
an  editor,  and  was  author  of  "  Memoirs  of  a  iVulliJier,'*  a  book 
of  some  note  at  the  time.  The  eighth  son  was  General  Jose[)h 
E.  Johnston,  C.  S.  A. 

*  Creed  laylor,  of  **  Needwood  "  Cumberland  county,  one  of 
the  most  eminent  lawyers  in  Virginia  at  his  day,  was  member  of 


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the  House  of  Delegates  from  Cumberland  in  1788,  and  of  the 
State  Senate  1798-1805.  He  was  president  of  the  last  named 
body  of  the  session  of  1804-5.  On  November  2»  1805,  he  was 
elected  a  judge  of  the  General  Court,  and  on  June  14,  1806, 
Chancellor  of  the  Richmond  District.  His  law  school  at 
'  *  Needwood  * '  was  celebrated  and  a  volume  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  moot-court  there,  was  published.  Chancellor  Taylor  died 
January  17,  1836,  aged  70.  His  brother  John,  was  father  of 
Samuel  Taylor,  of  Chesterfield  and  Richmond,  also  an  eminent 
lawyer,  who  was  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  181 6,  1817, 
and  1818,  of  the  State  Senate  1826-29,  and  of  the  Convention 
of  1829,  from  Chesterfield.  He  died  February  23,  1853,  aged 
72,  and  was  father  of  the  late  Wm.  F.  Taylor,  Auditor  of  Vir- 
ginia. John,  brother  of  Chancellor  Taylor,  was  also  the  grand- 
father of  Albert  Taylor  Bledsoe;  and  Congressmen  Glover,  of 
St.  Louis,  and  James  Taylor  Jones  of  Alabama  are  of  the  descent. 
Miss  Ellen  Glasgow,  the  authoress,  is  another  distinguished 
descendant. 

*  Daniel  Boon  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Legislature  from 
Fayette  county,  in  1786,  and  October,  1787. 

•John  Campbell  came  from  Ireland  to  America  in  1726,  with 
five  or  six  grown  sons,  settled  first  in  Lancaster  county.  Pa. ,  and 
came  in  1738,  to  that  part  of  Orange  county,  Va.,  now  Augusta, 
with  his  sons  Patrick,  Robert  and  David.  Patrick  was  grand- 
father of  General  William  Campbell  (born  1745)  and  his  sister 
Margaret,  who  married  Arthur  Campbell.  David  (son  of  John 
the  immigrant)  was  father  of  Col.  Arthur  Campbell,  who  was 
born  in  Augusta,  in  1742,  and  died  in  18 11.  While  serving 
under  his  father  against  the  Indians,  Arthur  Campbell  was 
captured,  and  remained  a  prisoner  three  years  when  he  escaped. 
About  1770,  he  removed  to  the  Holston  River,  in  what  is  now 
Washington  county,  and  from  that  time  was  one  of  the  foremost 
men  of  the  western  portion  of  the  State.  He  was  frequently  a 
member  of  the  Assembly,  and  was  in  the  Convention  of  1788. 
Throughout  the  Revolution  and  for  some  years  afterwards  he 
was  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  defense  of  the  frontier.  He  re- 
moved to  Yellow  Creek,  Knox  county,  Ky.,  and  died  there  in 
his  seventy-fourth  year  (the  accounts  as  to  date  of  death  do  not 


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agree).  The  Calendar  of  Virginia  State  Papers  contains  a  large 
number  of  letters  from  and  in  regard  to  him,  which  shows  his 
military  and  political  activity.  A  study  of  his  life  would  afford 
material  for  a  paper  of  much  interest. 

Colonel  Arthur  CampbelFs  son,  Col.  John  B.  Campbell,  U.  S. 
A.,  fell  at  the  battle  of  Chippewa,  and  another  son,  Captain 
James  Campbell,  died  in  service  at  Mobile  during  the  same  war. 

For  biographical  sketches  of  Arthur  Campbell,  see  Howe' s  Vir- 
ginia, 503-4,  of  General  Wm.  Campbell,  504-5,  of  Judge  Peter 
Johnston,  504-6,  and  of  Washington  county,  500-503.  For 
notices  of  the  Campbell  family,  see  WaddeW s  Augusta  County, 
98-99,  396-398;  Foote'  s  Sketches  of  Virginia,  2d  series,  11 4-1 21, 
126-133  (includiug  Campbell,  Shelby  and  Sevier's  report  of  the 
battle  of  Kings  Mountain).  And,  of  course,  Draper's  Kivgs 
Mountain  and  Its  Heroes, 

'William  Preston,  son  of  John  Preston,  the  immigrant,  was 
bom  in  Ireland,  in  1730,  and  died  at  **  Smithfield,'*  in  1783. 
During  the  French  and  Indian  war  he  commanded  a  company  of 
rangers,  and  many  of  the  letters  in  the  Dinwiddie  Papers  (Va. 
Hist.  So. )  were  addressed  to  him.  He  was  one  of  the  first  trustees 
of  Staunton  in  1761,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Au- 
gusta in  1766,  1767,  1768,  and  for  Botetourt  in  1769.  On  the 
formation  of  Botetourt  he  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  militia  of 
that  county,  as  well  as  surveyor,  coroner  and  escheator.  In 
1 780 he  was  engaged  with  Colonels  Campbell  and  Christian  in  their 
expeditions  against  the  Cherokees,  and  throughout  the  Revolu- 
tion he  was  actively  engaged,  holding  important  military  com- 
mands in  southwest  Virginia.  Many  of  his  descendants,  through 
male  and  female  lines  of  descent,  have  been  of  note  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  United  States. 

The  record  of  military  bounty  warrants  for  the  French  and 
Indian  War  in  the  V^irginia  Land  Office,  gives  the  following: 

[Page  307.]     ''At  a  Court  continued  and  held  for  Montgomery 

County,  April  5,  1780. 

"William  Preston  having  made  due  and  Satisfactory  [proof] 

to  the  Court  that  he  served  as  Capt.  of  a  Company  of  Rangers 

raised  by  act  of  assembly,  from  the  14th  day  of  July,  1755,  to 


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the  24th  of  June,  1756,  when  the  said  company  was  disbanded 
by  order  of  the  Governor  of  Virg",  that  he  was  under  the  com- 
mand of  Col.  James  Patton  until  he  was  killed  in  the  service, 
then  for  some  time  under  the  immediate  command  of  the  Gov- 
ernor, and  the  Remainder  of  the  Time  was  under  Major  Andrew 
Lewis,  an  officer  of  the  V^irg"  Regm*,  that  the  said  Preston 
was  allowed  his  Bounty  of  land  for  said  service  by  Lord  Dun- 
more  in  Dec',  1773.  It  further  appears  to  the  Court  by  full 
and  satisfactory  proof  that  the  said  William  Preston  commanded 
another  company  of  rangers  raised  by  act  of  assembly  of  June 
the  8th,  1757,  when  his  commission  was  dated,  and  continued  in 
said  Service  untill  the  4th  of  May,  1759,  when  the  company  was 
disbanded  by  order  of  the  Governor;  that  part  of  the  above 
time  the  s**  preston  was  under  the  command  of  Major  Andrew 
Lewis  untill  May,  1758,  and  afterwards  under  the  immediate 
Command  of  the  Governor  of  Virg',  and  that  he  never  received 
any  Bounty  of  land  or  warrant  for  s*^  service,  agreeable  to  the 
King  of  Great  Britian's  proclamation  of  1763  &  the  act  of  as- 
sembly. 

"Daniel  McGavock,  D.  CI.  M[ontgomery.]*' 

Additional  land  was  granted  by  the  State. 

*  Jesse  Franklin  was  born  in  Orange  county,  Virginia,  March 
4,  1760,  died  1 84-,  was  adjutant  to  his  uncle  Colonel  Cleveland, 
at  the  battle  of  Kings  Mountain;  was  a  member  of  the  North 
Carolina  legislature  and  of  Congress;  United  States  Senator 
1799-1805,  1807-1813;  President, /fV7  tem,  of  the  Senate,  1805, 
and  elected  Governor  of  North  Carolina,  1820. 


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[Abstracts  from  British  Public  Record  Office,  by  VV.  N.  Sainsbur>-.] 


Commission  to  Governor  Wvatt,  1624. 

Aug.  26,  1624. 

The  King's  commission  to  Sir  Francis  Wyatt  and  others,  to 
be  Governor  and  council  of  Virginia. 

The  substance  of  his  maj.  letters  Patents  of  the  4th  (10  april, 
1606)  7th  (23  may,  1609)  and  9th  (12  march.  161 2)  years  are 
recited.  The  examination  of  the  State  of  Virginia  by  com^  who 
certified  that  most  of  the  people,  by  sickness,  famine  and  mas- 
sacres by  the  savages  were  dead,  tho*  the  country  appeared 
fruitful  and  healthful,  so  that  the  neglect  the  comm"  conceived 
must  fall  on  the  Governors  and  company  here.  His  majesty* 
resolves  to  alter  the  charters  of  the  company  as  to  the  point  of 
government  and  that  because  the  Treasurer  and  company  did  not 
submit  their  charters  to  be  reformed,  said  charters  were  upon  a 
quo  warranto  avoided  and  ako  the  appK)intment  by  commission 
dated  July  15,  1624,  of  Henry  Viscount  Mandeville,  Lord  Presi- 
dent of  the  Council  and  others  for  managing  the  af!airs  of  said 
colony  in  England  and  said  commissioners  having  advised  to 
appoint  persons  residing  in  Virginia  for  the  ordering  of  affairs 
there,  his  maj.  by  these  presents  nominates  Sir  Francis  Wyatt, 
Ciovernor,  and  PVancis  West,  Sir  George  Yeardley,  George 
Sandys,  Robert  [Roger]  Smith,  Ralph  Hamor,  John  Martin,' 
John  Harvey,"  Samuel  Mathews,' Abraham  Piersey,*  Isaac  Madi- 

*  Captain  John  Martin,  member  of  the  first  Council  of  Virginia  in  1607, 
1624,  &c.  All  of  the  writers  on  the  early  history  of  Virginia,  from 
Captain  Smith  to  Mr.  Brown,  treat  largely  of  John  Martin,  who  unjustly 
or  not,  seems  to  have  been  thoroughly  disliked  by  most  of  the  people 
t)f  Virginia. 

•Afterwards  Sir  John  Harvey,  and  Governor  of  Virginia  1630-35,  and 
January,  1636-7,  to  the  fall  of  1639.  For  notices  of  him  and  of  his  depo- 
sition by  the  Council  and  others,  see  this  Magazine  I.  87,  416-431:  HI, 
21-34. 

"Captain  Samuel  Matthews,  member  of  the  Council  1624-44,  ajrain  in 
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son  ^  and  William  Claybourne,  council  for  said  colony  with 
authority  to  govern  and  punish,  according  to  instructions  here- 
tofore given  or  that  shall  hereafter  be  given  by  his  maj,  or  his 
commis'*.    T^/i  niembranes  ( /^<://r;//  Roll 22,  Jas.  I,  part  17,  No.  2.) 


Governor  Wvatt  and  Council,  to  the  Vrginia 
Company. 

James  City,  Dec.  2,  1624. 
(Governor  Sir  Francis  Wyatt  and  Council  of  Virginia  to  Henry 
Earl  of  Southampton,  with  the  Lords  and  others  of  the  council 
and  company  of  Virginia.  Have  received  letters  from  the  Lords 
of  the  council  of  19  Dec. ,  1623,  and  from  the  company  of  4  Feby. 
(1623-4)  of  especial  recommendations  in  behalf  of  Capt.  John 
Martin,  which  by  divers  reports,  since  his  arrival,  he  hath  litde 
deserved,  notwithstanding  are  ready  to  give  their  best  assistance 
to  the  accommodation  of  his  business.  Have  received  no  orders 
concerning  the  widow  Smaley  till  the  receipt  of  their  last  letters, 
herself  is  not  yet  arrived  in  Virginia  but  remaining  in  New 
England,  nor  hath  appointed  any  to  solicit  her  cause,  but  at  her 
arrival  she  shall  find  all  lawful  favor.  They  have  had  a  great 
victory  this  year  over  Otiotan  and  the  Pamunkeys  with  their 

1652,  Governor  from  December,  1656  to  his  deatli  in  January,  1659.  See 
this  Majjazine  I,  91;  and  William  and  Mary  Quarterly  III,  173;  V,  277- 
78;  VI,  91-94. 

*  Abraham  Persey,  Piersey  or  Percey,  Cape  Merchant  (Treasurer)  of 
Virginia,  1619;  member  of  the  Council  1624-28.  See  this  Magazine  1, 
187  88. 

^Captain  Isaac  Madison  came  to  Virginia  in  1608.  He  died  at  Shirley 
Hundred,  in  1624,  before  the  notice  of  his  appointment  to  the  Council 
reached  him.  His  wife  Mary,  who  came  in  the  ship  Treasurer,  in  161 S, 
was  living  in  1624,  aged  30  at  "West  and  Shirley  Hundred."  Captain 
Madison  was  an  influential  man  in  the  colony  and  took  an  active  part  in 
its  defence  against  the  Indians.  A  street  ballad  was  printed  in  London, 
in  1624,  in  honor  of  the  leaders  in  the  war  against  the  Indians,  which 
contains  the  following  in  regard  to  Captain  Madison: 

"  And  Captaine  Maddisone  likewise  with  honor  did  proceed. 
Who  coming  took  not  [only]  all  their  corne,  but  likewise  took  their  Kinii;, 
And  unto  James  his  Citty  he  did  these  rich  trophies  bring." 

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Confederates,  by  not  above  60  fighting  men,  whereof  24  were 
employed  only  in  cutting  down  corn.  In  this  fight  was  shown 
what  the  Indians  could  do,  having  maintained  fight  two  days 
and  much  in  the  open  field,  the  young  men  being  beaten  up  by 
the  elder  and  corn  cut  down  sufficient  to  sustain  4,000  men  for  a 
twelve  month.  Had  they  been  well  furnished  with  powder,  the 
Governor  would  have  proceeded  to  Matipony  river  and  hazarded 
the  starving  of  all  those  nations.  In  this  expedition,  sixteen 
English  were  hurt,  including  nine  of  the  best  shot,  yet  never  a 
man  slain,  nor  none  that  have  miscarried  of  those  hurts.  Since 
when  the  Indians  have  not  greatly  troubled  them.  The  Indians 
were  never  known  to  show  so  great  resolution,  there  being  of  the 
Pamunkeys  800  bowmen  besides  other  nations.  Much  depended 
upon  the  success  of  this  action,  the  Pamunkeys  having  made 
great  brag  of  what  they  would  do  among  the  northern  nations, 
of  which  the  King  of  Patuxen  sent  an  Indian  to  the  English 
expressly  to  be  an  eye  witness  of  the  event.  Regret  their  small 
store  of  powder  which  is  now  so  far  exhausted,  that  without  a 
supply  they  will  not  be  able  to  maintain  their  plantations  against 
attemps  made  upon  them,  and  earnestly  desire  a  further  supply 
with  the  greatest  celerity.  This  summer  the  colony  hath  very 
well  stood  to  health,  which  affirms  that  the  mortality  of  former 
years  is  not  to  be  imputed  to  the  climate.  A  plentiful  harvest  of 
corn  God  hath  sent  them  and  the  industrious  are  well  stored  with 
other  provisions  so  that,  excepting  the  number  of  men,  the  colony 
hath  worn  out  the  scars  of  the  massacre  and  if  in  one  thing  it 
comes  short,  in  many  things  it  exceedeth  the  former  conditions. 
Signed  by  the  Governor  and  by  Sir  P'rancis  West,  Sir  (}eorge 
Yeardley,  Geo,  Sandys,  Roger  Smith,  John  Pott  and  Ralph 
Hamor.     2 '  _>  pt.     (  Colonial  Papers ^  Vol.  3,  No.  30. ) 


Gov.   WVATT  AND    CoiXCIL  TO    THE  V'iRCHNIA    CoMPANV. 

James  City,  F'eb.  4,  1624-5. 

Governor  Sir  P'rancis  Wyatt,  Sir  P^rancis  West,  Sir  George 
Yeardley,  (George  Sandys,  John  Pott,  Roger  Smith  and  Ralph 
Hamor,  to  Henry,  P2arl  of  Southampton  and  the  Council  and 
Company  of  Virginia,  send  as  commanded  particulars  of  their 
proceedings  and  orders  upon  the  complaints  of  Captain  John 


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132  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

Martin  against  Sir  George  Yeardley,*  and  also  for  the  cattle  in 
question  between  him  and  Captain  Bargrave,  so  far  as  concerns 
the  possession,  not  the  right  and  property  which  controversy  is 
yet  depending  in  the  High  Court  of  Chancery,  in  England. 
Cannot  but  praise  the  company's  charity  in  forgiving  and  for- 
getting those  many  and  foul  injuries  whereof  he  hath  boasted, 
yet  hold  it  their  duties  to  inform  how  much  they  are  mistaken 
in  him,  being  besides  his  many  slanders  whereof  they  send  some 
particulars,  a  source  of  dissension  and  disobedience  and  a  man 
of  so  light  report  and  credit  in  the  Colony  that  they  hope  the 
venom  that  proceeds  from  him  will  produce  no  dangerous  effect. 
Cannot  but  be  sensible  how  much  the  obedience  to  themselves 
hath  been  shaken  &  weakened,  first  at  rumours  spread  at  the 
coming  of  the  CommisVs,  now  revived  by  Capt.  Martin,  and 
must  forsee  how  much  the  Plantations  and  their  good  opinions 
with  the  company  are  likely  to  suffer  by  false  suggestions. 
(^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  3,  No.  36.) 


Proclamation  by  Charles  I,  in  Regard  to  Virginia. 

Whitehall,  May  13,  1625. 
Proclamation  by  the  King  whereas  the  colony  of  Virginia 
planted  by  the  hands  of  our  most  dear  father  of  blessed  memory 
for  the  propagation  of  Christian  religion,  the  increase  of  trade 
and  the  enlarging  of  his  royal  Empire  hath  not  hitherto  pros- 
pered so  happily  as  was  hoped  and  desired,  a  great  occasion 
whereof  his  late  majesty  conceived  to  be,  for  that  the  govern- 
ment of  that  colony  was  committed  to  the  company  of  Virginia, 
incorporated  of  a  multitude  of  persons  of  several  dispositions, 
amongst  whom  the  affairs  of  greatest  moment  were  and  must  be 
ruled  by  the  greater  number  of  votes  and  voices  and  therefore 
his  late  maj.  did  desire  to  presume  that  popular  government  and 
accordingly  the  letters  Patents  of  that  Incorporation  were  by  his 
highness  direction  in  a  legal  course  questioned  and  thereupon 
judicially  repealed  and  adjudged  to  be  void,  wherein  his  maj. 
aim  was  only  to  reduce  that  government  into  such  a  right  course 
as  might  best  agree  with  that  form  which  was  held  in  the  rest  of 


*See  Yeardley's  reply,  printed  post. 


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VIRGINIA    IN    1624-5.  133 

his  Monarchy  and  was  not  intended  by  him  to  take  away  or  im- 
peach the  particular  interest  of  any  private  planter  or  adventurer, 
nor  to  alter  the  same  otherwise  than  should  be  of  necessity  lor 
the  ^ood  of  the  public,  and  whereas  we  continue  the  like  care  of 
those  colonies  as  our  late  dear  father  did  and  upon  deliberate 
advice  are  of  the  same  judgement  with  our  said  father  for  the 
government  of  Virginia.  Now  lest  the  apprehension  of  former 
personal  differences  might  distract  the  minds  of  the  planters  or 
adventurers,  or  the  opinion  that  we.  would  neglect  those  planta- 
tions, might  discourage  men  to  go  or  send  thither.  We  have 
thought  fit  to  publish  our  own  resolution  in  these  things — that  we 
hold  those  territories  of  Virginia  &  the  Somers  Islands  as  also 
of  New  England  to  be  a  part  of  our  Royal  Empire,  descended 
upon  us  and  undoubtedly  belonging  unto  us  and  that  we  hold 
ourself  as  well  bound  by  our  regal  office  to  protect,  maintain  and 
support  the  same  and  are  so  resolved  to  do  as  any  other  part  of 
our  Dominions. 

And  that  our  full  resolution  is,  to  the  end  that  there  may  be 
one  uniform  course  of  government  through  our  whole  Monarchy 
that  the  government  of  Virginia  shall  immediately  depend  upon 
ourself  and  not  be  committed  to  any  company  or  corporation  to 
whom  it  may  be  proper  to  trust  matters  of  trade  and  commerce, 
but  cannot  be  fit  or  safe  to  communicate  the  ordering  of  State 
affairs,  be  they  of  never  so  mean  consequence  and  that  therefore 
we  have  determined  that  our  commissioners  for  those  affairs  shall 
proceed  according  to  the  tenor  of  our  commission  directed  to 
them,  until  we  shall  declare  our  further  pleasure  therein,  never- 
theless we  do  hereby  declare  that  we  are  resolved  to  establish  a 
council  consisting  of  a  few  persons  of  understanding  and  quality, 
for  the  immediate  care  of  the  affairs  of  that  colony  who  shall 
be  answerable  to  us  for  their  proceedings  and  in  matters  of 
greater  moment  shall  be  subordinate  to  our  privy  Council  here, 
and  that  we  will  also  establish  another  council  to  be  resident  in 
Virginia,  who  shall  be  subordinate  to  our  Council  here,  for  that 
Colony,  and  that  our  own  charge  we  will  maintain  those  public 
officers  &  ministers,  and  that  strength  of  men,  munition  and  for- 
tification fit  and  necessary  for  the  defense  of  that  plantation  and 
will  by  any  course  that  shall  be  desired  of  us,  settle  and  assure 
the  particular  rights  and  interests  of  every  planter  and  adven- 


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134  VIRCJINIA    HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

turcT  in  any  of  those  Territories  which  shall  desire  the  same  to 
give  them  full  satisfaction  for  their  quiet  and  assured  enjoying 
thereof. 

And  lastly,  whereas  it  is  agreed  on  all  sides,  that  the  Tobacco 
of  \'irginia  and  the  Somers  Islands  (the  only  present  means  for 
their  subsistence)  cannot  be  managed  for  the  good  of  the  plan- 
tations unless  it  be  brought  into  one  hand,  whereas  foreign  to- 
bacco may  be  carefully  kept  out  &  the  Tobacco  of  those  planta- 
tions may  yield  a  certain  and  ready  price  to  the  owners.  We 
are  resolved  to  take  the  same  into  our  own  hands  &  to  give  such 
prices  for  same  as  may  give  the  planters  &  adventurers  reason- 
able satisfaction  &  encouragement,  there  manner  hereof  we  will 
determine  hereafter.  Our  late  Proclamation  of  9  April  last, 
touching  Tobacco,  to  be  strictly  observed.  And  we  do  hereby 
advise  all  our  loving  subjects,  and  all  others  whom  it  may  con- 
cern, not  to  adventure  the  breach  of  our  Royal  Commandment 
in  any  of  the  premises  we  being  fully  resolved  upon  no  impor- 
tunity or  intercession  whatsoever  to  release  or  remit  the  deserved 
punishment  of  such  as  shall  dare  to  offend  against  the  same, 
seeing  we  hold  not  ourself  only  but  our  people  interested  therein. 
{Proclamations  Charles  /,  No.  10.) 


GOVKRNOR    WVATT     AND    COUXCIL    TO    THE     PrIVV    Coi'NCIL. 

James  City,  June  15,  1625. 

(iovernor  Sir  Francis  Wyatt  and  Council  of  Virginia  to  [the 
Privy  Council].  Have  received  their  Lordships'  order  for  re- 
turning an  account  of  Mr.  Pountis  his  estate;  the  value  of  it  far 
short  of  what  they  conceived,  his  debts  ten  times  exceeding  the 
same,  so  desire  to  be  excused  sending  home  the  goods,  the 
most  part  not  worth  the  transport,  to  the  end  the  creditors  may 
receive  some  satisfaction.  In  reference  to  Sir  Thomas  Merry's 
suit — as  executor  to  Pountis,  against  John  Hart  for  ;{^200,  as- 
signed by  the  country  to  him  towards  for  soliciting  their  affairs — 
since  no  money  was  expended  and  their  suit  not  prosecuted,  by 
reason  of  Pountis'  death  at  his  first  arrival  (in  England),  beg 
the  suit  may  not  proceed  to  the  perverting  of  the  intention  of 
their  gift  and  the  equity  of  the  cause  itself.  His  Maj.  commis- 
sioners for  \'irginia  have  written  to  send  home  the  tobacco  levied 


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VIRGINIA    IN    1624-5.  135 

for  the  discharge  of  the  two  hundred  pounds,  which  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  desire  they  may  not  be  forced  into. 

Captain  John  Martin  lately  nominated  by  his  Majesty  to  be  of 
the  Council  in  Virginia,  hath  proved  himself  altogether  un- 
worthy: have  been  forced  to  suspend  him — his  many  delin- 
quences  from  his  first  entrance  into  the  land  until  they  grew  to 
so  great  an  excess  as  was  dangerous  to  his  Maj.  service  and  ex- 
tremely predjudicial  to  the  Colony.  Humbly  desire  that  this 
may  be  accepted  for  their  just  excuse.  Understand  from  one  of 
his  Maj.  Commis'rs  for  Virginia  that  his  Maj.  is  highly  incensed 
against  them  for  punishing  one  Edward  Sharpies,*  who,  being 
far  above  his  quality,  was  at  his  earnest  request  admitted  as  their 
clerk  and  sworn  not  to  deliver  any  copies  of  their  writings  with- 
out leave  from  the  Governor,  he,  contrary  to  his  oath  and  duty, 
hath  upon  a  secret  practice  delivered  their  papers  which  greatly 
concerned  them,  for  which  his  perfidiousness  and  perjury  he  was 
set  in  the  pilory  and  lost  a  piece  of  one  of  his  ears,  though  his 
sentence  was  to  lose  them  both.  This  hath  been  so  misreported 
to  his  Maj.  as  a  bloody  and  barbarous  act  and  themselves  threat- 
ened with  foul  and  injurious  terms,  "as  if  we  were  below  the 
condition  of  freemen.*'  Desire  they  may  not  tread  as  upon 
thorns  in  all  their  actions,  through  the  malice  of  their  traducers 
nor  be  subject  to  their  violent  insultings.  Lastly,  they  offer  for 
consideration,  the  desperate  state  of  this  colony  by  the  late  per- 
nicious contract  which  hath  diverted  his  Maj.  bounty  to  this  col- 
ony in  granting  them  the  sole  importation  of  Tobacco,  which 
well  ordered  would  certainly  advance  the  plantation,  but  by  con- 
verting the  benefit  thereof  to  private  and  inordinate  lucre  hath 


*  Edward  Sharpless  became  Acting  Secretary'  of  the  Colony  early  in 
1624.  Contrary  to  the  order  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  he  secretly 
furnished  to  the  royal  commissioners  sent  to  V'irj^inia,  copies  of  various 
communications  from  the  Governor,  Council  and  Burgesses,  to  the  \'ir- 
ginia  Company,  as  well  as  other  important  papers  sent  to  England  by 
John  Pountis.  For  this  breach  of  trust  he  justly  incurred  the  indignation 
of  the  Virginia  authorities,  and  on  May  20,  1624,  was  sentenced  to  be 
pilloried  and  have  his  ears  cut  off.  It  appears,  however,  that  only  a 
piece  of  one  ear  was  actually  cut.  This  vigorous  assertion  of  the 
privileges  ot  their  Assembly  by  the  N'irginians,  of  course  highly  incensed 
the  King. 


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136  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

given  the  colony  the  greatest  blow  that  ever  it  received  and 
without  speedy  redress  will  prove  incurable,  the  effects  whereof 
begin  to  disclose  themselves  in  their  scant  and  miserable  supplies, 
at  most  unconscionable  rates  and  in  the  greatest  discouragement 
of  the  whole  Colony.  They  may  not  be  silent  that  some  of  his 
Maj.  commis'rs  are  contrivers  and  fovorers  of  this  contract,  con- 
trary to  the  trust  reposed  in  them.  The  malicious  designs  now 
in  plotting  to  overthrow  his  Maj.  public  Ministers  who  have  dis- 
charged their  consciences  in  his  Maj.  service  with  all  integrity 
and  fidelity,  desire  their  Lordships  to  take  their  innocency  into 
their  Lords* *'  patronage  and  that  the  colony  may  not  fell  while 
it  is  in  their  charge  by  the  sinister  practices  of  others. 

Signed  by  Sir  Francis  Wyatt,  Sir  Francis  West,  &  Sir  George 
Yeardley,  Ralph  Hamor,  Sam'l  Mathews,  Wm.  Clayburne, 
George  Sandys,  Abrah.  Piersey,  &  Roger  Smith.  3  pages 
{Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  3,  No.  41.) 


Answer  of  Sir  George  Yeardley  to  Charges  of  Captain 
John  Martin,  &c. 


(Copy  from  British  Pub.  Rec.  Office.) 


[Captain  John  Martin,  who  came  to  Virginia  in  the  the  first 
expedition  in  1607,  ^^^  remained  in  public  life  in  the  Colony 
longer  than  any  of  his  companions  in  the  early  settlement,  was 
long  a  thorn  in  the  flesh  to  the  Virginia  authorities.  In  England 
he  was  one  of  the  faction  of  the  Virginia  Company  which  was 
subservient  to  the  King*s  wishes,  and  was  one  of  those  who 
voted  to  surrender  the  charter,  and  in  Virginia,  he  was  from 
161 6  constantly  in  opposition  to  the  Governor  and  Assembly. 
Two  burgesses  were  sent  from  his  plantation,  Martins  Brandon, 
to  the  first  Assembly,  in  161 9,  but  they  were  very  properly  ex- 
cluded by  the  House,  because  under  the  terms  of  Martin's  pat- 
ent, his  plantation  seemed,  and  was  claimed  by  him,  to  be 
exempt  from  the  general  government  of  the  Colony.  At  this 
Assembly,  objection  was  also  made  to  seating  the  burgesses 
from  Captain  Ward's  plantation,  on  the  ground  that  Capt.  Ward 


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ANSWER   OF   GOV.   YEARDLEY   TO   JOHN    MARTIN.  137 

had  settled  a  plantation  without  authority  to  do  so.  They  were 
however  seated.  Mr.  Brown  (•*  First  Republic*')  thinks  the 
grounds  for  not  seating  the  burgesses  from  Ward's  stronger  than 
those  against  seating  the  members  from  Martin's,  but  that  there 
must  have  been  some  wire-pulling  against  Martin.  It  is  not 
dear,  however,  for  what  reason  he  comes  to  this  conclusion. 
Even  if  the  inhabitants  at  Ward's  had  been  squatters,  they  made 
no  objection  to  the  full  jurisdiction  of  the  General  Assembly, 
while  Captain  Martin  held  firmly  to  his  patent,  which  exempted 
him  from  such  jurisdiction.  As  a  matter  of  course  his  delegates 
could  not  be  admitted. 

Before  this  Assembly  met  it  was  evident  that  there  had  been 
ill  feeling  between  Martin  and  the  administration  in  Virginia,  for 
John  Rolfe  charged  him  with  having  made  unjust  charges  again.st 
him.  and  **  cast  some  asfx^rsions  on  the  present  government." 

Martin  seems  to  have  considered  that  Governor  Sir  George 
Yeardley  was  the  chief  cause  of  all  his  losses  and  difficulties  in 
Virginia,  and  accordingly  drew  up,  in  England,  certain  charges 
against  him.  The  Virginia  Company  referred  him  to  Virginia 
for  a  trial  on  the  charges,  and  below  are  given  Veardley's  de- 
fense, with  sundry  orders,  &c.,  relating  to  the  case.  In  itself 
the  matter  is  of  no  special  importance,  but  the  statements  made 
by  Yeardley  and  others  throw  light  on  the  conditions  at  the 
time.] 

[State  Paper  Office,  Col.  Vol.  3,  No.  36.  I.] 

The  answer  of  Sir  George  Veardly,  Knight,  defendant,  to  the 
demands  of  Capt.  John  Martin,  Esq..  comp',  whereby  he  re- 
quireth  recompense  of  wrongs  done  him. 

To  the  first.  The  said  defendant  saiih  that  he  never  knew 
that  Mr.  Whittakers  had  at  any  time  any  come  of  the  said  com- 
plainant's but  saith  that  Mr.  Whittakers  intestate,*  he  the  said 
Defendant  being  then  Deputy  Governor  of  Virginia,  requiretl 
one  Thomas  Hobson  who  l>elonged  to  Mr.  Whittakers  and  was 
as  his  sonn  &  child,  kept  by  him  in  his  life  time,  to  take  an  In- 


*  What  is  probably  mt^ant,  is  thai  a*^  Mr.  Whitaker  died  intestate,  his 
property  was  in  the  custody  of  Yeardley,  as  governor,  until  an  heir 
appeared. 


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138  VIRCJINIA    HISTORICAI.    MAGAZINE. 

ventorie  of  all  such  goods  &  provisions  as  were  then  to  be  found 
in  the  said  Mr.  Whittakers'  house  &  then  to  take  into  his  safe 
custodie  that  if  afterwards  there  did  appeare  any  to  whom  the 
goods  might  more  rightly  belong,  he  should  be  accomptable  for 
them,  and  the  said  defendant  saith  there  was  as  far  as  he  remem- 
bereth,  found  in  the  said  house  of  corne  tenn  Barrells  of  eares 
which  he  verily  believeth  was  the  said  Mr.  Whittaker's  owne 
come,  which  corn  was  afterwards  disposed  of  and  spent  by  the 
same  Thos.  Hobson  in  the  feeding  of  himself,  Garrett  Holland, 
John  Flood,'  one  Reuben,  all  of  them  servants  to  the  said  Mr. 
Whittakers.  And  saith  further  that  after  the  arrival  of  Sir 
Samuell  Argall  who  succeeded  the  said  defendant  in  the  govern- 
ment of  Virginia,  there  came  into  this  Colony  a  sister  of  Mr. 
Whittakers  who  made  enquiry  after  the  goods  of  her  deceased 
brother,  but  found  that  he  left  but  little  of  value  behind  him. 
At  that  time  also  was  the  said  complainant  herein  this  countrie 
who  no  doubt  if  had  then  complained  to  Sir  Samuell  Argall 
and  could  have  made  proof  that  the  said  corne  had  any  waise 
belonged  unto  him  he  might  then  have  recovered  the  same. 
For  the  corne  wgs  at  that  time  very  little  thereof  spent.  If  he 
did  not  then  complaine  or  had  not  had  justice  don  him  therein, 
the  said  defendant  saith  it  was  no  fault  of  his. 

To  the  second,  the  said  defendant  saith  that  he  doth  remem- 
ber one  Pope  who  served  in  his  shipj)  as  cooke  entertained  for 
that  purpose  by  James  Breet,  Master  of  his  said  shipp  8c  went 
also  for  England  as  he  remembereth  wherein,  but  whether  the 
said  Pope  were  servant  to  the  complainant  or  was  runn  away 
from  him  the  said  Defend*  knoweth  not,  and  doth  further  pro- 
test &  will  be  ready  to  be  sworn  that  the  said  complain'  never 
at  any  time  to  his  remembrance  spacke  to  the  said  Defend'  of 
or  concerning  the  said  Pope,  nor  that  ever  he  so  much  as  heard 
say  that  the  said  Pope  was  run  away  from  the  said  complainant. 

To  the  third,  the  Defend'  saith  that  with  his  knowledge  or  by 
any  warrant  or  allowance  of  his  there  were  never  any  kine  or 
( alves  taken  from  the  said  complain'  to  the  use  of  Mr.  Bargrave 
as  he  suggesteth  and  therefore  the  said   Defend'  deemeth  the 

'  Probably  John  Mood,  a  well  known  interpreter  of  the  Indian  lan- 
jiuage. 


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ANSUKK    OF    (JOV.   VRARDl.EV    TO   JOHN'    MARTIN*.  139 

said  complain'  to  be  much  mistaken  in  demandin^j;  allowance  for 
any  such  kine  or  calves  from  him  the  said  defendant. 

To  the  Fourth,  the  said  Defendant  saith  that  he  was  never  ac- 
<|uainted  that  the  said  complain'  had  hired  any  of  Capt.  Stal- 
linges*  men,  neither  did  he  ever  heare  say  that  the  said  com- 
plainant had  hired  any  one  or  more  of  them,  but  saith  that  at 
his  arrival  to  he  Governor  of  Virginia,  he  found  riding  at  an- 
chor in  this  River  a  shipp  wch.  the  said  Defend'  was  given  to 
understand  belonged  to  Sir  Ferdinando  gorges,  Knight,  the 
said  Stallinge  being  Capt.  thereof  which  said  shipp  soone  after 
the  arrivall  of  the  said  defend'  was  by  the  negligence  of  the  said 
stallinge  &.  company  belonging  to  her,  suffered  to  breake  from 
her  anchors  «^  in  the  night  to  runn  aground  at  a  place  called 
Bow  iers  Bay,  the  said  Stallinge  the  next  day  came  to  the  said 
Defendant  &  did  entreat  for  helpe  to  gett  off  the  said  shipp 
where  upon  the  said  Defend'  saith  he  lent  the  said  Stallinge  the 
Longe  Boat  of  the  Diana,  with  twelve  of  her  best  men  to  help  off 
the  said  shipp,  but  before  they  could  get  her  afloat  they  were 
forced  to  unloade  much  of  her  provisions  &  goods  &  by  the  di- 
rection of  the  said  Stallinge  to  carry  them  on  shore  uppon  the 
South  side  of  the  River  &  afterwards  with  great  labour  brought 
the  said  shipp  into  Southampton  River  where  the  said  Stallinge 
very  negligently  left  her  with  only  a  boy  to  pump  out  the  watter, 
the  said  shipp  being  extreme  leaky  by  reason  of  the  great  hurt 
she  tooke  in  running  on  ground  at  Bowiers  Bay,  &  he  the  said 
Stallinge  took  all  the  rest  of  the  Mariners  8c  company  to  row 
him  Si  some  others  up  the  river  where  in  his  way  putting  ashore 
at  a  place  called  Dancing  Pointe,  he  happened  to  be  slaine, 
after  whose  death  his  company  went  upp  wilh  their  lx)att  unto 
the  said  complain'  plantation,  the  said  Defendant  being  then 
above  at  Charles  Hundred  bussie  about  the  public  afiaires  of  the 
collony,  the  said  complain'  wrot  upp  to  him  &  certified  him  of 
the  death  of  the  said  Stallinge  and  how  that  his  men  Si  boatt 
weare  at  the  said  complainant's  Plantation,  whereuppon  the  said 

*  In  May.  1619.  Captain  Kdward  Stallin)?e,  commander  of  a  ship  be- 
longing to  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  was  killed  in  a  "private  quarrel" 
(or  duel  1  at  Dancing  l\)int.  Charles  City  county,  with  Captain  William 
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defend*  understanding  the  niisaccident  of  the  said  Slallinge's 
death  &  how  also  that  the  said  shipp  was  left  by  him  in  doubt  ol 
perishing,  and  that  divers  of  the  goods  &  Provisions  belonginge 
to  her  were  left  on  shore  by  the  said  Stallinge  in  hazard  of  the 
Indians  whereby  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorge  owner  of  the  said  shipp 
might  be  much  prejudiced,  he,  the  said  Defendant,  forthwith  in 
consideration  thereof,  gave  warrant  unto  Capt.  George  Bar- 
grave  and  one  John  Damerin  to  take  the  said  Stallinge* s  men 
&  Boatt  &  to  go  downe  to  Kicoughtan  &  taking  Capt.  Tucker 
then  Commander  there,  to  assist  them  to  make  a  true  Inventorie 
of  all  the  goods  &  provisions  belonging  to  the  said  shipp,  & 
also  with  the  said  Boat  &  companie  to  fech  &  bring  together  all 
things  whatsoever  that  belonged  to  the  said  shipp  &  were  by 
the  said  Stallinge  left  on  shoar,  upon  the  South  side  of  the 
River  at  Newports  Newes,  or  any  other  place  &  them  to  see 
laid  upp  in  som  house  or  Store  where  they  might  be  preserved 
for  the  use  of  the  said  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorge,  of  which  his  pro- 
ceedings the  said  defend'  saith  he  gave  notice  by  Letters  unto 
the  said  Sir  Ferdinando  entreatinge  hime  to  appoint  &  send 
over  some  one  whoe  might  receve  them  to  his  use,  which  after- 
wards the  said  Sir  Ferdinando  did  &  gave  great  thanks  to  the 
said  Defend'  for  his  care  &  paines  taken  therein  &  for  that  also 
the  said  defend'  had  employed  his  owne  people  &  boatt  in  help- 
ing to  ibring  the  goods  together  which  not  long  after  were 
delivered  unto  one  Ellis  Cornish  substituted  by  the  said  Sir  Fer- 
dinando as  doth  appear  by  a  receipt  under  the  hand  of  the  said 
Ellis,  which  the  said  Defend'  hath  to  showe,  and  the  said  defend- 
ant saith  that  the  goods  of  the  said  shipp  being  on  this  laid  upp 
as  afore  said,  he  gave  licence  unto  the  said  shipp  company  to 
dispose  of  themselves  for  their  owne  best  profitt,  wher  &  in 
what  place  they  thought  good,  some  of  whome  soone  after 
shipped  themselves  for  England,  others  for  Canada,  one  only 
whose  name  was  Stoakes,  entertained  himself  for  the  public  ser- 
vice of  the  Colony.  Moreover  the  said  Defend'  saith  that  he 
was  not  att  all  acquainted  that  the  said  complain'  had  hired  any 
one  or  more  of  them  to  serve  him  either  as  his  Servants  or  Ten- 
nants  and  saith  that  the  sd.  complaint,  did  never  give  him  any 
notice  of  any  such  agreement,  nor  did  then  or  after  require  of 
him  that  they  might  fulfill  any  covenant  or  agreement  made,  soe 


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that  he  verylie  belie veth  that  there  was  not  any  covenant  made 
at  all  betweene  the  said  complaint.  &  the  said  shipps  company, 
and  further  saith  that  if  any  such  things  were  donne  by  the  said 
complain'  as  to  hire  into  his  service  the  said  shipps  company  for 
the  plantinge  of  Tobacco  at  such  a  time  when  their  Captaine  was 
newly  slaine  &  the  shipp  &  goods  like  to  be  utterly  lost,  that 
there  was  little  respect  had  by  the  said  complaint,  to  the  damage 
that  might  thereuppon  ensue  onto  the  sd.  Ferdinando  Gorge  in 
the  losse  of  his  shipp  &  goods  which  shipp  notwithstanding  that 
all  the  care  was  taken  that  the  said  Defend'  could  devise  for  the 
speedy  sending  to  her  succour  was  sunke  in  the  River  ere  the 
Boat  could  get  downe  and  the  said  Defend*  farther  saith  that  if 
any  bargaine  or  agreement  had  been  made  between  the  said 
comp*  &  the  said  shipps  company  that  had  been  lawfull,  he 
doubteth  nott  but  the  said  comp"  would  have  required  justice 
at  that  time;  that  it  might  have  been  performed  the  which  thing 
he  never  did  either  word  or  writing. 

To  the  Fifth,  the  said  Defend'  saith  that  soone  after  his  arri- 
vall  to  be  governor,  having  occasion  for  the  public  service  to 
employ  Ensigne  Savage  *  as  an  Interpreter,  he  sent  for  him  to 
the  complain'  at  whose  Plantation  he  then  lived  &  saith  that 
after  the  said  Ensigne' s  returne,  the  like  occasion  required  the 
sendinge  of  him  againe  butt  saith  that  [he]  was  not  acquainted 
by  the  said  complainant  that  the  said  Ensigne  was  his  hired  ser- 
vant, neither  did  the  said  complain'  require  the  said  Ensigne  to 
be  sent  home  againe,  nor  did  the  said  defend'  know  that  the 
said  complaint,  had  any  occasion  to  employ  the  said  Ensigne  to 
go  abroad  in  his  shallop  &  saith  further  that  he  did  not  under- 
stand that  the  said  Ensigne  was  servant  to  the  said  complain'  or 
any  man  else,  but  as  a  public  interpreter,  yet  saith  that  if  the 
said  complainant  had  desired  to  have  made  use  of  the  said  En- 

*  Thomas,  afterwards  Ensign  Thomas  Savage,  came  to  Virginia  in 
1607,  when  thirteen  years  old,  and  in  1608  was  given  by  Newport  to 
Powhatan  in  exchange  for  an  Indian.  He  was  for  many  years  an  inter- 
preter. He  settled  on  the  Eastern  Shore,  and  died  in  or  before  1635, 
leaving  a  son,  from  whom  the  family  of  the  name  descends.  For  a 
notice  of  Thomas  Savage  and  his  descendants,  see  this  Magazine,  I. 
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signe  ^  had  acquainted  him  the  said  Defend'  therewith,  he  be- 
leeveth  he  should  have  beene  redy  to  have  shewed  him  curtisie 
therein,  for  that  at  this  time  &  afterwards,  the  said  Defend'  did 
unto  the  said  complain'  makespeciall  favors  which  as  he  thinketh 
the  said  complain'  will  be  redy  to  acknowledj^e,  one  among  the 
rest  being  the  sending  of  him  corne  when  both  he  8i  his  people 
relied  very  great  necessitie.  and  saith  farther  that  he  knoweth 
not  nor  doth  beleeve  that  the  said  complain'  had  at  that  time, 
whilest  the  said  Ensigne  was  employed  by  the  said  defend'  for 
the  public  service  of  the  colony,  any  intent  to  send  forth  his 
shallope  on  trading,  for  that  his  crop  must  have  spoiled  on  the 
ground  in  the  absence  of  his  people. 

To  the  si.xth,  the  Defendant  saith  that  the  said  complain'  was 
sent  for  to  James  Citie  by  the  general  Assembly  who  writt  him  a 
very  curteous  letter  to  that  effect,  the  copie  whereof  the  said 
Defend'  hath  to  shew  their  desier  to  commune  with  him  as  by  the 
jornall  of  the  general  Assembly  will  ap|)ere,  was  for  that  he  sent 
from  his  Plantation  two  Burgesses  to  sitt  in  the  Assembly  &  to 
have  theire  voices  there  in  the  making  of  Lawes  &  orders  for  the 
good  ^  peaceably  governing  of  the  Collony,  unto  which  Lawes 
they  the  said  Burgesses  would  not  assure  the  said  Assembly  that 
the  said  Defend'  or  any  of  the  People  that  lived  under  his  command 
would  be  obedient  unto,  but  that  he  the  said  complain'  would 
notwithstanding  any  Lawes  that  should  he  made  there  govern  & 
command  by  the  authoritie  of  his  private  Pattent  ^  strictly 
stand  uppon  the  priveleges  whereof  under  the  Protection  of 
which  said  Pattent  it  was  well  known,  to  the  Assembly  that 
there  lived  at  his  Plantation  divers  bankrout  &  indebted  persons 
with  others  of  evill  fame  which  said  persons  the  said  complaint, 
had  Si.  hath  divers  times  protected  against  the  authoritie  of  the 
public  officers  of  this  Collony  &  would  not  suffer  them  to  be 
arrested  for  theire  debtes,  but  hath  commanded  the  said  public 
officers  to  depart  his  Teritorie,  threatninge  them  otherwise  to 
lay  them  neck  Si  heeles,  whereof  the  said  public  officers  have 
com|)lained  to  the  said  defend'  as  he  will  be  sworne  &  could 
have  otherwise  more  strongly  |)roved  if  the  said  officers  were 
now  alive,  by  which  the  said  complainant  op|K)sition  <S:  resistance 
the  cape  Marchant  of  the  ould  Magazine  hath  been  forced 
to  stay  for  the  debts  of  tiu?  said  Magazine,  as  himself  being  now 


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here  is  able  to  witness.  Another  reason  of  the  C^eneral  Assem- 
blies sendinge  for  the  said  complain'  to  commune  with  him  might 
be  ^  was  concerninge  an  outrage  done  by  some  of  the  said 
complain'  people  to  certain  Indians  in  the  Bay  with  whom  we 
were  in  League  &  peace,  &  in  taking  away  by  violence  from 
them  a  certain  quantitie  of  corne  at  which  act  it  seemed  to  the 
said  Assembly  the  said  complain'  conived  Sc  complaint  beingc 
therof  made  to  the  said  defend*  by  opackanukdu  who  also  was 
complained  unto  by  the  King  on  the  Eastern  shore  to  whom 
those  people  &  the  foresaid  corne  belonged,  that  satisfaction 
might  be  made,  the  said  Assembly  thinking  the  same  but  reson 
resolved  to  move  the  said  complaint  therein. 

To  the  seventh,  the  said  Defend'  saith  that  uppon  the  day  of 
the  Massacre  the  said  Defend*  going  upp  in  his  shipp  towardes 
Flourdieu  Hundred  ik.  the  tide  takeinge  him  short  about  Capt. 
Sanders  his  Plantation  he  manned  his  boatt  &  went  on  shore  to 
search  if  any  of  the  people  might  have  been  wounded,  whom  he 
might  have  saved  and  recovered,  but  searching  the  ground  find- 
ing none,  it  guowing  fowardes  to  night  he  retired  to  his  ship 
purposing  to  send  downe  his  boates  the  next  day  to  have  saved 
the  corne  which  lay  in  Capt.  Sanders  his  house  with  any  other 
goodes  which  might  have  been  found  of  worth  to  have  been 
brought  thence,  the  necessity  &  danger  of  the  Defend*  own  plan- 
tation not  permitting  at  that  time  his  longer  stay  there,  but  the 
next  day  he  had  certaine  newes  that  the  houses  and  all  things 
else  therein  were  burnt  he  also  saith  that  he  doth  not  know  of 
anything  that  was  brought  thence,  save  some  poultrie  that  was 
brought  from  the  roast  at  one  Taylor's  house  a  dweller  there, 
together  with  a  sow  which  he  the  said  Defend'  gave  unto  the 
master  of  the  said  shipp  upon  his  request  thereof  as  also  one 
chest  wherein  as  neere  as  he  can  remember  was  about  sixty 
weight  of  very  ill  conditioned  Tobacco,  which  he  the  said  Defendt. 
bestoyed  upon  the  marriners.  purposing  to  pay  for  the  said  sow 
and  Tobacco  which  he  the  said  Defend*  might  as  he  thought  well 
doe  in  regard  the  said  Capt.  Sanders  died  indebted  to  him,  the 
summ  of  eighteen  pound  stirlinge  as  will  appere  by  a  bill  of  the 
said  Capt.  Sanders'  hand  which  the  said  Defend'  hath  to  shew, 
he  saith  also  that  the  marriners  did  throw  some  small  trumpery 
into  the  boat,  things  of  litel  or   no    value,  the  Indians  having 


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carried  away  all  other  things  as  it  should  seeme  by  their  strewing 
of  old  chestes  &  barrelles  about  the  fielde  but  weather  there 
were  at  the  said  Capt.  Sanders  Plantation  any  goods  at  all  belong- 
ing to  the  said  complainant  the  said  Defendant  saith  he  knoweth 
not  nor  did  he  see  or  perceive  that  any  thing  was  brought  thence 
by  any  of  his  people  save  one  young  calf  which  died  in  the  shipp 
and  was  throwne  overbord  before  he  got  up  to  Flourdieu  hundred, 
and  farther  saith  that  if  the  said  complain'  can  prove  that  any 
thing  was  by  him  the  said  Defend'  or  by  any  other  with  his  allow- 
ance brought  thence  he  will  be  ready  to  make  present  satisfaction 
for  the  same  to  the  right  owners  thereof.  Moreover  the  said 
Defend'  saith  that  he  hath  heard  that  non  of  the  goods  of  the 
said  complaint,  were  at  the  Plantation  of  the  said  Capt.  Sanders, 
but  were  left  by  him  the  said  complain'  at  his  departure  for  Eng- 
land in  his  owne  dwelling  houses  which  were  about  a  mielle  dis- 
tant from  the  said  Plantation  Sc  where  the  said  Defend'  saith  that 
neither  he  or  any  of  his  people  ever  came  at  that  time  or  since 
the  massacre  and  therefore  the  said  Complain'  shall  doe  him  wrong 
if  he  accuse  him  of  bringing  anything  thence  where  neither  he 
nor  any  of  his  came. 

To  the  Eighth,  the  Defendant  saith  that  untill  this  time  he  never 
heard  of  any  such  thing  but  saith  that  he  hath  latly  spoken  with 
Ensign  Chaplaine  &  then  certified  him  of  His  demande  of  the 
complain'  who  told  him  the  whole  \_Sic,  but  should  be  **he 
would  "]  take  his  oath  that  there  was  never  any  agreement  made 
between  him  &  the  said  Complain'  that  two  Kine  should  be 
delivered  to  the  said  Ensyne  for  Sattisfaction  of  the  said  Complain" 
bond  Si  said  that  he  never  demanded  any  Kine  of  Capt.  Sanders, 
nor  did  Capt.  Saunders  at  any  time  make  proffer  to  deliver  him 
any,  whereby  it  is  not  likely  that  the  said  Defend'  did  Command 
Capt.  Saunders  the  Contrary. 

To  the  ninth  &  last,  the  Defend'  saith  that  untill  this  time  he 
never  heard  of  any  sRich  thinge  but  saithe  that  Lieut.  Peppett 
being  now  in  this  Cittie  it  may  please  the  Governor  Sc  Councill 
to  examine  him  thereof. 

Ent.  p.         John  Southerne  [Clk.  Council.] 


[Enclosure  in  Letter  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council  &  company 
of  Virginia.     4  Feb'y,  1624-5.] 


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State  Paper  Office,  Colonial  Vol.  3,  No.  36,  II,  III. 

Orders  uppon  the  demande  of  Capt.  John  Martin,  Esq.,  from 
Sir  George  Yeardley,  Knight.  At  James  cittie,  Virginia, 
the  27th  of  Dec',  1624.  Present:  Sir  F'rancis  Wyatt, 
Knight,  Gov',  Capt.  Francis  AVest,  Sir  George  Yeardley, 
Knight,  Mr.  George  Sandys,  Treas',  Mr.  Doctor  Pott, 
Capt.  Roger  Smith,  Capt.  Raphe  Hamor. 

To  the  First  &  Fifth  demandes  of  Capt.  Martin  concerning 
Sir  George,  it  is  referred  until  the  coming  up  of  Ensigne  Sav- 
age. 

To  the  Seconde  it  is  ordered  that  Sir  George  Yeardley  shall 
take  his  oath  to  the  latter  parte  of  his  answer  to  the  seconde 
demande  which  Sir  George  took  accordinglie. 

To  the  third  demande  the  court  conceiveth  not  that  Mr.  Luke 
Boyse  receaved  the  Cattle  by  any  order  or  warrant  from  Sir 
George  and  therefore  he  is  not  liable  to  damages  for  the  same. 

To  the  Fourth  demande.  Sir  John  [George]  having  taken  his 
oath  that  he  knows  not  that  the  said  Stallinge's  men  were  the 
hired  servants  of  Capt.  Martin  or  that  ever  Capt.  Martin  to  his 
utmost  remembrance  did  ever  require  them  of  him,  &  Capt. 
Martin  confessing  that  he  doth  not  precisely  remember  whether 
ever  he  demanded  them  of  Sir  George  or  not.  The  court  con- 
ceaveth  that  Sir  George  is  not  liable  to  give  him  Satisfaction 
for  the  said  pretended  servants  demanded. 

To  the  sixth  demand  it  is  referred  to  the  Gen'l  Assembly, 
being  an  act  of  a  Gen'l  Assembly  in  Sir  George  Yeardley* s 
time. 

To  the  seventh  demand  it  is  ordered  that  Capt.  Martin  shall 
bring  in  his  proofe  of  such  things  as  were  taken  away  from 
Capt.  Saunder's  home  by  Sir  George  or  any  by  his  appointment 
more  then  himself  confesseth  in  this  answer. 

To  the  eighth  demand  Ensigne  Isacke  Chapline  upon  oath 
doth  deny  that  there  was  any  such  agreement  as  that  he  should 
receave  any  such  two  cattle  of  Capt.  Saunders  for  sattisfaction 
of  Capt.  Martin's  debt  or  that  Capt.  Saunders  made  any  such 
tender  to  him,  nor  is  there  any  proofe  to  the  contrarye,  and  we 
conceave  the  warrant  of  Sir  George  &  the  councill  to  be  just  & 
lawfull. 


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To  the  nynthe  demand  it  appeareth  by  oath  not  to  concearne 
Sir  George  but  that  Lieut.  Peppett  is  liable  to  make  Sattisfac- 
tion  to  whom  of  right  the  said  peece  shall  belong  to. 


The  Copie  of  Sir  Geo.  Yeardley*s  &   the  Counsele's 

Warrant. 

Whereas  Capt  John  Martin,  of  Martin  Brandon,  Esquire,  at 
his  late  departure  from  hence  for  England,  did  leave  in  the  cus- 
tody of  Lieut.  Edmunde  Sanders  seaventeene  head  of  cattle, 
viz:  Seaven  Milche  kyne,  one  bull,  three  two  Yearlings  three 
Yearlinges  &  three  suckinge  calves,  which  cattle  remain  in  con- 
troversie  between  him  the  said  Capt.  John  Martin  &  Mr.  John 
Bargrave,  of  Patricksbourne,  in  Kent,  Esquire,  being  well  pur- 
suaded  of  the  integritie  &  honestie  of  the  said  Lieut.  Edmunde 
Saunders  &  finding  him  to  be  the  fittest  man  for  that  purpose, 
we  hereby  approve  &  consigne  to  him  the  custodie  of  the  said 
cattle,  either  until  the  said  Capt.  Jonn  Martin's  returne  into  Vir- 
ginia, or  till  the  said  controversie  be  ended  between  him  Sc  the 
said  John  Bargrave.  In  witness  whereof  we  have  to  these  pres- 
ents sett  our  hands.  Given  at  James  Citie,  May  the  3rd,  1622. 
George  Yeardley,  George  Thorpe,  Nath.  Powles,  Tho.  Nuce. 
John  pory,  Secry. 

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1777.  Dec.  20.  Broadnax,  Capt.  Edward,  for  pay  of  his 
2d  Lieut.     (See  Acco'  sett**  29th  Sept.  last),  6.  16.  2. 

Bateman,  Jethro,  for  Cart  hire  with  Nansemond  Militia,  ^ 
acco',  jCi.  17.  6. 

24.  Barrott.  Smith,  Serjeant,  for  pay  of  self  &  Guard  on  Sea 
Shore,  ^  acco',  17.  15.  4. 

26.  Brown,  Samuel,  for  pay  as  Commissary  from  8th  Aug. 
to  Nov'  15th,  1776,  f^  acco',  15.  — .  — . 

1778.  Jan'y  8.  Brown,  Daniel,  for  provisions  furnished  the 
Kentucky  Militia,  ^  acco',  8.  4.  5. 


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19.  Bledsoe,  Anthony,  for  Ditto  for  the  Cherokee  Expedi- 
tion, ^  acco*,  24.  14.  4. 

Ditto,  for  Sundry  services  ^  payroll,  294.  18.  8. 

23.  Bates,  Capt.  John,  for  difference  of  pay  for  his  2d  Lieut, 
(see  acco*  Sept.  27th  last),  6.  14.  — . 

Feb'  2.  Bowman,  Col.  John,  for  pay,  &c.,  for  the  Kentuckey 
Militia,  ^  acco*,  2,723.  — .  — . 

23.  Beale,  William,  Lieut.,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  a  detach'  of 
Richmond  Militia,  "p  acco*,  31.  8.  — . 

March  2.  Biscoe,  William,  for  of  Guards  of  Lancaster  Mili- 
tia, f>  acco';  5.  — .  — . 

17.  Barron,  Capt.  Richard,  for  ferriage  of  Lunenburg  Ditto 
to  Portsmouth,  ^  acco*,  2.  10.  — . 

21.  Burton,  Col.  John,  for  pay.  &c.,  of  sundry  Guards  of 
North"  Militia,  '^  acco*,  292.  — .  11. 

Barnett,  James,  for  bal*^  p**  on  reins,  horsehire,  &c. ,  for  Ken- 
tucky Exped",  '^  acco',  34.  2.  6. 

27.  Booker,  Capt.  William,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'  of  Norfolk 
Co.  Militia,  "^  acco',  82.  14.  5. 

April    21.     Burk,   Arnold,  pay  as  a  guard  in   Gloster,  Do., 

Bell,  David,  5  head  of  cattle,  Augusta  Militia,  Do.,  29.  — .  — . 
May  8.     Ball,   Capt.  James,  for  pay  Lancaster  Militia,  Do., 
4.  3.  6. 

11.  Barrett,  Wm.,  for  Ferriages,  5.  3.  6. 

12.  Ball,  Lieut.  James,  for  pay  Lancast'  Militia,  8.  8.  4. 

20.  Brvant,  Ensign  Wm.,  for  pay  of  a  Guard  over  Jno. 
Goodrich,  S',  21.  11.  4. 

21.  Buford,  James,  for  Sundry  persons  for  diets,  &c.,  to  Bed- 
ford Militia,  8.  6.  9. 

22.  Bose,  Thomas,  for  a  Rifle  for  Capt.  Peter  Perkins's  Co., 

3.  9.  — • 

28.  Bledsoe,  Ant*,  for  sundries  for  Washington  Militia,  434. 

12.  — . 

June  I.  Bustin,  Levin,  for  pay  of  a  (}uard  in  Accomack,  4. 
8.  — . 

15.  Billups,  Capt.  Rich'*,  for  pay  of  his  Comp^  C}loster  Mili- 
tia, 36.  5.  — . 


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29.  Boiling  &  Tabb,  ^  acco'  flour  for  Capt.  Rogers'  Com' 
Militia,  2.  2.  — . 

July  2.  Belts,  William,  for  pay  Northumb"*  Militia,  guarding 
canoes,  2.  19.  4. 

Bacon,  Edmund,  for  Shoats  furnished  Amherst  Militia,  ^ 
Cert.,  5.  12.  6. 

30.  Brookes,  Ch',  additional  pay  for  waggon  hire  (see  vouchers 
Apr.  last),  10.  — .  — . 

Aug^*'  II.  Barker,  Joseph,  for  Corn  for  Augusta  Militia,  ^ 
Cert.,  6.  — .  — . 

26.  Bartee,  Lieut.  John,  for  Pay  of  his  Comp'y  Norfolk  Mili- 
tia, 22.  5.  7. 

Sep'  II.  Booker,  Lieut.  Lewis,  for  Do.  of  Gloster  Militia, 
6.  18.  8. 

Oct.  6.  Bott,  Col°  John,  for  Bair  of  guns,  Chesterfield  Mili- 
tia, ^  acco',  ;^2i.  3.  — . 

7.  Brown,  James,  for  a  rifle  gun  for  ye  Indian  Exped",  ^ 
Cert.,5.  — .  — . 

9.  Brown,  James,  for  Pay  as  Commissary  to  Kentucky  Mili- 
tia, Cert.,  164.  5.  6. 

Bain,  Alexander,  for  Bacon  f 'rnish*  Do.  Do.,  '^  Do.,  3.  15.  — . 

13.  Benson,  Henry,  for  Beef  furnish**  the  garrison  at  Ken- 
tucky, 1777,  ^  Cert.,  I.  15.  10. 

14.  Boggs,  Wm.,  for  Provision  for  Accomack  Militia,  13. 
6.  7. 

19.  Birkerdike,  Ensign,  for  pay  of  his  com'  Norfolk  MiHtia 
at  Portsmouth,  ^  Cert.,  22.  3.  4. 

Nov.  12.  Bronaugh,  Capt.  Will",  for  pay  of  his  com'  of 
King  George  Militia,  35.  17.  i. 

18.  Boyd,  John,  for  pay  as  a  spye  in  Montgomerie  county, 
"^  Cert.,  7.  10.  — . 

20.  Buchanan,  Capt.  William,  for  pay  of  his  Com'  Mont- 
gom'  Militia  station' d  at  Kentucky,  ^  Pay  Roll,  1,034.  ^o.  — . 

21.  Brakenridge,  George,  for  horsehire  Cherokee  Exped", 
f  Cert.,  8.  — .  — . 

Bowman,  Col°  John,  for  pay  of  himself  &  sundry  comp''  of 
militia  stationed  at  Kentucky  &  for  Provisions,  &c.,  ^  vouchers, 
6,181.  3.  5. 


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Brown,  James,  Commissary  for  Provisions  to  Kentucky  Mili- 
tia, ^  acco*  &  Cert.,  285.  15.  — . 

24.  Buchanan,  Lieut.  John,  for  pay  of  his  com*  of  Washing- 
ton Militia  station ',d  on  the  Frontier,  ^  Certe.,  64.  13.  3. 

25.  Bowman,  Capt.  Joseph,  for  Pay  of  his  Com'^  of  F'reder- 
ick  Militia  sent  to  the  Illinois  under  Col*  G.  R.  Clark.  ^  Roll 
&  Cert.,  £^35,  —.11. 

Do.,  Do.,  for  Carriages  of  Salt  Kettles  &  for  Provisions,  &c., 
for  his  company  as  above,  '^  Cert.,  86.  12.  — . 

26.  Boone,  Majpr  Daniel,  for  horse  hire  &  powder  for  Boones- 
borough  garrison,  ^  acco*  &  Cert..  123.  3.  — . 

Dec.  4.  Boone,  John,  for  riding  Express  in  Washington  Co^ 
"^  Cert..  I.  5.  -. 

5.  Bledsoe,  Anthony,  for  sundry  persons.  Waggon  hire,  &c. , 
for  the  Cherokee  Expedition,  ^  Cert.,  168.  6.  7. 

15.  Do.,  for  Provision,  horse  hire,  &c.,  Cherokee  Expedi- 
tion, f^  Cert.,  84.  2.  6. 

1776.  Dec.  26.  Coleman,  Charles,  for  one  Gun  sold  Capt. 
Jas.  Anderson  for  his  Mint.  Comp',  5.  — .  — . 

30.  Carter,  Doct' James,  for  Wood,  straw,  &c.,  furnished  the 
Militia,  10.  — .  — . 

31.  Camp,  William,  for  Corn,  &c.,  for  Capt.  Posey  in  the 
Minute  service,  — .  5.  5. 

1777.  Jan'  6.  Cole.  Capt.  Abraham,  for  pay,  forage  &  Ra- 
tions of  his  comp-'  of  Militia  to  25  Dec'  inclus.,  98.  15.  5. 

7.     Cocke,  Capt.  John,  for  pay,  &c..  Do.,  Surry  Militia,  26. 

9.8. 

18.  Cherry,  Theophilus,  for  Wood  furnished  the  Garrison  at 
Portsmouth,  7.  10.  — . 

Jan*  20.  Cowles,  Thomas,  for  ferriages  to  Capt.  Walkers 
Comp^  of  Volunteers.  £ — .  16.  — . 

22.  Corprews,  Capt.  Geo.  D.,  for  pay  and  forage  for  his  Com. 
Militi'  at  Portsm"'  to  Dec'  27th,  69.  i.  8. 

28.  Cary.  Richard,  for  2  pair  of  Blankets  &  a  Rug  pur- 
chased, 6.  II.  — . 

Fel/  4.  Carr,  Capt.  Joshua,  for  pay  forage  <S:  Rations  of 
Nansem**  Militia  to  Jan*"  last,  41.  16.  7!^. 

5.  Coles,  Capt.  Abraham,  for  Do.  Do.  Dij.,  and  waggon 
hire,  63.  4.  2»j. 


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Ditto,  Do.,  for  Do.  ol  his  Volunteer  Comp'  to  Feb^  3d  inclus., 
118.  II.  — . 

6.  Collins,  William,  for  provisions  to  Capt.  Wm.  McClana- 
han's  Comp\  i.  4.  6. 

7.  Cardwell,  George,  for  Waggon  hire  on  the  Chereokee  Ex- 
pedition &  waggon  Cloth,  34.  8.  6. 

20.  Cherry,  Theophilus,  for  10  Cords  of  Wood  for  the  Gar- 
rison at  Portsmouth,  5.  — .  — . 

21.  Cannon,  John,  Lieut,  of  Princess  Anne  Militia,  for  pay  & 
forage  to  the  26  Dec'  last,  45.  6.  6. 

Churchill,  William,  for  Cart  hire  Capt.  Dillard's  Minute  Comp', 
— .  12.  6. 

27.  Cocke,  James,  for  Cart  hire  to  Hampton  for  Charles  City 
Militia,  2.  — .  — . 

Cole,  Capt.  Abram,  for  pay,  Rations  &  forage  of  his  Comp' 
to  2ist  Ins*,  85.  12.  9. 

Mar.  6.  Carsey,  Edward,  for  one  Rifle  for  Capt.  Roger 
Thompson's  Comp'  by  his  Cert.,  3.  — .  — . 

13.  Clarke,  Capt.  Zachariah,  for  pay  &  Rations  for  his  Comp^ 
as  "^  pay  roll,  217.  4.  — . 

Ditto,  for  4  guns,  £11.     Carting  &c.,  ;^i3.  17.     24.  17.  — . 

18.     Carter,  Dr.  James,  for  Wood  furnished  the  Militia,  /^ — . 

7.  — • 

21.  Collier,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  pay  forage  &  rations  of  his 
Min*  Comp^  to  Sep'  16  incl.,  229.  3.  8*i>. 

22.  Colly,  William,  for  his  &  2  negroes  Work  on  the  Barricks 
Ports»*^  14.  5.  — . 

Culpeper,  Sampson,  for  13  days  Work  at  Fort  Stephen,   2. 
12.  — . 
24.     Culpeper,  John  Sc  others,  for  Ditto  Do.  &  Barracks,  53. 

5.  9. 

Calloway,  Zachariah,  for  pay  as  Armourer  &  Assistant  on 
Cherokee  Exped",  20.  10.  — . 

27.  Cluverius,  Capt.  Gibson,  for  pay  &  rations  &  provisions 
of  his  Comp^  Gloster  Militia  to  Mar.  loth,  170.  3.  — . 

28.  Carr,  Capt.  Joshua,  for  pay  &  rations  of  his  Comp^ 
Nansem*^  Militia  to  nth  of  March,  132.  15.  — . 

Cole,  Abraham,  for  31  days  Waggon  &  Team  at  los,  15.  10.  — . 


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April  3.  Cowper,  Edward,  for  5^  Cord  of  Wood  furnished 
the  Militia  at  Hampton.  2.  15.  — . 

4.  Cary,  Robert  Lieut.,  for  pay  &  rations  of  his  Comp- 
guard'  Powder  Glos'  Co'',  75.  12.  5. 

8.  Cowling,  John,  for  19  Cord  of  Wood  for  the  Garrison  at 
Hampton,  9.  10.  — . 

14.  Cary,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'  Warrick 
Militia  in  Feb'  &  Mar.  last,  51.  10.  11. 

19.     Cason,  Seth,  for  i  gun  delivered  Capt.  Thomas  Hallow, 

4-  5.  — • 

22.  Christian,  Col.  William,  for  pay  &c.  on  Cherokee  Expedi- 
tion ^  acco*,  123.  7.  2. 

May  6.  Cooper,  Row,  for  pay  as  Major  of  Eliz.  City  Militia 
&  Wood^  Do.,  30.  8.  2. 

Chowning,  William,  for  provisions  furn"*  Lancas'  Min*  Men  do., 

1.  10.  II. 

9.  Carr,  Capt.  Joshua,  for  pay  of  a  guard  ^  acco',  6.  7.  4. 

16.  Conway,  Thomas,  for  pay  of  a  Detachment  Min'  Men, 

2.  10.  8. 

17.  Cook,  William,  for  damage  done  a  gun,  — .  5.  — . 
Crew,  James,  for  pay  as  Drummer,  j^i,  i.  8. 
Chaffing,  Joshua,  for  pay  as  Fifer,  i.  3.  4. 
Childers,  Benjamin,  Do.  Drummer,  1.  15.  — . 
Chaffing,  John,  Do.  Do.,  i.  6.  8. 
Claiborne,  John,  for  pay  of  5  fifers  for  Char- 
lotte Militia,  1.  10.  — . 

Clay,    Edward,    fof  Waggonage   of   Salt   on 
Cherokee  Exped",  2.  3.  9. 

21.  CoUis,  Thomas,  for  furnished  Prince  Wm.  Militia  (See 
Lethgow's  Ace'),  i.  19.  — . 

Christian,  Capt.  Gilbert,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'  Do.  to  the  ist 
Instant,  208.  10.  9. 

Campbell,  Capt.  John,  for  Do.  &  Rations  for  18  Men  4  days 
to  7th  Do.,  42.  18.  4. 

Campbell,  Arthur,  for  pay  &  rations  as  Col.  of  Washington 
county  to  6th  of  Ap'  last,  14.  9.  7. 

24.  Cluverius,  Benjamin,  for  Plank  furnished  for  Gloster  Bat- 
tery, ^  acco*,  20.  3.  — . 

26.  Clarke,  Capt.  Zachariah,  for  pay  of  his  Guard  at  Hanover 
Magazine  to  7  June,  220.  7.  — . 


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27.  Christian,  Col.  William,  for  pay  as  a  Comm'  &  sundry 
expences  treat*  with  the  Cherokees  &c.,  including  ;^8i  allowed 
Col.  Wm.  Preston  as  a  Comm'  (to  this  day)  478.  12.  6. 

Christian,  Col.  William,  for  services  as  a  Comm'  treating  with 
the  Cherokees  Jan^  7  last,  37,  16.  — . 

30.  Camp,  Capt.  John,  for  pay  &  rations  of  his  Comp'  Glos- 
ter  Militia  to  Feb'  11  last,  12.  14.  — . 

June  2.  Cole,  William,  for  26  days  work  of  a  negro  brick- 
layer at  Portsmouth  at  4s,  j(^s-  4-  — • 

Chowning,  William,  for  Provisions  furnished  a  Guard  in 
Lancas^  Co^'  f.  acco',  — .  17.  6. 

4.  Christian,  Col.  William,  for  attend*^  on  Indians  &  for  others 
^  acco\  31.  3.  — . 

10.  Coke,  Robey,  for  helving  Axes  for  the  use  of  the  Militia 
in  Williamsburg,  — .  14.  6. 

12.  Claughton,  Capt.  Pemberton,  for  use  of  Guns  &  hunt* 
shirts  &  leggings  for  9  of  his  Comp',  20.  13.  6. 

13.  Cosby,  Wingfield,  for  a  Gun  furnished  for  Capt.  James 
Dabneys  Min'  Comp',  4.  — .  — . 

14.  Cock,  William,  for  self  &  sundry  Persons  for  Provisions 
&c.  furnished,  57.  14.  2. 

17.  Collie,  Charles,  for  14  days  pay  as  packhorse  driver  on 
Cherokee  Exped"  (p'd  P.  Perkins),  2.  2.  — . 

25.  Cunningham,  William,  for  sundry  Persons  for  Work  on 
the  Fort  at  Hampton  "^  acco*,  255.  19.  10. 

Cary,  John,  for  30  pine  Trees  furnished  for  the  Battery  at 
Hampton,  15.  — .  — . 

26.  Colley,  William,  for  Work  on  the  Fort  at  Portsmouth 
(See  Hardress  Waller),  5.  — .  — . 

Cooper,  Arthur,  for  Ditto  Ditto  (Ditto),  2.  15.  — . 
Cremer,  William,  for  Ditto  Ditto  (Ditto),  2.  15.  — . 

27.  Cooke,  Thomas,  for  Carrying  Powder  from  W"*burg  to 
Fort  Pitt  &  Express  f>  Cert.,  20.  — .  — . 

28.  Calloway,  Zachariah,  for  two  Gun  Locks  ^  acco'  &  Cer\ 
/I.  8.  -. 

July  12.  Cary  &  Randolph,  for  Bread  furnished  the  Chester- 
field Militia  f^  acco*,  6.  9.  — . 

29.  Cowley,  Capt.  Abraham,  for  pay  Si  rations  to  the  Guard 
at  Richmond  to  20th  Ins'  incl**,  100.  19.  4. 


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Sep'  2.     Cameron,  Daniel,  for  eight  days  pay  as  a  Militia  Man 
to  the  30th  Aug.,  — .  10.  8. 

3.     Cocke,  Capt.  John  H.,  for  pay  &  rations  of  his  Comp"^  o 
Surry  Militia  ^  acco*,  69.  15.  11. 

5.      Comer,  John,  for  a  Gun  furnished  Capt.  Tho.   Bartlets 
Militia  Comply  ^  Cer\  2.  15.  — . 

8.     Craig,  John,  for  Waggon  hire  with   Spotsylvania  Militia 
^  ace',  II.  — .  — . 

Crutchfield,  Stapleton,  for  Bacon  furnished  Ditto  1^  acco',  45. 
7.6. 

(TO    BE   CONTINUED.) 


Papers  Relating  to  the  Administration  of  Governor 

Nicholson  and  to  the  Founding  of  William 

and  Mary  College. 


[A  manuscript  volume  in  the  collection  of  the  Virginia  His- 
torical Society  has  the  following  on  the  first  page: 

*  *  Papers  concerning  a  difference  between  Govornor  Nichol- 
son and  some  of  the  Council,  also  concerning  the  College  of 
William  &  Mary,  copied  from  documents  in  the  Archives  of  the 
State  of  New  York  (Volume  LI). 

**  Presented  to  the  Historical  Society  of  Virginia  by  their  cor- 
responding member, 

•*  B.  Fernow. 

•*  Albany,  Nov.  i,  ^82." 

These  papers  consist  of  letters  between  Francis  Nicholson, 
Governor  of  Virginia,  and  Rev.  James  Blair,  the  chief  agent  in 
the  founding  of  William  and  Mary  College,  and  its  first  presi- 
dent, various  depositions,  proceedings  of  the  Council  and  House 
of  Burgesses,  and  other  papers  bearing  on  the  history  of  the 
period,  1692-1705,  and  especially  on  the  differences  between 
Nicholson  and  Blair,  and  the  same  (}overnor  and  the  Council. 
They  were  probably  collected  by  Nicholson  as  a  history  and  de- 
fence of  his  administration,  and  various  documents  have  been 
annotated  by  him.  Nicholson  was  utterly  unscrupulous  in  re- 
gard to  the  charges  he  made — indeed  no  great  importance 
should  be  attached  to  any  defamation  of  that  period.     A  char- 


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acteristic  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries,  which 
all  students  of  the  time  are  aware  of,  is  the  curious  absence  of 
any  sense  of  responsibility  or  regard  for  the  truth,  when  an 
enemy  was  to  be  attacked.  Cases  occur  repeatedly  in  the  court 
records  of  the  period,  not  only  in  the  Colonies  but  in  England, 
where  a  man  would  make  most  scurrilous  charges,  and  then, 
when  brought  to  trial,  promptly  and  publicly  confess  that  all  of 
his  statements  were  false.  Notwithstanding  this  fact  these  notes 
will  be  printed  in  full,  except  in  a  few  instances  where  the  lan- 
guage is  too  indecent  for  our  pages. 

Francis  Nicholson  (1660- 17 28),  who  was  knighted  after  he 
left  Virginia,  entered  the  English»army  in  early  life,  and  in  1686, 
was  appointed  Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  York,  where  he 
became  very  unpopular.  Deserting  his  post  at  the  time  of  an 
insurrection,  he  returned  to  England,  and  was  not  long  after 
appointed  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Virginia,  taking  his  seat  Oc- 
tober 16,  1690.  During  his  first  administration  he  created  a 
very  favorable  impression,  and  showed  much  interest  in  the  wel- 
fare of  the  Colony,  and  especially  in  the  establishment  of  a  col- 
lege. He  was  relieved  by  Andros  October  15,  1693,  ^"^  *" 
January,  1694,  was  appointed  Governor  of  Maryland.  Hjere, 
again,  as  in  New  York,  he  made  himself  very  unacceptable,  and 
was  removed,  becoming  again,  unfortunately  for  Virginia,  Gov- 
ernor of  this  Colony  December  9,  1698.  This  administration 
was  a  continued  contest  with  the  Burgesses,  the  Council,  the 
vestries,  and  Dr.  Blair.  If  half  the  charges  of  his  injustice, 
oppression  and  violence  were  true,  he  was  at  times  evidently 
quite  mad.  The  best  known  and  most  picturesque  instance  is 
that  of  his  courtship  of  Miss  Burwell,  during  which  he  threat- 
ened wholesale  slaughter  of  all  who*" might  in  any  way  prevent 
him  from  winning  the  lady.  At  last  he  was  removed  by  the 
King  in  April,  1705.  For  fifteen  years  after  he  left  Virginia  he 
was  engaged  in  military  service,  and  in  17 19  was  appointed 
Governor  of  South  Carolina,  where  he  is  stated  to  have  some- 
what retrieved  his  reputation.     He  died  March  5,  1728. 

James,  Blair,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Scotland  (it  is  believed  in 
Edinburg),  in  1656,  and  was  educated  at  one  of  the  Scotch  Uni- 
versities. In  1685,  Bishop  Compton  of  London,  sent  him  to  Vir- 
ginia, and  for  nine  years  he  was  minister  of  Henrico  parish.     In 


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1689  he  was  appointed  Commissary  of  the  Bishop  of  London. 
Being  *'  deeply  affected  with  the  low  state  of  both  learning  and  re- 
ligion "  in  Virginia,  he  became  greatly  interested  in  the  establish- 
ment of  a  college  in  the  Colony,  and  set  on  foot  a  subscription 
which  soon  amounted  to  ^2,500.  Ciovernor  Nicholson  actively 
supported  the  project  before  the  Assembly  of  1691,  and  Blair 
was  sent  to  England  to  obtain  royal  support  and  a  charter,  which 
was  granted.  It  was  dated  February  14,  1692,  and  Dr.  Blair 
was  chosen  President  of  the  College.  There  is  no  space  here 
to  enter  into  any  account  of  Blair's  frequent  disputes  and  long 
wrangles  with  Andros.  Nicholson  and  Spotswood,  and  with  va- 
rious private  individuals.  Bishop  Burnet,  who  knew  him,  says 
(History  of  His  ihim  Times)  he  was  '*a  worthy  and  good 
man."  Whitfield,  in  his  diary  under  date  December  15,  1740, 
writes:  *'  Paid  my  respects  to  Mr.  Blair,  Commissary  of  Vir- 
ginia. His  discourse  was  savoury,  such  as  tended  to  the  use  of 
edifying.'*  Dr.  Blair  was  the  author  of  a  work  on  '*Our  Sav- 
iour's Divine  Sermon  on  the  Mount,"  4  vols.,  1722.  It  went 
through  several  editions  and  has  been  highly  commended.  He 
was  long  member  of  the  Council,  and  as  President  of  that  body 
was  Acting  Governor  of  Virginia  from  June,  1740  to  July  25, 
1 741.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  of 
'*  Wakefield,"  Surry  county,  and  died  April  18,  1743,  leaving 
no  issue.  By  will  he  left  ;^500  and  his  library  to  th^  college, 
and  ^10,000  to  his  nephew  John  Blair,  afterwards  President  of 
the  Council.  Dr.  Blair's  epitaph  is  printed  in  Vol.  XI,  Va. 
Hist.  Collections,  p.  9^2^ 

Much  information  in  regard  to  Nicholson's  administrations, 
Dr.  Blair,  and  founding  of  the  College  is  contained  in  Perry's 
Historical  Collection,  American  Colonial  Church,  Vol.  I — Vir- 
ginia. See  also  Meade's  Old  Churches  and  Families  of  Virginia, 
I,  I49ri65;  Charges  of  Members  of  the  Council  Against  Gov- 
ernor Nicholson  (  Va.  Mag.,  Ill,  373-382);  Instructions  to  Nich- 
olson {Virginia  Magazine,  IV,  49);  Proceedings  of  Visitors 
of  William  and  Mary  College  (  Va,  Mag.,  1 61-175);  Burning  of 
William  and  Mary,  1705  (  Va.  Mag.,  VI,  271-277);  Early  Pres- 
idents of  William  and  Mary  (  William  and  Mary  Quarterly,  I, 
63-75);  Character  of  Instruction  of  William  and  Mary  (lb.,  VI, 
176-187);  Students  at  William  and  Mary  in  1764  (lb.,  VI,  187- 


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1 88);  Journal  of  the  Meetings  of  the  President  and  Masters  of 
William  and  Mary  (/^.,  I,  130,  214;  II,  50,  122,  208,  256;  III, 
60;  128.  195,  256;  IV,  43j:  Papers  Relating  to  the  Founding  of 
the  College,  from  the  British  Public  Record  Office  (lb.,  VII, 
158-174),  and  The  Historical  Catalogue,  1859,  1874.  There  is 
in  the  Virginia  State  Library  a  copy  of  the  edition  of  1859,  with 
many  manuscript  additions  by  Prof.  R.  L.  Morrison. 

The  captions  of  the  papers  in  square  brackets  have  been  added 
by  the  Editor.  Nicholson's  notes  have  been  placed  in  quota- 
tions.] 

Memorandi'm  for  the  Bishops  of  London. 

1.  To  ask  advice  concerning  the  quakers  how  we  shall  man- 
age them  ?     [See  note  at  end  of  article.] 

2.  Concerning  the  Ministers  that  wont  take  the  Oath  of  Alle- 
giance to  king  Wm.  &  Mary  &  Some  that  Won't  pray  for  them 
by  name. 

3.  Concerning  dissenting  Ministers  &  schoo'Hyi asters  whether 
to  be  tolerated  ? 

4.  How  far  Ecclesiastical  Goverm't  &  discipline  shall  be 
executed  ? 

5.  To  take  advice  about  Ministers  Salary  ?  To  procure  Instruct* 
from  their  Maj'**^  about  it,  &  if  their  Maj"*^'  grant  any  fav"  to  the 
Country  that  at  the  same  time  they  may  demand  some  thing  to 
be  done  for  the  Clergy.  If  any  thing  be  done  this  way  by  an 
Imposition  on  Tobacco,  except  the  same  be  in  Maryland  & 
Carolina  the  Country  cant  comply  with  it. 

6.  Concerning  the  smallness  of  many  parishes  &  the  badness 
of  the  pay. 

7.  Concerning  the  ministers  neglecting  the  dutys  of  catechising. 
Administering  the  Sacrament  «&  burials,  confirmation  ^  consecra- 
tion of  churches. 

8.  In  Maryland  &  North  Carolina  &  some  remote  parts  of 
Virgina  whether  any  encouragement  might  be  allowed  to  itinerant 
ministers? 

9.  Concerning  a  Commissary  that  it  is  absolutely  necessary  to 
have  one  to  inspect  the  Clergy,  tho'  he  cant  do  all  at  once,  to 
try  to  get  a  salary  ascertained  for  him  out  of  the  Quit  Rents  at 


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least  a  hundred  pound  p.  ann.  where  he  must  leave,  whether 
near  the  College. 

10.  of  the  great  scarcity  of  Ministers  &  schoolmasters.  En- 
quire concerning  the  right  of  Patronage  which  is  pretended  to 
be  by  the  V^estry.     Obtain  a  clear  direction  in  that  matter. 

11.  Towards  the  endowm't  of  the  College,  try  to  obtain  a 
gift  of  the  penny  p.  pound  on  Tob*  which  turns  so  little  to  his 
Majesties  Interest.  The  Collect'  having  one  half  &  the  Comp- 
troler  a  quarter,  &  all  the  charges  falling  on  the  Kings  quarter, 
purposes  that  the  Collect'  do  collect  it  for  ten  p.  cent,  or  at  most 
a  quarter,  &  give  in  their  accounts  upon  Oath  to  the  College,  as 
theComptroler  Sweare  them  now  before  the  Gov'.  Represent 
how  this  business  is  overlooked  in  Maryland:  And  that  the  Col- 
lege will  see  that  the  Act  be  more  strictly  executed  since  their  own 
Interest  will  be  joined  with  their  Majesties  if  this  gift  be  granted 
to  them,  Try  if  the  surveyor  general's  place  may  be  obtained 
for  the  College,  which  will  be  a  great  encouragement  to  the  study 
of  Mathematics  when  Survey"  bred  there  are  preferred. 

12.  Towards  the  said  endowm't  endeav'  to  obtain  10,000  acres 
of  Land  on  the  South  side  of  Blackwater  and  as  much  in 
Pamunkey  Neck  erected  into  Free  Baronys  to  pay  to  coppyes 
of  verses  yearly  for  the  Quit  Rents. 

That  all  escheated  Lands  &  States  not  coming  under  the 
Charter  may  be  given  to  the  College. 

13.  The  same  of  forfeitures  of  persons  dying  by  accident,  of 
which  their  Majesties  now  get  little  or  nothing. 

14.  Say  if  their  Majesties  will  bestow  the  Patronage  of  some 
churches  on  the  College. 

15.  If  Towns  go  forwards  that  a  Schoolmaster  be  maintained 
in  every  town  at  least  for  teaching  to  read  English  &  writing. 
A  small  encouragem*t  to  the  Parish  Clerk  or  reader  may  perhaps 
enable  him  to  keep  such  a  school. 

16.  Try  to  get  a  good  part  of  the  Quit  Rents  for  maintaining 
the  Clergy  or  College;  rather  the  Clergy  for  the  College  will  be 
sooner  supported  from  the  Country, 

17.  Represent  the  miserable  condition  the  Clergy  will  be  in  as 
they  increase  having  no  vote  in  the  Goverm'.  E:  G:  How  near 
they  were  from  being  debarred  from  any  Ecclesiastical  Discipline 
this  assemb.  having  none  to  represent  them  in  neither  house  & 


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particularly  the  dangers  of  this  at  present  if  the  Govern'  should 
fall  into  the  hands  of  the  Council  for  remedy,  whereof  it  seems 
at  pres'  absolutely  necessary  that  one  or  two  of  the  Clergy  be 
upon  the  council.  And  if  so  enquire  how  these  Clergymen  shall 
behave  themselves  in  the  generall  Courts  which  consists  of  the 
Gov'  &  Council  &  how  they  shall  sign  any  publick  papers.  That 
for  supporting  this  dignity  the  Bishop  of  London's  Comissary 
and  the  President  of  the  College  who  will  have  the  best  Salarys 
<&  the  greatest  authority  seem  to  be  the  fittest. 


[Nicholson  to  Blair.] 

Mr.  Comissary  Blair, 

S':  I  desire  you  to  represent  &  to  enlarge  upon  all  these  things 
to  my  Lord  Bishop  of  London  &  to  ask  his  advice  &  direct"  in 
them,  as  also  to  give  his  Lordship  an  Account  of  everything  else 
belonging  either  to  the  Ecclesiastical  or  Civil  State  of  this  Coun- 
try, you  being  a  person  whom  I  judge  very  capable  of  doing  it. 
Represent  that  Coll.  Page  (who  was  left  out  of  the  last  Commis- 
sion of  the  Council,  whether  by  mistake  or  otherways)  was  the 
only  man  who  opposed  the  Commission  sent  you  in  by  my  Lord 
Bishop  of  London  &  a  cunning  man  who  I  fear  has  underhand 
encouraged  others  to  raise  a  great  clamour  against  that  Com- 
ission,  that  hum'  breaking  out  most  in  ye  Country  wr.  he  lives 
&  therefore  endeavour  that  he  may  have  his  quietus  as  being  a 
very  old  &  infirm  man  &  may  not  be  restored  to  the  Council  & 
that  his  collectors  place  may  be  conferred  upon  Col.  Milner, 
speaker,  which  will  deter  others  of  the  Council  from  appearing 
against  the  Bishop  of  London's  Authority. 


"These  memorand"",  &c.,  are  what  was  given  to  Mr.  Comis- 
sary Blair  when  he  went  to  England  about  the  College,  &c., 
aflfair  &  the  rough  of  them  under  his  own  hand  are  in  the  Cus- 
tody of ." 

"  Memorand'm." 

•'  I  think  I  writ  a  Lett'  to  Mr.  Comissary  Blair  on  the  17  of 
June,  1 69 1,  to  this  effect:  That  I  had  forgot  to  speak  to  him 
about  employing  some  good  Lawyer  that  the  Charter  might  be 


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Strong  Si  firm,  that  their  Maj*ties  Atturney  Gen"  &  Solicitor 
were  to  be  employed,  but  I  particularly  recommended  to  him 
Mr.  Robert  Sawyer  &  Mr.  Finch,  because  they  were  great 
Lawyers  and  Church  of  England  men  &  were  every  way  quali- 
fy* d  for  him  to  make  use  of  &  that  I  supposed  they  would  take 
little  or  no  fee,  but  that  they  must  be  proferred  suitable  to  their 
character.  That  I  recommended  to  Mr.  Blair  that  if  I  stayed 
alone  that  he  would  send  me  a  good.  Ingenious,  single  man  to 
be  minister  of  James  Citty,  &  that  it  should  be  endeavoured  to 
be  made  comfortable  to  him  by.** 


[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

From  Linhaven  Bay,  June  19,  1691. 
May  it  please  your  Hon': 

I  have  received  your  Honopr*s  of  the  17th  and  shall  be 
mindful!,  God  willing,  of  your  advice  about  the  Lawyers,  as  also 
of  your  desire  concerning  a  minist'  for  James  Town.  I  doubt 
not  were  there  any  assurance  of  your  Hon"  Continuance  in  that 
Parish,  but  that  a  minist'  might  live  very  happily  there.  I  am 
not  conscious  to  myself  of  any  deserts  from  the  Country,  except 
that  I  am  a  most  hearty  well  wisher  to  it,  &  if  it  lay  in  my  weak 
power  to  do  it  any  service,  I  would  willingly  sacrifice  my  own 
interest  for  it.  And  I  confess  that  which  chiefly  animates  me  to 
make  any  attempts  for  its  good  is,  that  I  am  mighty  sensible  if 
ever  we  prosper,  now  is  the  time,  when  we  are  so  happy  in  your 
Honour's  good  Conduct  &  Governm'.  Your  health  &  happi- 
ness not  only  as  you  are  a  noble  &  kind  friend  to  myself,  but  as 
you  are  publick  Benefactor  to  this  poor  country  <&  a  Person,  I 
am  persuaded,  raised  by  (»od  for  the  making  of  it,  shall  ever  be 
prayed  for  with  all  humility  &  earnestness  by  Sr., 

Your  Hon"  most  obliged  &  most  faithfull  Servant, 

James  Blair. 

This  morning  the  wind  presents  fair  &  the  sign  is  given  for 
weighing.  We  hope  to  sail  now  at  last  but  are  very  doubtfuU, 
perceiving  what  slight  occasions  have  served  turn  to  keep  us 
here.  Mr.  Smith  gives  his  humble  service  to  your  Hon'.  I  do 
most  thankfully  accept  of  your  Hon"^'  kind  proffer  to  me  ^  must 


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intreat  your  favour  if  it  should  please  God  that  I  dye  in  this  ser- 
vice &  my  poor  wife  be  called  to  account  by  the  Assembly. 


[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

London,  Decern b'  ye  3rd,  1691. 

I  find  there  will  be  a  great  deal  of  difficulty  in  finding  of  able 
Masters  &  yet  I  am  sensible  the  life  of  the  business  lies  in  this. 
In  England  their  Masters  of  their  Colleges  have  a  much  easier 
life  than  is  designed  for  the  Masters  &  Professors  of  our  College 
in  Virginia..  I  can  have  severall  young  men  that  are  fitt  enough 
to  be  Ushers  but  can't  perswade  any  of  the  Eminent  Experienced 
Masters  to  go  over.  I  have  two  in  my  eye  that  are  very  fitt  for 
it,  if  I  can  prevail  with  them  to  undertake  it. 

There  was  one  thing  that  was  forgot  in  my  Instructions  (& 
'twas  my  fault,  for  I  was  not  sensible  of  the  necessity  of  it  at 
this  time),  that  is,  that  I  should  have  been  ordered  to  provide  a 
President  of  the  College  at  the  same  time  with  the  School  Mas- 
ter &  Usher.  I  thought  that  at  first  a  Grammar  school  being 
the  only  thing  we  could  go  upon,  a  good  school  Master  &  Usher 
were  enough  to  manage  that.  But  the  Bishop  of  London  & 
some  other  Bishops  &  a  great  many  other  skillful  men  whom  I 
have  consulted,  have  undeceived  me  &  perswaded  me  that  the 
President  of  the  College  ought  to  be  the  first  man  of  all  the 
Masters  we  provide  for  it;  their  reasons  are  these:  i.  That  the 
good  success  of  ye  whole  business  depends  upon  the  setting  up 
&  executing  of  a  good  discipline  at  first,  both  among  the  Mas- 
ters Sc  Scholars,  which  if  it  be  left  wholey  to  the  School  Master 
he  will  be  sure  to  make  it  easy  enough  for  himself  &  will  contrive 
to  lead  the  scholars  in  such  a  method  as  will  keep  them  a  great 
deal  longer  at  school  than  they  needed  to  be  kept,  only  for  his 
own  advantage;  most  of  the  Masters  here  in  England  keep  their 
scholars  seven  years  at  the  Latin  which  might  be  as  well  taught 
in  four  if  they  pleased.  2.  It  may  so  happen  that  the  School 
Master  &  Ushur  may  want  as  much  to  be  inspected  as  the  schol- 
ars themselves,  viz:  That  they  keep  certain  &  good  hours  for 
teaching:  that  they  teach  no  bad  books;  that  they  be  not  remiss 
in  censuring  of  faults,  &  w""*  is  as  common,  that  they  be  not  to 
severe  <S:  rigid:  that  they  themselves  give  a  good  example  & 


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that  they  take  the  most  expeditious  means  of  teaching,  &c.  For 
all  which  things  they  say  it  is  as  necessary  that  they  be  under 
the  constant  direction  of  the  President  of  the  College.  3.  If 
this  School  Master  or  Usher  should  be  taken  sick,  it  is  necessary 
that  the  President  of  the  College  should  supply  the  place,  or 
else  we  must  expect  not  only  the  loss  of  their  learning  but  an 
utter  breach  of  all  Govern"*  and  discipline  &  a  time  of  misrule 
w*"^  might  prove  the  occasion  of  more  mischief  to  the  scholars 
&  college  than  a  President's  salary  is  worth.  Besides  the  over- 
seeing of  ye  buildings,  housekeeping,  managem*  of  the  Reve- 
nue, Library,  domestick  discipline  &  sev"  other  things  for  w*"** 
they  say  a  President  is  necessary  in  the  beginning.  And  I  must 
confess  there  is  a  great  deal  of  sense  in  what  they  say  &  it  can't 
be  denied  that  a  President  in  ye  beginning  would  be  both  a 
great  security  &  Credit  to  the  whole  design,  which  will  stand  or 
fall  according  to  the  first  good  or  bad  measures  they  take  &  the 
first  name  &  Reputation  that  it  has  in  the  world.  And  therefore 
if  they  would  have  a  President  from  England  let  me  have  an 
Instruction  about  it,  &  I  will  use  the  utmost  of  my  diligence  to 
procure  a  man  fitt  for  so  great  a  trust.  But  if  it  be  thought  that 
I  or  any  other  person  there  can  be  fitt  to  supply  such  a  place, 
they  may  save  themselves  the  trouble  of  writing,  together  with 
th^  5^;^  for  Transportation.  To  use  all  freedom  with  your  Hon' 
now  that  I  see  that  not  only  the  design  of  a  College  in  Virg*  but 
y*  this  particular  draught  &  scheme  of  it  has  passed  the  strictest 
examination  of  the  best  Judges  here  &  has  mett  with  a  general 
approbation,  I  am  more  desirous  than  ever  to  see  it  brought  to 
perfection,  &  tho  I  never  sought  a  place  in  my  whole  life  time, 
I  could  find  in  my  heart  to  seek  this,  being  well  assured  that 
tho  (if  we  could  perswade  them  to  go  to  Virg*)  there  are  many 
men  in  England  much  fitter  for  it  upon  the  account  of  Learning, 
prudence  &  authority,  yet  perhaps  there  is  none  to  be  found 
that  has  a  greater  zeal  for  the  Countr>%  or  that  is  more  concerned 
in  point  of  honour  to  sec  this  work  prosper  than  I  am.  But  I 
am  afraid  my  zeal  carries  me  beyond  the  bounds  of  discretion, 
I  could  now  dash  all  this  out  again,  only  that  I  remember  I  am 
writing  to  a  person  that  will  make  no  bad  use  of  what  I  say  & 
will  let  it  live  or  dye  according  as  he  finds  it  may  be  an  help  or 
an  impediment  to  that  excellent  work  we  are  carrying  on ;  only 


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this  I  must  likewise  tell  your  Hon'  in  my  own  justification,  y* 
this  is  no  proj'  of  mine.  I  was  put  upon  it  by  the  Bishops  of 
Salisbury  &  Worcest'  &  have  had  it  frequently  urged  by  Dr. 
Horneck  &  severall  other  well  wishers  to  our  college,  &  I  never 
begun  to  give  ear  to  it  till  I  took  notice  of  the  vast  difference 
there  is  between  the  contrivance  of  our  Virginia  College  &  all 
the  Colleges  I  can  hear  of  here  in  England,  for  here  I  can  find 
nothing  but  public  Halls,  where  Readings  are  made  with  open 
doors  &  the  scholars  come  or  stay  away  at  their  pleasure,  & 
when  they  do  come  they  have  no  part  at  all  in  the  business  that  • 
is  done  there,  &  indeed  for  aught  that  I  can  see  if  it  were  not 
for  the  diligence  of  the  Private  Tutors,  more  than  any  benefitt 
they  reap  from  the  Professors'  Lectures,  it  were  utterly  impos- 
sible that  ever  the  scholars  here  in  England  could  come  to  any- 
thing. But  in  Virg*  where  we  can't  expect  so  much  Revenue 
as  would  be  necessary  for  founding  of  fellowships  for  ye  Tutors, 
it  will  be  absolutely  necessary  that  the  Professors  go  another 
way  to  work.  I  mean  that  besides  their  Readings  they  daily 
examine  their  Scholars,  prescribe  them  tasks,  hear  them  dis- 
pute, try  them  in  all  manner  of  Exercises  &  wait  upon  them  as 
punctually  as  a  School  Mast'  doth  upon  his  School  boys,  or  an 
Artisan  upon  his  Apprentices,  tho  in  their  way  of  treating  them 
they  must  use  them  with  a  decent  Liberty  &  friendship  accord- 
ing to  their  age  and  discretion.  Now  the  charge  &  burthen  of 
carrying  on  all  this  will  lay  upon  the  President,  &  they  make  me 
afraid  if  we  take  a  man  from  either  of  the  Universitys  who  never 
saw  any  such  Institution,  but  has  been  accustomed  to  a  much 
more  easy  &  idle  way,  that  he  will  never  bear  it  &  will  not  at 
all  be  fitt  for  such  a  small  College  as  ours  will  be. 

But  it  is  time  to  make  an  end  of  this  tedious  long  letter.  I 
pray  God  direct  them  for  the  best  &  if  my  endeavours  can  con- 
tribute anything  to  the  perfecting  of  so  good  a  design  they  shall 
never  be  wanting,  for  really  I  have  a  great  deal  of  credit  &  com- 
fort by  what  is  already  done  &  I  question  not  but  if  the  design 
which  is  laid  be  well  finished,  we  shall  have  as  pretty  a  Seminary 
for  Learning  &  virtue  as  is  in  all  Europe.  The  part  your  Hon' 
has  acted  in  it  is  exceedingly  commended;  But  this  I  must  make 
the  subject  of  another  letter  wherein  I  design  to  give  you  an 
account  of  what  I  know  of  your  Circumstances  at  Court;  In  the 


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mean  time  praying  for  your  health  &  the  success  of  all  your 
good  designs  for  that  iK)or  Country  I  take  leave  &  am  S', 
Your  Hon"  most  obliged  humble  Serv', 

James  Blair. 


S': 


[Blair  To  Nicholson.] 

Gosport,  April  20th,  1693. 


I  have  received  sev"  of  yours  directed  to  Cows  &  Portsmouth 
for  which  I  humbly  thank  Your  Hon'  for  next  to  your  own 
Company  your  letters  are  the  most  acceptable.  I  am  sensible 
how  Zealously  you  have  been  laying  out  your  time  &  pains 
for  the  service  of  Virg*  in  solliciting  the  dispatch  of  this  fleet, 
which  I  hope  now  will  sail  the  first  fair  wind.  While  we  stay 
I  shall  trouble  Your  Hon'  with  a  line  at  least  once  a  week.  I 
hope  you  will  continue  the  same  good  endeavors  for  Virg'  &  if 
it  lyes  in  your  way  will  embrace  opportunity  of  doing  me  what 
kindness  with  our  good  Bishops  you  can  without  too  much  trouble. 
The  arch  Bishop  (whom  I  have  found  most  punctual  to  his  word 
upon  all  occasions)  told  me  that  the  King  said  he  would  order 
my  designed  Salary  of  a  hundred  pound  as  Comissary  to  be 
paid  some  other  way  since  they  made  such  a  Clamour  against 
paying  it  out  of  the  Quit  Rents  &  his  grace  was  pleased  to  add  that 
he  would  take  care  to  see  it  done,  so  that  if  I  had  not  been  so 
hurryed  at  last  as  I  was  I  might  have  hoped  to  have  brought  it 
to  some  thing.  I  only  tell  your  Hon'  this  that  you  may  see  there 
is  a  good  foundation  to  work  upon  if  ever  you  should  have  an 
opiK)rtunity  of  discoursing  the  arch  Bishop  on  this  subject. 
Pardon  this  trouble  which  I  protest  I  did  not  think  on  when  I 
began  this  letter  (as  you  may  guess  by  the  little  bitt  of  paper  I 
took  to  write  on)  only  the  necessity  of  my  Condition  having 
brought  me  very  considerably  in  debt  since  I  came  last  to  Eng- 
land* is  ever  &  anon  troubling  me  with  Impertinent  thoughts  of 

♦  **  In  margin.  Mem'm.  How  could  the  necessity  of  his  condition 
bring  him  very  considerably  in  debt  since  he  came  last  for  Eng'd,  who 
by  his  acct.  made  up  w'th  ye  assembly,  he  had  received  8  lb.,  9  s.,  6D. 
more  than  he  charged  in  his  very  extraordinary  &  extrava'gt  account, 
and  may  be  an  unjust  one,  some  articles  of  which  were  not  true,  sure 


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myself  &  wishes  that  I  were  at  least  in  such  circumstances  as  to 
be  clear  of  the  world,  that  I  owe  nothing  to  no  man  but  common 
Love  &  Charity. 

I  know  they  are  all  sensible  how  unreasonable  a  thing  it  is 
that  I  should  bear  all  the  burden  and  charge  too  without  any 
consideration,  and  who  knows  but  that  it  might  be  easier  now 
during  some  men's  absence  who  was  always  my  enemys  &  during 
the  Queen's  Administration,  who  was  always  inclined  most  favor- 
ably in  this  matter  to  obtain  some  order  if  you  thought  it  proper 
to  suggest  it.  But  I  perceive  I  forget  myself  &  that  I  am  writ- 
ing to  a  Berfefactor  that  has  always  minded  my  Interest  more 
than  I  have  done  myself  Si  therefore  again  I  hope  you  will  look 
upon  this  as  a  piece  of  Unpremeditated  impertinency  &  do  as 
you  think  fit  &  as  the  Circumstances  of  things  do  present.  I 
pray  God  for  your  health  &  for  our  happy  meeting  in  Virg*  & 
am  with  the  greatest  sincerity  S^ 

Your  most  obliged  humble  serv', 

James  Blair. 
I  will  take  care  to  write  to  Mad"  Mathews  as  you  desire. 


The  Postscript  of  Another  Lett'r. 

Mr.  Perry  sent  me  in  lately  the  Coppy  of  an  order  of  the 
Queens  for  a  hundred  pounds  to  be  paid  out  of  the  Quit  Rents. 
Your  Hon'  has  added  this  to  all  your  other  kindnesses  for  which 
I  can  but  return  thanks,  for  I  shall  never  be  able  to  return  them. 
I  have  made  no  use  of  the  Coppy  being  told  that  it  is  good  for 
nothing  without  the  originall.  I  wish  if  possible  an  order  could 
be  obtained  once  for  all  concerning  the  Comissary's  salary  dur- 
ing pleasure,  for  I  doubt  I  shall  be  put  to  very  great  trouble  & 
charge  to  have  it  renewed  every  year.  I  put  Mr.  Bowlin  in 
mind  of  an  Indian  for  your  Hon',  but  he  has  not  yet  found  any 
to  his  mind. 

he  will  not  say  yt.  he  ran  himself  in  debt  on  account  of  not  charging  ye 
articles  of  ad  purfundus  Renes,  but  he  might  be  in  debt  for  a  cargo  or 
box  for  himself  &  wife  to  keep  store  with  in  Virg'a  as  they  used  to  do." 


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[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

Virg",  January  2nd,  169^. 

As  to  the  College  tho  nothing  was  done  for  its  encouragement 
in  comparison  of  what  might  have  been  expected  had  you  been 
here,  yet  we  reckon  it  is  well  that  it  is  no  worse;  the  place 
for  scituating  the  College  is  now  appointed  to  be  at  Middle 
Plantat"  &  an  Imposition  of  seven  &.a  half  per  cent,  on  skins 
&  furs  exported  is  given  forever  to  the  College,  according  to  the 
advice  of  the  Lords  of  the  Comitty  for  Plantations,  &  an 
address  of  thanks  is  returned  to  their  Maj'ties  for  their  good- 
ness to  ye  Country  in  the  matter  of  the  College.  They  did  also 
take  in  my  Accts.  &  allowed  them  •&  ordered  me  250  pounds  in 
consideration  of  my  time  &  pains  in  soUiciting  the  affair  in  Eng- 
land. In  my  Accounts  I  made  them  Debtors  to  your  Hon'  for 
the  360  pound  spent  in  passing  the  Charter,  &c.  The  other  100 
pound  which  was  advanced  to  the  Master  &  Usher  &  some 
others  uses  for  the  College  I  charged  to  the  College  Acct.  The 
first  360  the  Assembly  has  ordered  to  be  thankfully  repaid  to 
your  Hon'  &  I  doubt  not  you  will  have  an  account  of  it  from 
your  Atturney  Coll.  Hartwell.  The  other  100  must  pass  in  part 
of  payment  of  your  bountifull  Donations  to  the  College. 


[Receipt  to  Nicholson.] 

July  ye  19,  1694. 

Received  of  his  Excellency  Francis  Nicholson,  their  Majes- 
ties Governour  Gen"  of  Maryland,  one  hundred  pounds,  it  being 
a  part  of  his  Excellency's  gift  to  the  College  of  King  Wm.  & 
Queen  Mary  in  Virginia. 

William  Bvrd,  Treasurer. 


"  Memorandum." 

*'Mr.  Comissary  knew  y'  by  one  of  the  Royall  Instruccons 
y*  no  minister  was  to  be  preferred  to  any  Ecclesiastical  benefice 
w^^'out  a  Certificate  from  ye  Right  rev**  father  in  God,  ye  Ld. 
Bp.  of  London,  &c.  But  to  serve  a  turne  for  his  Interest  y' 
Instruction  might  be  dispensed  with  but  how  he  will  gett  a  Dis- 


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pensation  for  his  having  told  so  many  untruths  &  haveing  swore 
so  largely  Contrary  to  Records  &  Liveing  Testimony  it  is  sup- 
posed it  will  be  a  difficult  thing  for  him  to  obtaine,  Except  he 
has  it  of  the  Jesuits  or  Knoxonians. 

*'This  to  be  put  after  the  postscript  ab'  Mr.  Peckman.*' 


[Petition  of  Blair  to  Andros.] 

To  his  Excellency  S'  Edmund  Andros,  Their  Maj'ties  Lieutenant 
&  Gov'  Gen"  of  Virginia,  And  the  Honorable  the  Council 
of  State,  And  To  the  Worshipful  the  House  of  Burgesses. 

The  Supplication  of  James  Blair,  Clerk,  Humbly  Sheweth: 

That  your  Petitioner  hath  by  an  order  of  the  Assembly  of  this 
Dominion  Sollicited  the  business  of  a  free  school  &  college  at 
the  Court  of  England  &  with  no  small  Labor  &  charge  obtained 
an  ample  Charter  from  their  Maj'ties  for  erecting  &  endowing  the 
same. 

And  therefore  humbly  prays  that  the  Gen"  Assembly  may  be 
graciously  pleased  to  take  in  your  Petitioners  Accounts  &  to 
consider  him  for  his  time  &  Labour  in  attending  the  said  Affair 
As  to  your  Wisdom  &  discretion  shall  seem  meet  &  expedient  • 
and  your  Petition"^  as  in  all  Duty  bound  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 

By  his  Excellency  &  Council  this  Petition,  with  two  accounts 
exhibited,  referred  to  the  Serious  Consideration  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses. 

James  Shurlock,  Clk.  Gen' 11  Ass'n. 

Oct.  ye  19th,  1693. 

[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

Gosport,  April  29,  1693. 

Sir:  Since  my  last  I  have  had  two  from  your  Hon',  one  with 
Coppy  of  ye  order  for  the  mony  &  the  other  with  the  Inclosed 
abt.  the  black  walnut  which  I  will  be  carefull  of;  Capt.  Wilmot 
lodges  in  this  place  &  keeps  his  chamber  &  for  the  most  part  his 
bud  ]>liiil:  iiiui.  h  tormented  with  the  Stranguary.  He  told  me 
how  kiiully  y^jur  Hon'  remembered  me.  We  have  had  some 
lonpf  &  full  dist:nurses  of  Virg'  to  which  I  find  my  heart  mightily 
tyi'di  tlin'  r  {lutibt  I  shall  not  find  it  the  same  thing  it  was  in  your 


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Hon"  time.  I  am  most  sensible  how  happy  I  am  in  so  true  & 
kind  a  friend;  but  if  you  find  any  difficulty  in  prosecuting  what 
you  propose  in  your  last,  I  hope  you  will  not  add  the  trouble  of 
my  misfortunes  to  your  own,  I  am  sorry  that  I  suffer  in  so  good 
company.  This  place  affords  no  news,  the  wind  being  still  out 
of  the  way,  so  I  take  leave  at  this  time  &  remain  S' 

Your  most  obliged  humble  Serv*, 

James  Blair. 

Capt.  Wilmot  has  the  misfortune  to  have  about  i,6oo  pounds 
of  Tob*  seized  at  Deal,  which  he  brought  over  in  the  Wolfe;  he 
had  put  it  into  the  Grafton  with  about  thirty  of  his  men  who  were 
brought  over  from  the  Wolfe  to  the  Elizabeth,  he  says  he  never 
designed  to  put  it  ashore,  but  to  give  it  in  presents  in  the  Fleet. 
He  desired  me  to  tell  this  to  your  Hon^  I  fancy  for  such  a 
small  parcell  they  will  not  refuse  to  let  him  have  the  benefit  of  an 
Entry. 


[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

Plymouth,  May  ye  19,  1693. 

S':  I  have  just  now  received  yours  with  the  Inclosed  for  my 
Lady  Andros  and  am  at  a  loss  how  to  express  the  greatfull  sense 
I  have  of  that  continual  tract  of  kindness  you  have  ever  showed 
me;  I  hope,  as  I  have  opportunity  to  show  at  least,  that  1  am 
not  unthankful.  We  have  no  present  news,  we  were  fain  to  put 
in  here  by  contrary  winds  untill  the  Comodores  order  for  staying 
out  was  expired,  which  was  the  tenth  of  this  month.  I  hear 
now  we  are  to  wait  for  the  coming  of  the  great  fleet.  In  all  these 
Intervals  of  delay,  I  live  ashore  that  I  may  give  no  more  trouble 
to  Capt.  Townsend  than  is  necessary,  which  has  so  drained  me 
that  I  shall  be  necessitated  to  draw  again  on  Mr.  Perry. 

Our  voyage  is  like  to  be  very  tedious  to  every  body,  &  it  is  so 
more  particularly  to  me,  as  being  deprived  of  the  great  happiness 
I  proposed  to  myself  in  your  Honrs.  company  both  at  Sea  & 
Land.  But  I  submitt  to  that  wise  Providence  that  has  thought 
fitt  for  some  time  to  part  us  &  I  perswade  myself  wherever  you 
are  God's  blessing  will  attend  you  for  the  kindness  you  have 
shewed  to  poor  Virg*,  upon  whose  account  as  well  as  my  own  I 


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shall  reckon  myself  ever  honored  to  pray  for  your  Hon'  &  to 
remain  with  all  sincerity  S' 

Your  Hon"  most  humble  &  obliged  Serv*, 

James  Blair. 

NOTE. 

The  Revolution,  in  1688,  put  an  end  to  persecution  of  the 
Quakers;  though  they,  together  with  other  Dissenters,  remained 
for  many  years  liable  to  imprisonment  for  non-payment  of  tithes, 
and  labored  under  various  other  disabilities.  Either  the  tithes 
were  paid,  or  the  laws  in  regard  to  them  were  not  rigorously  exe- 
cuted, for  there  is  but  little  reference  to  the  subject  in  the  various 
County  Court  records.  Only  a  thorough  examination,  however, 
would  authorize  one  to  speak  positively. 

Mr.  Weeks,  in  his  *  *  Southern  Quakers  and  Slavery '  *  (a  some- 
what misleading  title  for  a  general  history  of  the  Southern 
Quakers),  has  given  a  very  carefully  studied  and  fair  history  of 
the  Society  in  Virginia;  but  there  is  a  question  whether  he  has 
not  exagerated  the  actual  persecution.  There  is  no  doubt  that 
the  laws  were  severe;  but  there  seems  good  evidence  that  they 
were  not  executed  to  their  full  extent,  and  that  the  sentiment 
of  the  majoriy  of  the  people  were  against  such  severity.  As 
there  is  no  instance  of  capital  and  but  one  of  corporal  punish- 
ment in  Virginia  for  witchcraft,  so  there  are  but  few  authentic 
instances  of  severe  punishment  of  the  Quakers.  Following  the 
English  act,  Quakers  in  Virginia  were  soon  allowed  to  affirm, 
instead  of  taking  an  oath,  and  in  1699  a  law  was  passed  except- 
ing all  Dissenters,  who  were  qualified  according  to  the  Toleration 
Act  of  I  William  and  Mary,  from  fines  for  non-attendance  at  the 
parish  churches.  Mr.  Weeks  endorses  Henings  opinion  that 
nothing  could  be  more  intolerant  than  to  offer  exemption  provi- 
ded the  Dissenters  complied  with  an  act  *  *  when  not  one  person  in 
a  thousand  could  possibly  know  its  contents.**  There  seems  to 
be  really  no  foundation  for  this  objection,  for  it  is  simply  impos- 
sible that  the  numerous  men  of  means  and  intelligence  among 
the  Quakers  (such  as  John  Pleasants  for  instance)  would  not  pro- 
cure copies  of  an  act  so  vitally  important  to  them,  and  make  its 
terms  known  to  their  humbler  and  more  ignorant  bretheren. 


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In  regard  to  persecution  at  a  time  before  the  Toleration,  Mr. 
Weeks  cites  (p.  15)  from  the  General  Court  records,  one  instance 
in  which  a  Quaker  was  whipped,  and  another  (p.  20)  quoting 
from  an  author  whose  theme  is,  to  some  extent,  the  glorification 
of  Quaker  sufferings,  where  George  Wilson,  about  1661,  was 
cast  into  a  dungeon,  and  kept  within  the  damp  walls  until  his 
flesh  rolled  from  his  limbs,  and,  at  Jamestown,  *'he  lay  down 
his  life  a  faithful  martyr.**  The  objection  might  be  raised  that 
there  is  no  account  of  there  ever  having  been  an  underground 
dungeon  in  Virginia;  but  Mr.  Weeks,  himself,  in  quoting, 
expresses  a  doubt  as  to  the  truth  of  the  statement.  As  a  rule, 
there  are  no  greater  sensation-mongers  than  the  writers  of  Mar- 
ty rologies  in  any  form.  (Of  course,  reference  is  not  had  to 
Mr.  Weeks,  but  to  Bowden.)  There  is,  in  addition,  the  record 
of  one  other  whipping  in  Westmoreland  county,  the  reference 
to  which  is  at  present  mislaid. 

The  blood  of  the  martyrs  is  the  seed  of  the  church,  but  there 
is  no  doubt  that  religious  persecution,  rigorously  adhered  to,  can 
root  out  a  dissenting  belief— as,  for  instance,  Protestantism  in 
Spain  and  Italy.  If  all  breaches  of  the  Virginia  laws  against 
Quakers  had  been  punished  by  fine,  it  would  have  been  impos- 
sible for  the  Quakers  to  pay,  and  if  according  to  the  law,  non- 
payment of  fines  had  been  followed  by  imprisonment,  the  whole 
of  the  sect  in  the  Colony  would  soon  have  been  in  jail.  But  on 
the  contrary,  they  increased  in  numbers  and  prosperity. 

That  the  law  against  meetings  was  not  executed  is  plain  from 
numerous  instances  cited  in  Mr.  Weeks'  valuable  book.  Wil- 
liam Robinson  (who  was  hanged  next  year  in  Boston),  visited 
Virginia  in  1658,  and  wrote:  "There  are  many  people  con- 
vinced;'* William  Coale  (1661)  though  reporting  persecution, 
says  that  "  Some  were  turned  to  the  Lord  through  his  ministry, 
and  many  were  established  in  the  truth;"  Josiah  Cole  (1660): 
*'  I  left  Friends  in  Virginia  generally  very  well  and  fresh  in  the 
truth;'*  George  Rolfe  (1661):  **Many  settled  meetings  there 
are  in  Virginia."  Elizabeth  Hooton  and  Joane  Brocksoppe, 
who  were  banished  from  Boston,  came  to  Virginia.  Mary 
Thomas  and  Alice  Ambrose  (1662)  say:  "In  Virginia  we  have 
had  good  service  for  the  Lord  *  *  *  *  .  Our  sufferings 
have  been  large  among  them     *     *     *     *     we  are  now  about  to 


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sail  for  Virginia  again."  John  Burny eat  (1665):  *'They  (the 
Quakers)  have  quite  forgotten  their  meetings.*'  There  had 
been  a  schism  among  them.  William  Edmundson  (1672): 
**Held  several  powerful  meetings  among  them."  George  Fox 
(1672)  had  meetings  in  Virginia,  at  Nansemond  River  (where 
Colonel  Dew,  of  the  Council,  and  several  officers  and  magis- 
trates attended),  at  Pagan  Creek,  in  Isle  of  Wight,  at  Sumerton, 
at  Widow  Wright's  in  Nansemond  ("  where  many  magistrates, 
officers  and  other  high  people  came  "),  at  Crickatrough,  at  John 
Porters  and  elsewhere.  (Here  we  have  John  Porter  who  was 
appointed  a  magistrate  in  1672,  having  a  meeting  in  his  own 
house.)  Edmundson  (1676)  had  many  meetings  at  Elizabeth 
River.  John  Boweter  (1678)  held  meetings  in  many  places. 
There  were  regularly  established  half  yearly  meetings  in  1682. 
Some  other  instances  (not  quoted  by  Mr.  Weeks)  appear  in  the 
records  of  York  county.  They  have  been  printed  in  the  IVt/- 
iiam  and  Mary  Quarterly ^  I,  91,  &c:  **  The  Court  of  York  on 
Sept.  20,  1665,  ordered  the  sheriff  and  his  deputies  to  prevent 
all  private  and  other  meetings  of  *  the  turbulent  people  called 
Quakers.'  "  But  the  order  was  so  futile  that  the  court,  on  the 
20th  of  October  following,  complained  that  the  Quakers  met  in 
York  county  oftener  than  anywhere  else.  Nay,  at  that  very 
court.  Rev.  Philip  Mallory,  a  highly  respected  minister,  pro- 
duced a  letter,  which  he  had  received  '*from  Mr.  Thos.  Bush- 
rod  [a  prominent  citizen  and  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses, 
1659-60]  whereby  he  certifyes  a  seeming  desyre  of  a  conference 
to  be  had  with  him  by  the  Quakers."  Mr.  Mallory  expresses 
his  willingness  and  asks  the  permission  of  the  Court,  who, 
though  thinking  the  conference  might  be  useful,  referred  the 
matter  to  the  Governor.  After  the  act  of  1659-60,  the  Quakers 
were  obdurate,  and  the  women  were  especially  zealous  in  attend- 
ing **conventacles,"  which  called  forth  another  order  from  the 
Governor,  especially  in  regard  to  them.  At  a  meeting  of  York 
Court,  August  26,  1 66 1,  complaint  was  made  by  two  witnesses 
that  "several  Quakers  mett  the  26th  instant  in  the  woods, 
amongst  which  was  Mrs.  Mary  Chisman,  and  two  or  three  negroes 
belonging  to  her  husband."  The  court  ordered  that  Chisman 
and  his  wife  have  notice  of  the  Governor's  order,  and  if  they 
again  offended,  its  penalty,  imprisonment,  was  to  be  inflicted. 


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On  the  same  day  Rev.  Justinian  Aylmer  testified  that  Colonel 
Thomas  Bushrod  had  said  that  "  your  deponent  and  Mr.  Philip 
Mallory,  that  reverend  divine,  were  a  couple  of  Episcopal  knaves, 
were  Anti-Christ,  came  from  the  Pope,'*  &c.  (This  sort  of 
extravagance  was  one  of  the  causes  of  the  severe  laws  against 
the  Quakers),  and  Thomas  Iken  deposed  that  Bushrod  had 
**  challenged  and  dared  the  Magistrates  to  apprehend  the  Quak- 
ers at  their  meetings, '  *  and  that  *  *  they  would  meet  on  Sunday 
following  and  that  his  wife  was  usually  at  their  meetings  if  the 
weather  would  permitt.'*  This  did  not  sound  as  if  violent  per- 
secution was  feared.  Colonel  Bushrod  died,  leaving  a  large 
estate,  and  directing  that  the  common  prayer  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  should  not  be  read  at  his  funeral. 

It  is  very  evident  from  the  instances  which  have  been  cited 
that  the  law  against  meetings  must  have  been  practically  a  nul- 
lity. 

There  \*ere  doubtless  some  imprisonments  and  probably  a 
considerable  number  of  fines:  but,  as  Mr.  Weeks  shows,  these 
persecutions  were  sporadic,  and  dependant  on  the  caprice  or  greed 
of  the  officers  of  the  law.  They  were  infrequent  and  soon  dropped. 
For  instance,  John  Porter,  of  Lower  Norfolk,  who  in  1663  was 
fined  for  attending  a  meeting,  was  in  1672  appointed  a  justice  of 
the  peace.  And  in  1663,  the  same  John  Porter  and  Mrs.  Mary 
Emperor  were  sentenced  to  transportation  for  attending  a  meet- 
ing; but  it  is  very  certain  they  were  not  transported.  Petty 
persecutions,  such  as  the  presentment  by  William  Randolph  and 
Colonel  Thomas  Grendon  (a  mean  business  for  two  gentlemen) 
at  Henrico  Court,  Februarv,  1682-3,  of  John  Pleasants  and  his 
wife,  as  illegally  cohabiting  together,  were  no  doubt  frequent. 
Of  course  though  every  one  knew  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pleasants 
had  been  properly  married  under  the  Quaker  form,  and  as  this 
form  had  been  recognized  by  the  English  Court  as  legal,  many 
years  before,  yet  the  matter  promised  to  be  a  serious  one  to  them, 
for  the  court  imposed  the  enormous  fine  of  ;^240  sterling  upon 
each  of  them.  They  appealed  to  the  General  Court,  and  an 
order  from  England  in  their  favor  put  an  end  to  the  case. 

So  popular  were  some  of  the  Quakers  that  John  Pleasants, 
was  in  1692,  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Henrico;  but  as  he  would  not  take  the  oaths  was  unseated.     He, 


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by  the  way,  with  characteristic  Quaker  prudence,  presented  his 
will  in  court  and  personally  proved  it,  several  years  before  his 
death. 

There  was  no  donbt  much  annoyance,  and  much  possibility  of 
serious  trouble  to  the  Quakers,  before  the  Toleration  Act;  but 
evidently  little  in  reality. 

The  other  leading  dissenting  denomination,  the  Presbyterians, 
included  in  the  little  congregations  of  Makemie  and  Makie, 
apparently  received  fiill  toleration. 


VIRGINIA  GAME,  AND  FIELD  SPORTS. 


Description  of  Them  by  the  Botanist  Clayton  in  1739. 


The  following  letter  which  was  copied  from  a  letter-book  in 
the  possession  of  a  descendant,  Mr.  Jasper  Clayton,  of  Chest er- 
.*ield  county,  Va.,  was  written  by  John  Clayton,  of  Gloucester 
county,  Va.,  the  distinguished  botanist  and  author  of  **  Flora 
Virginica  "  and  other  works.  It  is  to  the  steward  and  manager 
of  an  estate  at  Hawkhurst,  county  of  Kent,  England,  which 
John  Clayton,  barrister  at  law,  of  the  Temple,  who  came  to 
Virginia  in  1706,  and  was  long  Attorney-General,  had  inherited 
at  his  mother's  death,  and  which  at  his  own,  in  1737,  had  de- 
scended to  his  son,  the  botanist,  who  at  the  time  of  writing  and 
many  years  later  was  clerk  of  Gloucester,  and  who  died  at  a 
very  advanced  age  on  December  15,  1773.  It  appears  from  let- 
ters in  the  book  mentioned  that  Attorney-General  Clayton  was  a 
brother  of  Lieutenant-General  Jasper  Clayton  of  the  English 
army,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Dettington  in  1743. 

We  copy  the  letter  verbatbn  et  literatim: 

March  2ist,  1739. 
To  Mr,  Samuel  Diirrent  at  Hankhurst  in  Kent, 

I  received  your  letter  dated  the  3d  day  of  January  last,  with 
an  account  of  the  rents  at  Michlemas  1737,  w'ch  I  take  to  be 


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just  and  very  right,  and  presume  w'n  I  receive  my  next  account 
from  Micajah  Perry,  Esq.  [his  London  merchant]  he  will  confirm 
the  same.  I  have  so  great  a  value  for  the  memory  of  my  father, 
and  the  persons  he  appointed,  that  I  shall  not  [stop]  the  custom 
of  allowing  you  a  box  of  Tobacco  every  Christmas,  nor  giving 
a  ring  for  w'ch  purpose  I  have  wrote  to  Mr.  Perry  to  deliver  the 
Tobacco  as  usual,  and  to  pay  you  for  a  mourning  ring  w'ch  you 
buy  as  soon  as  you  receive  this,  not  exceeding  a  guinea  or  25s. 
in  the  price,  he  dyed  Nov.  i8th.  1737,  in  the  72d  year  of  his  age. 
I  thank  you  for  the  kind  offer  of  y'r  house,  but  believe  my  affairs 
and  business  here  will  prevent  me  the  pleasure  of  seeing  my 
native  Country  any  more.  To  satisfie  the  Gentlemen  you  men- 
tion who  is  so  desirous  of  Knowing  the  diversion  of  hunting  and 
shooting  here  and  the  several  sorts  of  game  pray  give  my  service 
to  him  and  tell  him,  that  we  have  all  the  tame  domestick  beasts 
and  fowls  that  you  have  in  England,  and  great  variety  of  wild 
ones  as  Deer  in  great  pleanty,  Bears,  Buffaloes,  Wolves,  Foxes, 
Panthers,  wild  Cats,  Elks,  Hares  (smaller  than  any  of  y's  which 
run  in  holes  in  the  earth  and  hollow  trees  when  pressed  by  the 
dogs,  and  are  much  like  w't  you  call  in  England  bush  Rabbits), 
Squirrels  3  or  4  sorts.  Raccoons,  Oppossums,  Beavers,  Otters, 
musk  rats,  Pole  cats,  minks  and  there  has  been  two  Porcupines 
killed  here,  but  they  are  very  scarce.  Then  for  fowls,  wild  Tur- 
key's very  numerous.  Partridges  (the  size  and  colour  like  y'r 
Quails),  wild  Geese,  Swans,  Brants,  Cormorants,  Teal,  Duck 
and  Mallard,  Black  ducks  and  another  sort  we  call  Summer  Ducks, 
Plover  2  or  3  sorts,  Soris  (a  delicious  eating  bird  in  Shape  and 
way  of  living  like  y'r  Water  Rails),  Heath  Fowls  (called  here 
improperly  Pheasants)  2  sorts,  wild  Pidgeons  in  prodigions  great 
flocks,  F'ieldfares,  Woodcocks  (but  what  is  very  strange  they 
come  here  only  in  summer)  Snipes,  Herons,  Bitterns,  Elagles, 
Larks  2  sorts  one  of  w'ch  are  here  all  the  year  round,  are  as  big 
as  Quails,  the  other  are  seen  only  in  winter  and  are  much  like 
your  lark.  Now  the  Gentlemen  here  that  follow  the  sport  place 
most  of  their  diversion  in  Shooting  Deer;  w'ch  they  perform  in 
this  manner  they  go  out  early  in  the  morning  and  being  pritty 
certain  of  the  places  where  the  Deer  frequent  they  send  their 
servants  w'th  dogs  to  drive  'em  out  and  so  shoot  'em  running,  the 
the  Deer  are  very  swift  of  foot,  larger  and  longer  legged  than 


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the  English  fallow  Deer,  and  less  than  the  red  Deer,  the  diversion 
of  shooting  Turkies  is  only  to  be  had  in  the  upper  parts  of  the 
Countrey  where  the  woods  are  of  a  very  large  extent,  and  bu^ 
few  settlements  as  yet  tho'  they  increase  daily.  Some  hunt  the 
foxes  w'th  hounds  as  you  do  in  England,  the  shooting  of  water 
fowl  is  performed  too  in  the  same  manner  w'th  a  Water  spaniel, 
as  w*th  you,  and  of  Partridges;  and  also  the  hunting  our  hares 
w'h  small  dogs,  who  drive  *em  presently  into  the  hollow  of  a  tree, 
then  we  either  cut  'em  out  w'th  an  Ax  or  fill  the  hole  w'th  old 
dead  leaves  and  set  fire  to  'em,  the  smoke  of  w'ch  Suffocates  the 
hare,  and  she  drops  down ;  the  bears,  Panthers,  Buffaloes  and 
Elks  and  wild  cats  are  only  to  be  found  among  the  mountains 
and  desert  parts  of  the  countrey  where  there  are  as  yet  but  few 
inhabitants  and  the  hunting  there  is  very  toilsome  and  laborious 
and  sometimes  dangerous.  Yet  the  Common  Sort  of  People 
who  live  among  the  Mountains  kill  great  Quantitys  of  Bears 
every  year;  but  the  greatest  destruction  of  'em  is  made  in  the 
beginning  of  the  Winter  when  the  bears  lay  themselves  to  sleep 
in  the  caves  and  holes  among  rocks  of  the  mountains  at  w'ch 
time  the  people  go  to  the  mouth  of  the  Cave  w'th  their  guns 
loaded  and  shoot  'em  as  they  lye  in  their  dens.  We  have  also 
great  pleanty  and  variety  of  fish  w'ch  we  take  with  nets  and  by 
Angling  as  is  practiced  in  England,  and  now  I  hope  I  have  satis- 
fied the  Gentleman's  curiosity,  at  least  I  have  done  my  endeavor 
towards  it,  as  much  as  the  Compass  of  a  letter  will  allow  of  and 
will  be  very  glad  in  y'r  next  to  know  his  name. 

You  give  y'r  Service  to  my  two  brothers,  but  I  have  but  one 
who  is  a  Doctor  of  Physick  [Thomas  Clayton  M.  D.  of  Glouces- 
ter county,  formerly  of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  England], 
my  other  brother  [Arthur,  who  died  in  1733]  has  been  dead  these 
six  years.  I  have  a  wife,  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  my  eldest 
Son  of  the  same  name  w'th  Myself  I  intend  to  send  him  to  Cam- 
bridji^e  as  soon  as  he  is  qualified  for  such  studies. 

I  am  your  very  humble  servant, 

John  Clayton. 


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LETTERS  OF  WASHINGTON. 


[The  letters  here  printed,  from  originals  and  copies  in  posses- 
sion of  this  Society,  do  not  appear  in  the  collections  of  either 
Sparks  or  Ford.] 

[To  General  Smallwood.] 

Head  Quarters,  Valley  Forge,  5  June,  1778. 
Dear  Sir: 

In  your  last  of  the  2nd  instant  with  which  I  was  favored, 
you  advised  me  that  the  motions  of  the  ennemies  ships  were 
closely  watched.  That  40  sail  had  passed  Wilmington  and 
anchored  two  miles  below  New  Castle. 

As  it  is  of  much  consideration  *  *  the  number  that  have 
passed  thro'  the  Cheveax  de  frieze  and  their  present  position,  I 
would  therefore  wish  to  have  the  matter  attended  to  with  a  good 
deal  of  care,  and  communicated  as  soon  as  possible. 

Our  information  from  Philadelphia*  still  wears  the  same  face. 
They  have  crossed  their  waggons  and  a  quantity  of  pork  and 
bread  over  Cooper's  ferry.  A  correspondent  mentions  that  this 
rout  will  be  directed  by  different  roads  to  Edenborough,  two 
miles  below  New  Castle  on  the  Jersey  side,  where  he  learns  they 
mean  to  embark.     But  this  is  mere  conjecture. 

I  am  Sir. 

Your  humble  Serv't, 

G.  Washington. 
Gen.  Smallwood. 


[To  General  Smallwood.] 

Philad',  1st  January,  1779. 
Dear  Sir: 

The  inclosed  was  addressed  to  me  by  the  Board  of  War,  at 
the  request  of  Mr.  Rutherford.  As  it  appears  from  the  State  ol 
the  Case  that  an  officer  is  necessary  to  keep  the  man  employed 
in  the  Shoe  Factory  at  Newark  in  order,  I  think  it  will  be  best 


*  On  June  18,  the  British  evacuated  Philadelphia. 


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for  you  to  appoint  one  for  thdt  purpose.  You  may  perhaps 
know  more  of  the  mattei  than  I  do,  and  therefore  should  there 
be  any  misrepresentation,  you  are  at  liberty  to  act  as  you  shall 
judge  proper.     I  am  Dear  Sir, 

Your  most  ob't  Serv't, 

G.  Washington. 
P.  S. — at  all  events  I  would  have  the  men  left  at  Newark  for 
the  winter. 

To  Gen*l  Small  wood. 


[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Head  Quarters,'*^  July  12,  1779. 
Dear  Sir: 

In  mine  to  you  of  the  5th,  I  requested  you  to  attend  to  the 
movements  of  the  enemy  on  the  river  below,  &  for  this  purpose 
to  engage  the  country  people  as  look  outs  along  the  river,  I 
would  wish  you  to  have  such  persons  on  whose  fidelity  &  vigi- 
lance you  can  depend,  stationed  at  different  places,  as  low  as 
fort  Lee,  that  we  may  have  the  earliest  intelligence  of  any  col- 
lection of  vessels,  or  boats,  or  embarkation  of  troops  on  the 
opposite  side.  The  enemy  are  now  manoeuvering  to  the  East- 
ward, it  may  be  to  direct  a  part  of  our  force  that  way,  then  to 
make  a  rapid  movement  back,  embark  and  push  up  to  the  F'orts. 
We  are  obliged  to  give  a  certain  degree  of  countenance  &  pro- 
tection to  the  Country  which  will  occasion  a  detachment  of  our 
force  &  this  makes  it  the  more  essential  that  we  should  be  upon 
our  watch  this  way.  Your  activity  &  care  I  rely  upon.  I  am 
dear  Sir, 

Your  obed.  Serv't, 

Go.  Washin(;ton. 
To  Major  Lee. 

[Endorsed.  The  original  of  the  above  letter  was  obtained  for 
the  present  Minister  of  France  at  Washington.] 

*  Head  Quarters  were  at  New  Windsor,  New  York.  It  is  in  Orange 
county,  about  three  miles  southwest  of  Newburg.  On  July  15th,  Lee, 
with  the  infantry  of  his  legion,  was  engaged  at  the  capture  of  Stony 
Point,  but  his  force  was  only  a  reserve.  On  the  19th.  with  great  skill 
and  daring,  they  surprised  the  British  garrison  at  Paulus  Hook. 


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[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Head  Quarters  West  Point,*  7th  October,  1779. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  favor  of  the  3rd  inst.  came  to  hand  yesterday. 

I  shall  comply  with  your  present  engagements  to  the  spies 
which  you  have  promised  to  pay  in  specie,  but  as  we  have  so 
little  of  this  to  spare  for  even  the  most  pressing  and  important 
purposes  within  the  enemy's  lines,  you  will  be  careful  to  effect 
as  much  as  possible  with  each  other  means  as  we  have  in  our 
power;  and  as  economical  in  all  other  expenditures  as  our  circum- 
stances are  limited. 

It  is  an  object  at  present  particularly  interesting,  to  be  well 
informed  as  to  the  enemys  naval  force.  You  will  therefore  be 
attentive  to  this  as  well  as  to  such  other  intelligence  as  may  be 
of  use. 

I  have  given  a  warrant  to  Captain  Rudulph  t  for  the  sum  granted 
by  congress  for  the  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  con- 
cerned in  the  attack  of  Powels  Hook.  You  will  be  pleased  to 
distribute  this  money  in  proportion  to  the  pay  of  the  non-com- 
missioned officers  and  privates,  which  was  the  manner  observed 
in  the  case  of  Stony  Point.     I  am  D'  Sir, 

Your  most  obt.  Serv't, 

Go.  Washington. 

P.  S.  You  may  in  future  or  while  on  your  present  command 
mark  your  letters  private. 

I  presume  that  you  constantly  keep  an  intelligent  officer  to 
observe  the  arrival  or  casting  of  the  enemy's  vessels.  I  wish  to 
have  his  diary  transmitted  from  time  to  time,  say  once  a  week, 
and  more  especially  when  any  more  extraordinary  occurs  in  the 

Major  Lee,  at  English  Town,  Monmouth  Co.  [N.  J.] 

*  West  Point  was  Washington's  headquarters  from  July  21,  to  Novem- 
ber 28th. 

t  Michael  Rudulph,  Sergeant-Major  Lee's  Dragoons,  Apnl,  1778, 
Lieutenant,  July,  1779.  He  was  thanked  by  act  of  Congress  September, 
24,  1779,  for  his  gallantry  in  leading  the  forlorn  hope  at  Paulus  Hook,  and 
given  the  brevet  of  Captain.  He  served  to  the  close  of  the  Revolution 
and  continued  in  the  army  until  1793. 


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[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Head  Quarters,  Morristown,  13th  April,  1780. 
Dear  Sir: 

I  have  rec'd  your  fav'  of  the  loth.  I  am  sorry  to  find  that 
the  repairs  of  your  accoutrements  and  the  general  indisposition 
of  your  horses  will  prevent  your  moving  so  far  as  could  have 
been  wished,  but  I  have  confidence  in  your  making  no  greater 
delay  than  is  absolutely  necessary. 

The  Board  of  War  having  power  to  order  a  General  Court 
Martial,  the  prisoner  you  mention  may  be  tried  at  Philadelphia, 
but  it  is  worth  considering  whether  you  can  have  him  tried  and 
the  proceedings  sent  up  to  me  for  my  approbation  which  will  be 
necessary,  and  an  answer  returned  before  the  comp'  will  prob- 
ably march,  the  example  should  the  man  be  found  guilty  and 
sentenced  to  death,  is  wanted  more  immediately  for  your  own 
people  than  the  army  at  large  and  therefore  the  desired  good 
effect  would  be  lost  should  you  march  before  the  trial  can  be 
regularly  gone  thro*  and  the  proceedings  confirmed. 

You  omitted  to  enclose  the  letter  from  Virginia  to  which  you 
refer. 

I  wish  you  an  expeditious,  safe  and  agreeable  march  and  every 
honor  and  success  to  yourself  and  your  Corps,  as  I  am  with 
great  Regard,  Dear  Sir, 

Y'  most  Ob't  Serv't, 

Geo.  Washington. 
[To  Major  Lee  ?] 

[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Head  Q'\  Ramapough,  June  28,  1780. 
Dear  Sir: 

I  have  received  your  letter  of  this  afternoon.  I  have  had 
it  for  some  days  in  contemplation  to  have  the  attempt  made  to 
which  you  allude,  but  from  the  information  I  had  received  with 
respect  to  the  Enemy's  situation  and  post,  I  did  not  imagine 
that  it  could  be  made  nor  do  I  now,  in  the  way  you  seem  to 
think  it  may.  I  wish  you  to  inform  me  more  particularly  than 
you  have  of  their  force,  according  to  the  intelligence  you  may 


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have  obtained  and  of  the  nature  of  their  work;  and  that  you 
will  still,  if  circumstances  admit,  gain  a  more  perfect  knowledge 
of  them  than  you  may  now  possess  &  communicate  it  to  me.     I 
am,  D'  Sir,  with  great  regard  &  esteem, 
Your  most  Ob't, 

[To  Henry  Lee  ?] 

[Endorsed.]    June  28,  1780.     Gen'l  Washington. 


Head  Quarters,*  July  19,  1780. 
D'  Sir: 

I  have  received  your  letter  of  the  i6th.  You  mistook  the 
point  of  giving  me  intelligence  as  by  recurring  to  your  instruc- 
tions you  will  find  I  now  depend  on  you  for  information  of  every 
occurrence,  will  save  General  Foreman  f  the  trouble  of  a  busi- 
ness which  I  could  only  with  propriety  request  the  favor  of  him 
to  discharge  till  another  could  be  sent  to  undertake  it.  For  the 
future  you  will  make  a  report  every  two  days  of  the  appearance 
at  the  Hook,  in  which  the  more  detail  the  better.  Tis  almost 
as  important  for  us  to  know  what  does  not  happen  as  what  does 
happen. 

In  case  of  anything  extraordinary  it  is  instantly  to  be  dis- 
patched, particularly  the  sailing  of  the  fleet  in  or  out. 

It  is  become  unnecessary  for  the  present  that  Captain  Dennis 
&  the  Gentlemen  with  him  should  remain  at  Monmouth,  I  wish 
to  see  them  at  Head  Quarters  in  their  way  home,  when  I  shall 
give  them  some  further  explanations. 

I  am,  with  the  greatest  regard, 

Yr.  mo.  Obit.  Servant, 

G.  Washington. 

P.  S.  I  want  a  most  exact  acount  of  the  force  of  the  enemy's 
fleet. 

[To  Major  Lee  ?] 


*  At  Preakness,  New  Jersey. 

t  David  Forman,  Brigadier-General,  New  Jersey  Militia. 


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180  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Head  Quarters,*  July  24,  1780. 

I  am  informed  by  Gen* I  Foreman  that  there  are  a  great 
number  of  horses  in  those  parts  of  Monmouth  County  within  the 
enemy's  power  belonging  to  disaffected  persons.  To  prevent 
the  enemy's  having  the  benefit  of  these  &  to  have  it  ourselves 
you  will  immediately  set  about  driving  off  from  the  part  of  the 
county  under  the  above  description  all  the  horses  fit  for  wagon 
&  riding  service  &  deliver  them  to  the  Quarter  Master  Gen. 
giving  certificates  to  the  persons  from  whom  they  are  taken, 
descriptive  as  far  as  you  can  of  the  quality  &  value  of  horses, 
you  will  do  the  same  with  respect  to  fat  cattle,  delivering  these 
to  the  commissary  General. 

The  moment  you  have  executed  this  business  you  will  proceed 
to  Easton  f  where  you  will  receive  directions  from  Q'  M'  general 
for  an  impress  of  teams  in  Pennsylvania.  These  objects  are  of 
the  greatest  importance  at  the  present  juncture  &  I  am  per- 
suaded you  will  execute  them  with  your  usual  prudence,  decision 
&  celerity.  I  wish  you  to  consult  gen'l  Foreman  for  what  relates 
to  Monmouth. 

I  am  with  the  greatest  regard. 

Your  most  obt.  serv't, 

(Signed.)        Go.  Washington. 

Copy.     [Endorsed:  The  original  of  the  above  is  given  to  Mrs. 
James  Monroe,  of  N.  Y.] 


[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Mount  Vernon,  18  June,  1786. 
My  dear  Sir: 

Under  cover  of  your  favor  of  the  21st  of  April,  which  came 
duly  to  hand  was  a  letter  from  Arthur  Young,  J  Esq.  (author  of 

*At  Preakness. 
t  Easton,  Pa. 

t  The  well  known  English  writer  on  agriculture.     Washington's  let- 
ters to  him  were  published  in  1801. 


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LETTERS    OF  WASHINGTON.  181 

the  Tour  thro'  G.  Britain  and  Ireland,  with  observations  on  the 
husbandry  of  those  Kingdoms)  informing  me  that  he  had  sent 
me  a  compleat  sett  of  all  his  works.  As  these  have  never  yet 
come  to  hand,  nor  any  advice  of  them,  you  would  do  me  a  favor 
(if  you  can  recollect  of  whom  you  received  the  letter)  by  enquir- 
ing whether  or  not  it  was  accompanied  with  a  parcel.  Mr.  Young 
in  his  letter  to  me  says  these  books  were  sent  to  the  care  of  Mr. 
Athowes,  Merch.  of  London ;  but  why  Mr.  Athowes  should  send 
the  letter  without  the  parcel  or  either  by  way  of  New  York,  I 
cannot  easily  conceive,  as  there  are  vessels  from  London  passing 
my  door  (the  situation  of  which  is  well  known  to  him)  every  day. 
The  winter  &  spring  have  been  exceedingly  opposed  to  our 
works  at  the  Great  Falls.*  The  incessant  rains  often  preventing 
and  at  all  times  retarding  the  removal  of  earth.  The  latter  rains 
in  May,  which  were  continual  for  more  than  20  days  have  pro- 
duced very  calamitous  effects  in  this  country.  Half  the  wheat 
(some  say  a  great  deal  more)  &  ^  of  the  Rye  are  blasted  and 
the  ground  surcharged  to  that  degree  with  water,  as  to  have 
rendered  plowing  impracticable,  which  has  involved  the  Indian 
corn  that  did  come  up,  so  deeply  in  weeds  &  grass  as  to  exhibit 
a  melancholy  prospect  in  level  lands  of  this  crop  also.  The 
advantages  with  which  the  inland  navigations  of  the  rivers 
Potomack  t  &  James  are  pregnant,  must  strike  every  mind  that 
reasons  upon  the  subject;  but  there  is  I  perceive  a  diversity  of 
sentiment  respecting  the  benefits  &  the  consequences  which  may 
flow  from  the  free  &  immediate  use  of  the  Mississippi.  J  My 
opinion  of  this  matter  has  uniformly  been  the  same  &  no  light  in 
which  I  have  been  able  to  consider,  the  subject  is  likely  to  change 
it.  It  is  neither  to  relinquish  nor  to  push  our  claim  to  the  naviga- 
tion, but  in  the  meanwhile  to  open  all  the  communications  which 


*Of  Potomac. 

tOn  May  17,  1785,  the  Potomac  Navigation  Company  was  organized 
at  Alexandria,  with  Washington  as  President.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  owned  twenty-four  shares  in  the  company,  valued  by  him  at  |2o,666. 
Healso  left  five  shares  in  the  James  River  Company,  valued  at  $500. 
The  James  River  Company  was  incorporated  in  1784. 

X  The  intense  desire  of  the  West  that  the  navigation  of  the  .Mississippi 
might  be  made  free,  made  it  a  most  important  subject  in  American  poU 
itics,  and  at  one  time  threatened  to  sever  the  Union. 


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182  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

nature  has  afforded  between  the  Atlantic  States  8c  the  western 
territory  &  to  encourage  the  use  of  them  to  the  utmost.  In  my 
judgement  it  is  a  matter  of  very  serious  concern  to  the  well  being 
of  the  former,  to  make  it  the  interest  of  the  latter  to  trade  with 
them ;  without  which,  the  ties  of  consanguinity,  which  are  weak- 
ening every  day,  will  soon  be  no  band,  and  we  shall  be  no  more 
a  few  years  hence,  to  the  Inhabitants  of  that  Country,  than  the 
Spaniards  or  British  are  to  them  at  this  day;  perhaps  not  so 
much,  because  commercial  it  is  w*""  introduce  others;  and 
united  are  difficult  to  be  broken.  With  the  Spaniard  these 
must  take  place  if  the  navigation  of  the  Mississippi  is  opened. 
Clear  I  am  that  it  would  be  for  the  interest  of  the  Western  Set- 
tlers as  low  down  the  Ohio  as  the  big  Kanawha  and  back  to  the 
lakes  to  bring  their  produce  through  one  of  the  channels  I  have 
mentioned;  and  the  way  must  be  cleared  &  made  easy  *  *  to 
them  or  else  the  ease  with  which  the  people  glide  down  stream. 
[Illegible — worn  off.]  *  *  Whenever  the  new  states  become 
so  populous  and  so  extended  to  the  Westward  as  really  to  need 
it,  there  is  no  power  that  can  deprive  them  of  the  use  of  the 
Mississippi.  Why  then  should  we  prematurely  urge  a  matter 
which  is  disagreeable  to  others,  and  may  be  attended  with  em- 
barrassing consequences  if  it  is  our  interest  to  let  it  sleep  ?  It 
may  require  some  management  to  quiet  the  restless  &  impetuous 
spirits  of  Kentucky  (of  whose  conduct  I  am  more  apprehensive 
in  the  business  than  I  am  of  all  the  opposition  that  will  be  given 
by  the  Spaniards).  Mrs.  Washington  &  George  &  his  wife  join 
me  in  comphments  &  good  wishes  for  Mrs.  Lee  &  yourself. 
With  very  great  esteem  &.  regard,  I  am  D'  Sir, 
Your  affec.  H"«  Serv*, 

Go.  Washington. 
I  will  thank  you  for  your  care  of  the  enclosed. 


Copy.  [To  Henry  Lee.] 

Mount  Vernon,  Mar.  14,  1789. 
My  dear  sir: 

Your  letter  of  this  date  was  put  into  my  hands  on  my  return 
from  a  ride,  at  the  moment  dinner  was  waiting,  for  which  reason 
I  have  only  time  to  express  in  a  single  word  my  love  and  thanks 


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for  the  sentiment  contained  in  it,  and  to  assure  you  that  my  best 
wishes,  in  which  Mrs.  Washington  unites,  are  presented  to  Mrs. 
Lee,  and  that  with  sincere  regard  and  affection, 

I  am  ever  yours, 

Go.  Washington. 

P.  S.     If  we  have  anything  which  can  be  of  service  to  Mrs. 
Lee  on  her  passage,  to  command  it. 

To  Mr.  Lee. 

A  True  Copy  from  the  Original.     Frederick  Wrench. 


Copy.  [To  Henry  Lee.] 

Philadelphia,  July  3rd,  1792. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  letter  of  the  20th  ulto.,  was  presented  by  Mr.  Wil- 
liams,* who  as  a  professional  man,  may  or  may  not  be  a  luminary 
of  the  first  magnitude  for  aught  I  know  to  the  Contrary. 

But  to  be  frank,  and  I  hope  you  will  not  be  displeased  with 
me  for  being  so,  I  am  so  heartily  tired  of  the  attendance  which 
from  one  cause  or  another  I  have  bestowed  on  these  kind  of 
people  that  it  is  now  more  than  two  years  since  I  have  resolved 
to  sit  no  more  for  any  of  them  and  have  adhered  to  it  except  in 
instances  when  it  has  been  requested  by  public  bodies  or  for  a 
particular  purpose  (not  of  the  Printers)  and  could  not  without 
offence  be  refused.  I  have  been  led  to  make  this  resolution,  for 
another  reason  besides  the  irksomeness  of  setting  and  the  time  I 
loose  by  it,  which  is  that  these  productions  have  in  my  estima- 
tion been  made  use  of  as  a  sort  of  tax  upon  individuals  by  being 
engraved  and  that  badly,  and  hawked  or  advertised  for  sale. 
With  very  great  Esteem  and  regard,  I  am  Dear  Sir, 

Most  obed't  Sc  aff.  sen, 

G.  Washington. 
To  Governor  Lee. 

*  Henry  Williams,  of  Boston,  Mass.  In  1794  he  painted  a  portrait  of 
Washington,  now  in  the  Masonic  Hall,  Alexandria. 


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184  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

[To  Henry  Lee.] 

Mount  Vernon,  Sept.  8th,  1797. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  favor  of  the  27th  ult.  with  its  enclosures  came  safe  to 

hand.     When  the  negociable  note  for  $1000  is  paid  and  the  30 

barrels  of  corn  are  received  the  amount  of  both  will  be  carried 

to  your  credit. 

I  am  told  that  the  presetii  price  of  wheat  in  Alexandria  is  8s. 
but  I  can  ^x  no  price  now  for  what  may  be  delivered  2,  3,  4  or 
even  6  monthes  hence  or  perhaps  not  at  all  (if  you  depend  upon 
purchasing)  in  case  of  a  rise  when  there  is  no  objection  to  deliv- 
ering any  specific  quantity,  or  at  any  specified  time.  All  I  can 
say  on  this  subject  is  that  if  you  have  wheat  of  your  own  to  dis- 
pose of  or  can  purchase  &  deliver  it  at  my  mill  where  with  my 
convenience  of  Boats  &  hands  it  can  be  done  as  expeditiously  as 
at  Alexandria,  I  will  allow  at  the  times  of  delivery  the  full  price 
that  is  given  in  cash  at  the  latter  place,  more  I  cannot,  less  I  do 
not  wish  to  do  as  the  price  of  my  flour  must  be  regulated  by  the 
cost  of  the  wheat. 

You  cannot  I  presume  be  at  a  loss  for  the  statement  of  the 
acct.  between  us,  when  you  will  recollect  that  $6,6661%  was  by 
agreement  with  interest  on  the  whole  sum  of  $20,000  to  have  been 
paid  me  on  the  first  day  of  December  last,  and  that  on  the  27th 
of  Feb^  following  you  paid  me  seven  hundred  dollars  in  cash  & 
gave  me  Read  &  Fords  obligation  to  transfer  70  shares  a  month 
after  in  the  Bank  of  Columbia  ;*  the  value  of  which  you  esti- 
mated at  40  dollars  each,  when  they  were  actually  selling  at  that 
moment  in  the  market  at  or  near  18  p.  ct.  under  par;  by  which 
I  actually  received  no  more  than  about  $2,300  in  lieu  of  $2,800, 
besides  loosing  a  months  interest  on  the  last  mentioned  sum  for 
which  my  receipt  was  passed.  As  the  payments  here  mentioned 
are  all  I  have  received  except  90  Barrells  of  corn,  delivered  the 

day  of  last  month  at  21s.     I  presume  the  object  of  your 

request  must  be  to  know  in  what  light  I  view  the  payment  of  the 
70  shares.  I  shall  therefore  frankly  declare  that  if  a  disinterested 
judge  is  to  be  found  who  will  say  that  I  ought,  under  the  circum- 
stances which   prevailed   at  the   time,  to  loose   the  diflference 

*  Washington  left  at  his  death  170  shares  in  the  Bank  of  Columbia, 
which  he  valued  at  $40  each. 


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between  the  nominal  and  real  price  of  the  shares,  I  will  never 
utter  another  word  upon  the  subject;  if  there  is  not,  or  if  there 
are  no  other  circumstances  of  which  I  am  ignorant,  I  conceive 
you  yourself  will  not  think  it  reasonable  or  just  that  I  should 
loose  near  $500  in  the  payment  of  $2,800  which  when  my  sole 
motive  for  receiving  these  shares  at  all  was  (inconveniently  for 
myself)  to  accommodate  you. 

You  say  you  informed  me  at  the  time  that  the  stock  was  a 
little  under  par,  &  as  you  have  said  so,  I  will  admit  it,  though 
my  hurried  situation  at  that  time  leaves  no  trace  thereof  on  my 
memory  —  while  there  are  several  facts  which  cannot  have 
escaped  yours,  namely,  that  more  than  once  (without  urging  it 
ardently),  I  informed  you  that  I  was  in  want  of  money  to  clear 
me  out  of  Philadelphia  properly,  and  was  obliged  at  last  to  leave 
the  city  without  providing  many  articles  of  which  my  family 
stood  in  need,  that  I  had  declined  renewing  Wilson's  notes 
when  they  were  proposed,  because  I  could  not  depend  upon 
converting  them  into  cash ;  that  the  offer  of  Columbia  stock  was 
late  and  unexpected,  of  course  seeing  no  other  prospect  of 
obtaining  any  part  of  the  Installment  I  took  them  as  an  accom- 
modation to  you ;  for  it  will  not  be  denied  that,  if  I  had  been 
disposed  to  appropriate  money  to  this  use,  I  could  &  would  have 
been  my  own  caterer,  as  I  was  *  *  the  city; — that  under 
these  circumstances,  hurried  &  perplexed  (at  the  close  of  the 
session)  as  I  then  was  with  Executive,  Legislative  business,  and 
with  the  necessary  attention  to  the  change  w'^^  was  about  to  take 
place  in  my  private  concerns  afforded  no  leisure  to  enquire  into 
the  value  of  Columbia  Bank  stock,  even  if  I  had  attended  to 
your  information  concerning  it,  and  I  should  from  a  cursory 
inquiry,  only  have  been  struck  with  no  other  idea  than  what 
occurs  continually  at  the  Bank  of  Alexandria,  viz:  that  just  be- 
fore a  dividend,  is  a  little  above,  and  just  after,  a  little  below  its 
nominal  value. 

I  have  expressed  myself  thus  because  it  comports  with  my 
ideas  of  truth,  justice  and  propriety;  but  I  mean  to  enter  into  no 
contention  or  dispute  on  the  subject,  being  with  very  great  esteem 
&  regard.  Dear  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  &  affectionate  H^'^  Ser't, 

To  General  Lee.  G.  Washington. 


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186  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

A  SERVICE  OF  PLATE,  1794. 


Richard  Corbin,  Esq"*, 

Bought  of  Richard  Davies,  Jeweller  &  Goldsmith, 

The  Comer  of  Clifford  Street,  New  Bond  Street. 
1794,  July  24. 
To  3  pair  of  neat  silver  Table  Candlesticks, 
2  plated  Branches  for  Do., 
2  neat  silver  Bracket  Candlesticks, 

1  18  Inch  Round  Waiter, 

2  8  Inch  Do.  Do., 
An  elegant  silver  Bread  Basket, 
24  french  Table  spoons, 
12  Do.  Dessert  Do., 
12  Do.  Tea  Do., 
2  Do.  Cream  Ladles, 

1  Do.  Soup  Ladle, 

2  Do.  Gravey  Spoons, 

1  Pair  Sugar  Tongs, 
An  elegant  sugar  Bason  Gilt  inside, 
2yi  Pint  Cream  Do.,  Do., 
An  Elegant  silver  Coffee  pot, 
an  Elegant  silver  Tea  pot, 
a  neat  plain  Do. ,  Do. , 
an  Elegant  silver  Cruet  frame  w"  rich  Cut  Glass 

Cruets  and  silver  Mountings  w**  Labels  and 

spoons  Compleat, 
a  pair  patent  silver  Snuffers, 
a  neat  silver  stand  for  Do. , 
a  pair  of  neat  plain  silver  Bottle  stands, 

3  pair  of  neat  oval  Salts,  Gilt  inside, 
6  Ladles  for  Do.  w"  Gilt  Bowls, 

2  Pint  silver  Goblets,  Gilt  inside, 
2j4  Pint  Do.,  Do., 
a  Quart  Tea  Bowl  Do. , 

4  silver  Sauce  Boats  with  Covers, 
4  Ladles  for  Do., 
a  3  Pint  Pudding  Dish, 
a  Quart  Do.,  Do., 


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an  Elegant   Epergne  w"  Branches  and  Large 

Bason  at  Top,  59.  17.  8. 

2  setts  of  Rich  Cut  Glasses  for  Do,  7.  o.  o. 

an  Elegant  Tea  pot  stand,  3.  o.  o. 

a  plain  Do.,  Do.,  2.  18.  o. 

Engraving  Arms  in  Mantle  on  Sundries,  1 2.  o.  6. 

Do.  Crest  and  Motto  on  Do.,  5.  3.  6. 

a  strong  Iron  Bound  Wainscot  Chest  Lined  and 

partitioned,  w**  Patent  Locks,  12.  12.  o. 


1799,  24  July. — 5  years  Int.  on  Do.,  5  pc', 
12  Aug'*. — 18  Days  Do.  Do., 


Bill  &  Rect,  Richard  Davies, 

;^568.  17.  4V4:.  1799.  118.  17.  4}{, 

[This  silver  was  probably  bought  by  Colonel  Richard  Corbin,  of  Lane- 
ville,  King  and  Queen  county,  Virginia,  for  one  of  his  sons.] 


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SAINSBURYS  ABSTRACTS. 

I  have  complete  copies  of  all  of  the  documents  in  the  English  Public 
Record  Office  relative  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia  from  1606  to  1627. 
Many  of  them  having  come  into  the  possession  of  the  crown  at  different 
times  during  the  past  two  hundred  years,  and  having  been  filed  by  dif- 
ferent [>ersons,  there  is  sometimes  in  the  calendar  confusion  of  arrange- 
ment, incorrect  dates,  etc.  Mr.  Sainsbury's  abstracts  of  these  papers 
which  are  now  being  published  in  this  Magazine,  are  very  interesting, 
but  they  are  not  always  correctly  dated  nor  sufficiently  complete.*  If 
permitted  I  will  give  some  notes  bearing  on  these  facts. 

Of  the  documents  in  the  Bargrave  case,  the  one  recorded  under 
^^Aprii,  1624,"'  and  given  in  this  Magazine,  VI,  pp.  379-381,  should 
come  first,  as  it  was  really  written  in  November,  1621.  It  contains  about 
twice  as  many  words  as  the  abstract. t    The  "'Articles^'  recorded  under 


*  I  made  use  of  these  documents  in  preparing  Thf  First  Republic  in  Amrrica,  but  for 
reasons  given  (pp.  xxiii-xxiv)  I  used  the  present  style  dates,  while  the  Abstracts  retain 
the  old  style. 

t  There  are  now  two  copies  of  this  document  in  the  British  Museum  ;  the  one  which  1 
used  was  received  only  a  few  years  ago,  with  the  Duke  of  Manchester  papers.  I  also 
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^' April  12,  1622,''  and  given  in  VI,  pp.  226-228,  were  written  early  in 
Febrtiary,  1622,  the  complete  document  contains  about  1,300  words. 
These  Articles  were  not  originally  enclosed  in  the  **  Petition  "  as  inferred 
from  the  Calendar  file.  They  were  delivered  to  the  Privy  Council  in 
person  by  Bargrave  in  February,  who  "  having  wayted  for  annswer  this 
10  weeks,"  on  April  12th  (O.  S.)  wrote  a  "  Petition  "  of  about  three 
hundred  words  to  the  Council,  to  have  **  the  said  Articles  forthwith  read 
and  answered,"  and  to  this  the  Privy  Council  replied  at  once.  I  have 
about  thirty-five  documents  (say  50,000  words) /re;  and  con  in  the  con- 
troversy between  Bargrave  and  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  on  which  I  based  my 
review  of  the  case  on  pages  446-448  and  elsewhere  in  The  First  Repub- 
lic. Bargrave  was  opposed  to  the  protection  ideas  of  Sir  Thomas 
Smith,  and  favored  the  free  trade  ideas  of  Sir  Edwin  Sandys,  but  he 
was  opposed  to  Sir  Edwin's  purpose  to  erect  a  free  popular  State  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  he  suggested  a  form  of  government  which  was  '*to  be  made 
according  to  (along  the  same  lines  as)  his  Majesties  Instructions  of  No- 
vember 4,  Jas."  (i6()6),  in  order  "to  tye  Virginia  in  a  dependence  on 
our  Crowne  of  England." 

The  abstracts  relative  to  kidnapping,  given  in  Vol.  VI,  pages  229-230, 
are  sufficiently  complete.  I  have  the  complete  "  Notes  of  the  Shipping," 
etc.,  mentioned  on  pages  231,  232;  and  I  also  have  complete  copies  of 
the  records  of  the  city  of  London,  of  sundry  city  companies,  and  of  sev- 
eral parishes  therein,  regarding  the  children  to  be  sent  to  Virginia,  etc. 
The  abstract  from  Sandys  to  Naunton  (pag^e  232)  is  sufficiently  com- 
plete. The  Petition  of  West,  etc.  (page  233),  contains  abuut  four  hun- 
dred words,  was  written  in  the  fall  of  1622  (see  First  Republic ,  pages 
508,509).  The  letters  of  the  Governor,  etc.  •  pages  236-239),  Wyatt 
(pages  239-240),  Sandys  (pages  241-243),  and  Davison  (pages  243-244), 
all  contain  about  twice  as  many  words  as  given  m  the  abstracts.  These 
letters  ought  to  be  published  in  full,  and  as  stated  in  the  preface  to  my 
book  (page  xxiii),  I  hope  to  be  able  to  publish  all  the  evidences  which  I 
have,  in  full,  some  day.  Mr.  Sainsbury  was  mistaken  in  thinking  the 
list  of  February  16  (O.  S.),  1624  (N.  S.)  Vol.  VI,  243,  was  sent  by  Davi- 
son, as  he  died  before  that  list  was  taken. 

The  abstracts  given  on  pp.  371,  372  are  sufficiently  complete;  but  the 
list  of  Patents  given  in  The  First  Republic  (pp.  628-630)  is  in  some  re- 
spects more  satisfactory.  The  date — 1623,  July  f — given  to  the  King's 
letter  to  the  Archbishops  (p.  373)  is  incorrect.  The  date  has  been  oblit- 
erated in  the  original  MS.  and  the  exact  date  is  not  known,  but  it  was 
written  in  1617.  (See  First  Republic,  p.  248.)  It  is  given  in  full  in 
Anderson's  History  of  the  Church  of  England  in  the  Colonies,  vol.  I, 
PP-  3»5»  3'6.  Canne's  letter  (p.  373)  and  the  Governor's  (pp.  374-377) 
contain  about  twice  as  many  words  each  as  the  abstracts.  The  letter 
"of  the  Privy  Council  to  the  governor  of  Virginia  "  (p.  381)  was  sent 
**  to  the  governor  of  the  Somers  Islands,"  and  is  given  in  full  in  Lefroy's 


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Memorials  of  the  Bermudas^  Vol.  I,  pp.  294,  295.  Mandeville's  letter 
(p.  382)15  nearly  complete.  Nethersole's  (pp.  383-384)  is  a  very  long 
gazette  letter  of  nearly  5,000  words;  but  his  reference  to  the  Virginia 
business  in  Parliament  is  completely  given  in  the  abstract.  His  letter  in 
Vol.  VII,  p.  39,  is  also  a  gazette  letter  of  nearly  2,000  words,  the  abstract, 
however,  is  sufficiently  complete.  The  Royal  commission  (VII,  39-43) 
of  July  25  (N.  S. )  1624,  is  given  in  full  in  the  **  Historical  Collections  " 
by  Hazard.  Vol.  I,  pp.  183-188.  Mandeville's  letter  (p.  43)  contains 
about  320  words;  the  correct  date  is  July  17  (O.  S.)  inclosed  in  it  were 
the  ** Orders"  (p.  44)  enacted  the  day  before,  July  16  (O.  S.)  containing 
about  three  times  as  many  words  as  the  abstract.  Heath's  letter  (p.  45) 
contains  about  250  words. 

The  Petition  of  the  Governor,  etc.  (VII,  p.  45)  is  nearly  complete, 
but  the  date  July  j,  1624,  is  incorrect;  it  was  written  prior  to  March  loth 
(N.  S.)  1624.  See  The  First  Republic  (pp.  572-574),  where  it  is  desig- 
nated as  (C.)  Inclosed  therein  was  '*  A  Brief  Declaration  [E.]  of  **the 
Plantation,"  which  was  published  by  the  State  of  Virginia  in  1874.  It 
was  one  of  the  papers  sent  to  England  by  Mr.  John  Pountis,  which  passed 
into  the  hands  of  Sir  Thomas  Merry.  In  the  abstract  the  name  of  John 
Pott  is  wrongly  placed  among  the  Burgesses.  The  paper  is  signed  as 
follows: 

Francis  VVVatt  [Governor]. 

George  Sandys,  Frans.  West.  Roger  Smythe,  George  Yeardley,  Raphe 
Hamor,  John  Pott  [Council]. 

Will.  Peirce,  William  Tucker,  Jabez  Whittaker,  etc.  [Burgesses], 
twenty  nine  signatures  in  all. 

The  following  who  signed  one  or  more  of  the  other  papers,  for  some 
reason  failed  to  sign  this:  J.  Pountis,  of  the  council,  who  carried  the 
document  to  England,  and  the  foilowing  Burgesses:  Samuel  Mathews  (a 
commissioner)  and  Edward  Gryndon,  from  Over  against  James  City; 
Isack  Maddison,  from  West  &  Sherley  Hundred;  John  Wilcocks,  from 
Eastern  Shore;  Samuel  Sharpe,  from  Sharpens  Plantation,  and  John 
Southern,  ixom  James  City. 

Warwick's  letter  (pp.  50,  51)  as  given  is  nearly  complete.  The  date 
of  Wyatt's  license  (p.  51)  is  also  given  as  September  18  (O.  §.)  1624,  in 
Hazard,  Vol.  I,  p.  235. 

I  fully  appreciate  the  great  importance  of  making  these  abstracts 
available  in  print  as  The  Virginia  Historical  Society  is  now  doing.  As 
a  rule  they  are  much  more  completely  given  than  in  the  published  calen- 
dars, and,  of  course,  far  more  so  than  in  the  published  histories.  I  do 
not  under  estimate  their  value,  and  I  hope  that  my  note  may  add  to  that 
value  by  giving  more  definite  descriptions  in  several  particulars. 

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Prepared  by  W.  G.  Stanard. 


(Note  to  507  Continued) 

*  Issue  of  Francis*  Poythress,  born  1668,  and ,  his  wife: 

Son  Robert,*  born  1690;  married ,  had: 

Peter,*  bom  1715;  married ,  had: 

Peter,*  born  1732;  married ,  had  issue  nine  daughters,  who  mar- 
ried as  follows:  Bland  Baird  Cocke,  Goode,  Harrison,  Lee,  Morrison, 
Epes,  Rubsamen,  and  one  son: 

Peter,'  married  Elizabeth  Bland,  daughter  of  Richard  Bland,  of  **  Jor- 
don's  Point." 

Issue  of  Peter,'  and  Elizabeth  (Bland)  Poythress: 

I.  Agnes,®  married  Roger  Atkinson;  2.  Mary,®  married  John  Batte; 
3.  Lucy,®  married  John  Epes;  4.  Susannah,®  married  Richard  Bland;  5. 
Sarah,®  married  first,  Richard  Lee;  second,  VVilloughby  Newton;  6. 
Elizabeth,®  married  William  Mayo;  7.  Jane,®  married  Joseph  Mayo;  8. 

Anne,®  married  John  Randolph;  9.  William,®  married  first, Boiling; 

second,  Mrs.  Marable,  and  had  issue: 

Elizabeth,*  who  married  Richard  Marks. 


(508)  Francis  Osborne,  1,300  acres  on  Appomattox  river,  "bound- 
ing north  on  the  river,"  west  upon  the  land  of  Mr.  William  Farrar,  and 
east  on  Charles  Citty  [  1  ]  now  in  the  tenure  of  Captain  Francis  Epes. 
Due  in  right  of  his  late  father  Jenkin  Osborne,  who  transported  twenty- 
six  persons  (names  below).     Granted  by  Harvey,  July  14,  1637. 

Mary  Welch,  William  Burch,  Thomas  Alson,  John  Congley,  Thomas 
Bateman,  Thomas  Tyler,  George  Purser,  Thomas  May,  Richard  Gaily, 
Samuel  Rumsby,  Richard  Aboge,  Thomas  Batye,  William  Waller,  John 
Yeo,  Joane  Walters,  John  Tinwell,  William  Wright,  Symon  Trencher, 
William  Lighthollier,  Henr>^  Ward,  Thomas  Lewis,  William  Austin,  two 
negroes,  one  negro  more,  Jon.  Chanell. 

note. 
[i]  Charles  City  was  on  the  site  of  the  present  City  Point,  in  Prince 
George  county.     Most  of  the  land  around  it  is  owned  by  the  family  of 
the  late  Dr.  Richard  Eppes.     This  land  has  descended  in  the  family 

*  Miss  Laura  Russell,  of  Petersburg,  great-granddaughter  of  Mar>-8  Poythress,  says 
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from  the  first  proprietor,  Captain  Francis  Epes,  or  Eppes,  making  an 
ownership  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-two  years,  the  oldest  in  Virginia, 
and  probably  the  oldest  in  the  United  States. 


(509)  Thomas  Causey  [i],  500  acres  in  the  county  of  Charles  City, 
300  of  which  begins  at  the  mouth  of  the  Appomattox,  at  the  south  side, 
bounded  west  upon  a  great  creek,  and  east  upon  a  small  creek  called 
Causey's  Field  Creek;  and  the  other  200  beginning  at  the  said  Causey's 
Field  Creek,  and  adjoining  the  land  of  Captain  Francis  Epes,  and  bound- 
ing west  upon  the  said  creek.  Due  for  the  transportation  often  persons 
(names  below).    Granted  by  Harvey,  July  14,  1637. 

William  Maurice,  Jon.  Chambers,  Daniel  Field,  Richard  Boddicoutt, 
Jon.  Craft,  Robert  King,  Jon.  Barber,  Jon.  Bridgers,  Jon.  Hodges,  Law- 
rence Farbume. 

NOTE. 

[i]  The  land  here  granted  was  afterwards  known  as  **  Cawsons,"  and 
was  a  seat  of  the  Blands.  It  is  evident,  from  the  grant  that  Charles  City 
(or  City  Point)  was  not  considered  the  mouth  of  the  Appomattox,  but 
that  this  was  a  short  distance  higher  up  where  the  river  narrowed. 


(510)  Richard  Ward,  100  acres  in  Varina,  in  the  county  of  Henrico; 
bounded  South  West  by  Two  Mile  Creek,  and  on  the  South  by  the  land 
now  in  the  possession  of  John  Barker,  and  extending  East,  North  East 
to  the  Four  Mile  Creek.  Due:  50  acres  for  his  own  personal  adventure 
and  50  by  purchase  from  Bartholomew  Farthing,  and  due  Farthing  for 
the  transportation  of  a  servant  called  Sarah  Breman.  Granted  by  Har- 
vey July  14,  1637. 

(511)  Alice  Edloe,  100  acres  in  the  county  of  Henrico,  two  and  a 
half  miles  above  Harroe  Attucks,  towards  the  falls,  on  the  same  side 
with  Harroe  Attucks,  in  a  swamp  between  the  land  of  William  Coxe  [i] 
and  the  land  already  granted  to  the  said  Alice  Edloe,  containing  350 
acres.  Due  for  the  transpostation  of  two  persons,  John  Williams  and 
William  Attaway.     Granted  by  Harvey  July  14,  1637. 

NOTE. 

[i]  For  a  long  time— into  the  present  century,  a  family  of  Cox  owned 
farms  called  *' Arrowhattucks,"  on  the  north  side  of  the  River  just  above 
Dutch  Gap,  and  "  Newstead,"  on  the  same  side,  a  short  distance  higher 
up-  

(512)  Captain  Henry  Browne,  [i]  Esq.,  of  the  Counsel  of  State; 
2,250  acres  in  the  county  of  James  City,  on  the  south  side  of  James  river, 
beginning  at  the  half  way  tree.     Due  viz:  2,000  acres  granted  him  by 


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order  of  Court  December  12,  1634,  upon  the  terms  and  conditions  therein 
expressed;  and  250  acres  by  purchase  from  Captain  William  Perry  and 
Captain  Thomas  Osborne,  overseers  of  the  will  of  John  Smith,  who  by 
said  will,  directed  them  to  sell  said  land.  Granted  by  Harvey  July  14, 
1637. 

Head  rights:  Captain  Henry  Browne,  Lance  Bristoe,  William  Packett, 
Nico.  [  ?  ]  Nutt,  Samuel  Flood,  Richard  Edwards,  Robert  Jones,  Samuel 
Burfoote,  John  Retsham,  Mingo  a  negro,  Samuel  Swann,  William  Bill- 
brough,  Richard  Powell,  Stephen  Browne,  Ralph  Wood,  Alice  Mills, 
David  Warner,  France  a  negro,  Jon.  a  negro,  two  women  negroes.  These 
being  transported  at  the  charge  of  Captain  Browne. 

Mr.  Thos.  Hinton  [2],  Mrs.  Ann  Browne,  Mr.  Andrew  Noyce,  John 
Morecock,  Geoi^e  Jordan,  Amey  Humphrey,  William  Berry,  Haulford 
Stubbs  (these  in  right  of  his  wife);  Richard  Christmas,  William  Bow, 
Richard  Makester,  Henry  Hart,  William  Westwood. 


[1]  This  grant  was  "Four  Mile  Tree,"  long  the  well  known  seat  of 
the  family  of  Browne  in  Surry  county.  A  lengthy  note  on  this  family, 
derived  from  the  records  of  Surry  was  published  in  this  Magazine  III, 
148-153.  Some  additional  notes  from  records  in  regard  to  this  family 
will  be  printed  in  a  future  number.     They  are  not  now  accessible. 

[2]  Neill,  in  Virginia  Vefusta,  was  mistaken  in  thinking  that  Sir 
Thomas  Hinton  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  Council.  Thomas  Hinton, 
Esq.,  (as  he  is  always  described  in  the  records)  was  a  member  in  1634-35, 
and  was  dismissed  by  Governor  Harvey. 


(513)  Lieutenant  Richard  Popelev  [i],  700  acres  in  the  Lower 
County  of  New  Norfolk,  on  the  Cheseapean  shore,  within  the  territory' 
of  Lynhaven,  abutting  northerly  on  the  land  of  William  Layton,  and 
westerly  on  the  river.  Due  in  right  of  his  marriage  with  Elizabeth, 
relict  of  Henry  Sothell,  and  due  said  Sothell  for  the  transportation  of 
fourteen  persons  (names  below).     Granted  by  Harvey  July  14,  1637. 

Elias  Light,  Richard  Light,  William  Layton,  George  Lentall,  Willis 
Basnett,  Jason  Right,  John  Eves,  Sarah  Polmer,  John  Duncombe,  Row- 
land Buckley,  Thomas  Heath,  Ralph  Simpkins,  Hanna  Waddington, 
Eliz.  Alcutt. 

note. 

[i]  Richard  Popely  came  to  Virginia  in  the  ship  Bona  Nova,  1620, 
and  in  January,  1624,  was  living  at  Elizabeth  City.  He  was  then  aged 
twenty-six  years. 

(514)  William  Mills,  350  acres  in  the  county  of  James  City,  on  the 
south  side  of  the  river,  bounded  on  the  north  by  Smith's  Fort.     Due  for 


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the  transportation  of  seven  persons  (names  below).    Granted  by  Harx'ey 
July  19.  1637. 

William  Burges,  William  Godfrey,  William  HoUiday,  John  Garrett, 
Robert  Bateman,  John  Grange,  Nicholas  Aldey. 

(515)  John  Graves  [i],  600  acres  in  the  county  of  Elizabeth  City, 
near  the  upper  end  of  Back  River,  and  adjoining  the  land  of  Captain 
Adam  Thoroughgood,  and  extending  on  the  eastward  to  the  now  dwell- 
ing house  of  Oliver  Vankerke.  Due  by  descent  from  his  father,  Thomas 
Graves,  who  transported  Katherine  Graves  his  wife,  John  Graves  the 
patentee,  Thomas  Graves,  Jr.,  and  eight  persons:  Henry  Singleton, 
Thomas  Edge,  Robert  Phillips,  Thomas  Griggs,  Thomas  Phillips,  Fran- 
cis White,  William  Synbee,  James  Packett.  Granted  by  Harvey  August 
9.  1637. 

NOTE. 

[i]  Probably  John  Graves  was  son  of  Captain  Thomas  Graves,  who 
was  a  Burgess  in  1619,  and  1632.     See  this  Magazine  II,  70. 

(516)  Henry  Poole,  Gent,  [i]  150  acres  in  the  Lower  County  of 
New  Norfolk,  in  the  Territorie  of  Lynhaven,  adjoining  the  land  lately 
belonging  to  Henry  Burthurne,  now  in. the  possession  of  Lt.  Richard 
Popely.  Due:  50  acres  for  his  own  personal  adventure,  and  100  acres 
for  the  transportation  of  two  persons,  Joseph  Smith  and  James  Cooke. 
Granted  by  Harvey,  August  9th,  1637. 

NOTE. 

[1]  Henry  Poole  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Eliza- 
beth Cit>'  county  in  1647.  See  grant  to  Robert  Poole  and  note,  this 
Magazine,  I,  440. 

(517)  Leonard  Yeo  [i].  850  acres  in  the  county  of  Elizabeth  Cit>% 
upon  the  head  of  a  branch  of  the  old  Poquoson  Creek,  bounded  on  the 
south  by  the  lands  of  George  Hulland  and  John  Laydon,  north  by  the 
New  Poquson,  and  west  by  the  ridge  of  land.  Due  for  the  transporta- 
tion of  sixteen  persons  (names  below).     Granted  by  Harvey,  August  9, 

1637. 

Leonard  Yeo,  Richard  Godley,  John  Moyes,  Thomas  Chapman,  John 
Cole,  Nathaniell  Martin,  Owen  Noes  and  two  negroes,  Walter  Bayne, 
Rolland  Garrett,  Nicholas  Crouch,  Thomas  Lovell,  John  Spurway, 
Richard  Stephens,  John  Oldis,  John  Cooper.  [2] 


[i]  Leonard  Yeo  settled  in  Elizabeth  City  county,  and  was  long  a  man 

of  prominence  there.     In  1639,  he  was  one  of  the  viewers  of  tobacco 

appointed  throughout  the  Colony.     At  the  session  of  February,  1644-5, 

as  **  Capt.  Yeo,'*  he  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Eliz- 

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abeth  City  county,  and  was  again  a  member  at  sessions  of  September, 
1663,  and  June  and  October,  1666. 

In  1666  he  was  commander  in  chief  of  Elizabeth  City  county  {Robin- 
son's Noies)y  and  in  the  next  year  held  the  same  command  while  the 
hostile  Dutch  fleet  was  in  Hampton  Roads.  He  died  in  or  before  June, 
1670,  as  there  was  at  that  time  a  suit  in  the  General  Court  against  Charles 
Moryson,  who  married  the  executrix  of  Colonel  Yeo,  deceased.  This 
was  Captain  Charles  Moryson,  afterwards  commander  of  Elizabeth  City. 
After  Mor>'son's  death,  his  widow  Rebecca,  who  had  been  the  widow 
of  Colonel  Yeo,  married  Colonel  John  Lear,  of  the  Virginia  Council. 
The  will  of  George  Yeo,  of  Elizabeth  City  (probably  a  descendant 
of  Colonel  Leonard  Yeo),  was  dated  March  15,  1742,  and  proved  April 
20,  1743.  He  gives  to  his  cousin  George  Arnold,  merchant  in  London, 
certain  tenements  in  the  Burrow  of  Hatherly,  commonly  called  by  the 
name  of  Wadlands,  and  Finch  Parks,  gives  him  also  the  plate  he 
brought  from  England;  to  cousin  John  Selden,  20/",  all  his  law  books, 
the  Whole  Duly  of  Man,  Sherlock  on  Providence,  St.  Augustine's 
Meditations;  to  Joseph,  son  of  cousin  John  Selden,  his  Dictionary  and 
Grammar;  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  said  cousin  Selden,  one  silver  rib- 
bon and  a  book  entitled  The  Master's  Blessing;  to  Robert  Brough,  son 
of  William  Brough,  deceased,  '*  Owen's  Epigrames,  Norvell's  Cate- 
chism, Thomas  Akempis  in  Latin  and  one  in  English,  Sherlock  on 
Judgm't  and  the  five  bishops  and  the  doctors; "  various  legacies  of 
clothing,  lurniture  and  books  to  his  wife's  daughters  Mary  and  Grace 
Selden,  and  to  her  granddaughters  Agnes  and  Ann  Howard  and  Mary 
Douglas;  cousin  George  Arnold  in  Great  Britain  and  cousin  George 
Selden,  of  Virginia,  executors. 

Colonel  Leonard  Yeo  had  at  least  one  brother  in  Virginia.  On  Sep- 
tember 6,  1654,  Robert  Yeo  was  granted  650  acres  in  Westmoreland 
county.  On  October  11,  1656,  Leonard  Yeo,  brother  and  administrator 
of  Robert  Yeo,  made  an  assignment  of  this  patent. 

There  were  others  of  the  name  in  the  Colony.  About  1649  Hugh  Yeo 
appears  as  a  merchant  in  Accomac  and  Northampton  counties.  In  the 
records  of  Northampton,  i68r,  is  a  notice  of  Justinian  Yeo,  of  Harton, 
in  the  parish  of  Hartland,  in  the  county  of  Devon,  England,  brother  of 
Hugh  Yeo,  of  Virginia.  The  name  reminds  of  Salvation  Yeo,  of 
'*  VV^estward  Ho." 

The  Western  Antiquary,  a  periodical  published  at  Plymouth,  Eng., 
gives  some  notices  of  the  Devonshire  Yeos.  Leonard  Yeo  was  M.  P. 
for  Totnes,  1555  and  i557-'58,  and  Mayor  of  Totnes  1558  and  1570.  The 
Yeo  family  was  connected  with  Totnes  for  some  years,  and  in  the 
church  were  formerly  tombs  of  George  and  William  Yeo.  VV^estcote,  in 
his  Devonshire  families,  mentions  the  Yeos  of  Hatherliegh  (see  the  will 
of  George  Yeo  above).     Rev.  William  Yeo,  who  was  educated  at  Exe- 


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ter,  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  was  in  1662,  ejected  from  the  parish  of 
Wilborough  under  the  act  of  uniformity. 

[2]  In  the  Virginia  General  Court,  June  1670,  John  Cooper,  son  of 
John  Cooper  deceased,  sued  Charles  Moryson  as  husband  of  the  execu- 
trix of  Colonel  Yeo.  This  may  have  been  the  name  spelled,  generally, 
Cowper,  but  pronounced  Coo[>er. 


(519)  William  Prior  [i],  gent,  600  acres  in  the  county  of  Charles 
River,  being  a  long  sandy  point  to  the  northward  of  Queen's  Creek  [2], 
about  four  miles  from  the  creek,  bounded  on  the  east  by  the  main  river. 
Due  for  the  transportation  of  twelve  persons  (names  below).  Granted 
by  Harvey,  August  9,  1637. 

Robert  Fossett,  Stephen  Benn,  Grace  Amison,  Abraham  Keene, 
Walter  Downes,  Jon.  Burch,  Bamaby  Barnes,  Anthony  Grimston, 
Thomas  Wilkinson,  William  Peirce.  Cornelius  Swillivan,  Thomas  Attera. 

This  patent  was  surrendered  and  renewed  in  the  name  of  Joseph 
Croshaw,  by  Sir  John  Harvey,  Kt. 


[i]  William  Prior,  of  Charles  River  (afterwards  York)  county,  was 
J.  P.  for  that  county  from  1633  to  his  death  in  1646.  For  notice  of  him 
and  an  abstract  of  his  will,  see  this  Magazine,  III,  184. 

[2]  Queen's  Creek,  still  retaining  the  name,  rises  near  Williamsburg, 
and  flows  into  York  river.  It  is  navigable  for  small  vessels  to  within 
a  mile  of  the  city,  and  shortly  before  the  Revolution  there  was  a  plan, 
which  met  with  legislative  encouragement,  to  cut  a  canal  from  Queen's 
to  Archer's  Hope  creek,  which  flows  into  the  James. 


(520)  John  Chew,  gent.,  700  acres  in  the  county  of  Charles  River 
[now  York],  bounded  west  by  north,  by  the  500  acres  formerly  granted 
to  him,  August  ist,  1637,  and  north  by  east  by  the  main  river,  east  by 
south  by  the  great  bay  [1].  Due  for  the  transportation  of  fourteen  per- 
sons (names  below).     Granted  by  Harvey,  August  9,  1637. 

William  Winifret,  George  Goodwin,  Thomas  Tompkins,  John  Vaughan, 
Robert  Parr,  Christopher  Evans,  Ann  Waterman,  Amall  Freeze,  Walter 
Hazleward,  one  negro  woman,  Jon.  Chew,  1622,  Jon.  Chew,  1633  [the 
dates  of  two  of  his  arrivals  from  England]. 


[i]  This  patent  was  doubtless  at  a  place  in  the  lower  part  of  York 
county,  which  now  stands  on  the  maps  as  **Toos  Point,"  a  corruption 
of  Chew's  Point. 


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GENEALOGY. 


THE  FITZHUGH  FAMILY. 

Though  the  Virginia  Fitzhughs  bear  the  same  arms  as  the  old  Barons 
Fitzhugh,  of  Ravensworth,  no  descent  from  the  ennobled  family  has 
ever  been  traced,  nor,  though  it  is  possible  that  the  immigrant  to  Virginia 
was  descended  remotely  from  some  younger  son,  is  it  at  all  probable 
that  the  line  will  ever  be  worked  out.  It  is  probable,  however,  that  by 
proper  research  in  England,  the  ancestry  of  the  immigrant  may  be  car- 
ried back  several  generations  further  than  there  is  now  any  knowledge 
of.  Probably  Colonel  William  Fitzhugh  was  from  a  branch  of  the  fam- 
ily of  Fitzhugh,  of  Wolcott,  in  Oxfordshire,  of  which  there  is  in  the  vis- 
itation of  Oxfordshire,  1574  (and  reprinted  in  this  Magazine,  I,  412)  a 
pedigree  of  four  generations,  beginning  with  Thomas  Fitzhugh,  of  Beg- 
gery,  Bedfordshire,  who  must  have  lived  about  1470.  This  family  bore: 
Az.  three  chevrons  interlaced  in  base  or,  a  Chef  or,  the  same  arms  as 
William  Fitzhugh,  the  immigrant  to  Virginia. 

All  that  is  certainly  known  of  the  ancestry  of  WMlliam  Fitzhugh,  the 
immigrant,  is  that  he  was  the  son  of  Henry  Fitzhugh,  of  Bedford,  Eng- 
land. As  Colonel  William  Fitzhugh  in  his  letters  mentions  his  uncle 
'*  Mr.  Robert  Fitzhugh,  at  the  Greenhuse,  in  Bedford,"  and  his  aunt 
Mrs.  Margaret  Porter,  it  is  probable  that  Henr>'  Fitzhugh  was  the  son 
of  William  Fitzhugh,  malster,  of  Bedford,  whose  will,  dated  January  2, 
1632,  and  proved  September  25,  1638,  names  his  daughter  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  Thomas  Paradine,  Mayor  of  Bedford,  sons  Thomas,  William, 
Francis,  Hugh,  Peter,  Robert  and  Henry,  daughters  Margaret  and  Sybil, 
wife  Margaret,  sister  Wilsbere  and  brother  William  Fitzhugh,  of  Wan- 
den.  There  is  a  short  pedigree  of  the  Fitzhughs  of  Wanden,  Bucking- 
hamshire, in  the  Visitation  of  Buckingham,  1614;  but  there  is  no  mention 
of  two  brothers  named  William,  and  the  family  bore  different  arms  from 
the  Virginia  Fitzhughs.  If  William  Fitzhugh,  of  Bedford,  was  the  father 
of  Henr>'  Fitzhugh,  it  is  probable  that  William  Fitzhugh,  of  Wanden, 
was  his  brother-in-law.  It  very  frequently  happened  at  that  period  that 
the  younger  sons  of  the  minor  gentry  engaged  in  trade  in  the  towns. 

The  name  Fitzhugh  was  quite  numerously  represented  in  Bedfordshire 
and  the  town  of  Bedford.  In  the  Visitation  of  Bedford,  1566,  is  a  short 
pedigree  of  the  Fitzhughs  of  Walden,  beginning  with  **  William  Fitz- 
hugh, of  Walden,  Com.  Bedford,  3d  son."  The  family  of  the  name  at 
Wanden,  was  from  a  fifth  son  of  this  family.  There  were  also  Fitzhughs 
in  the  town  of  Bedford,  whose  connection  with  the  Virginia  family  does 
not  appear,  and  also  at  Walden,  Ravensden,  Neale,  Great  Barford, 
Tempsford  and  Kempston,  all  in  Bedfordshire.      Henry  Fitzhugh,  of 


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Bedford,  gent.,  whose  will  was  proved  in  1632,  had  evidently  lived  at 
Great  Barford. 

To  begin  with  what  is  certainly  known:  Henry  *  Fitzhugh,  of  the  town 
of  Bedford,  is  known,  from  an  inscription  on  his  portrait,  to  have  been 
born  in  161 4.  A  portrait  of  this  Henry  Fitzhugh  is  preserved;  on  the 
back  is  written  '*  Henry  Fitzhugh,  of  Bedford,  England,  age  20,  1634. 

Copied  by  John  Heselius,  1751."     He  married  Mary ,  who  survived 

him.  They  had  issue:  2.  Margaret,"  baptized  November  12,  1640,  at  St. 
Paul's,  Bedford.  She  came  to  Virginia  or  Maryland,  and  died  about 
1676.  William  Fitzhugh,  of  Virginia,  writing  on  January  30,  1686-7,  to 
his  uncle  Robert  Fitzhugh,  of  Bedford,  states  that  his  sister  Margaret 
died  about  ten  years  before,  leaving  a  daughter  who  had  visited  him  a 
few  months  previously;  3.  Susan,'  baptized  October  27,  1642,  at  Saint 
Paul's,  Bedford;  4.  Mary,*  baptized  December  26,  1643,  at  St.  Paul's;  5. 
Elizabeth,'  baptized  January  12,  1644,  at  St.  Paul's;  6.  Dorothy'  baptized 
January  24,  1645,  at  St.  Paul's.  In  April,  1686,  William  Fitzhugh,  of 
Virginia,  wrote  to  England  inviting  his  sister  Dorothy  to  come  over  and 
live  with  him,  and  directs  that  she  be  "handsomely  and  genteely  pro- 
vided," furnished  with  a  maid,  &c.,  and  if  she  had  not  the  money  that 
he  would  bear  all  costs.  She  came  either  late  in  that  year  or  early  in 
1687,  and  in  April,  1687,  he  announces  in  a  letter  to  England,  her  mar- 
riage to  Dr.  Ralph  Smith,  a  physician  and  merchant  of  Bristol,  who  had 
determined  to  settle  in  Virginia.  Dr.  Smith  only  lived  a  few  years,  and 
some  time  in  1690,  the  widow  married  George  Luke,  son  of  Oliver 
Luke,  Esq.,  of  Woodend,  Bedfordshire,  and  a  grandson  of  the  hero  of 
Hudibras.  a  young  man  who  had  come  to  Virginia  under  the  auspices 
of  his  kinsman,  Nicholas  Si>encer,  President  of  the  Council.  This  mar- 
riage was  not  a  very  happy  one,  and  she  only  survived  it  a  short  time. 
7.  Henr>','  baptized  April  28,  1650,  at  St.  Paul's.  In  January,"  1686,  Wil- 
liam Fitzhugh,  of  Virginia,  wrote  to  his  brother  "Captain  Henry  Fitz- 
hugh, at  Pell  Mell,  London."  In  the  letter  he  says:  "  I  understand  from 
my  sister  your  interest  and  friends  are  great  at  court,"  and  urges  him  to 
try  to  get  the  command  of  a  king's  ship  on  the  Virginia  station,  which 
might  be  made  worth  ;f  1,000  a  year  to  him.  It  appears  from  references 
in  the  letters  that  Henry  Fitzhugh  was  a  hard  drinker,  and  that  he  soon 
wished  to  borrow  money  from  his  brother  William.  The  latter  writing 
April  22,  1686,  to  John  Cooper,  one  of  hiN  London  merchants,  tells  him 
to  supply  his  brother  Henry's  needs,  even  if  it  takes  all  the  money  in 
his  hands.  Henry  Fitzhugh  was  married,  as  William  acknowledges  the 
receipt  of  a  present  from  his  wife.     8.  Wiiliam.'* 

8.  Colonel  William'  Fitzhigh,  the  immigrant  to  V^irginia,  was, 
according  to  the  record  which  has  been  preserved  in  Virginia,  bom  in 
the  town  of  Bedford,  England.  The  parish  register  shows  that  he  was 
baptized  at  St.  Paul's,  January  10,  1651.  About  his  earlier  life  nothing 
is  known,  but  it  is  evident  that  he  was  well  educated,  and  that  he  had 


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Studied  for  the  bar  in  a  way  which  made  him  a  well  read  and  skilled 
lawyer.  He  came  to  Virginia  about  1670,  settling  on  the  Potomac,  in 
Stafford  county  (but  now  in  King  George),  on  an  estate  which  he  called 
**  Bedford."  A  portion  of  this  property  including  the  home  sites  (for 
three  residences  have  been  successively  built  at  different  places  on 
*' Bedford,"  and  have  been  successively  destroyed  by  fire)  is  now,  in 
1899,  owned  by  Mr.  Francis  C.  Fitzhugh,  having  never  been  out  of  the 
possession  of  the  family.  William  Fitzhugh  practised  law,  and  was  also 
a  planter  and  dealer  in  tobacco.  He  was  counsel  for  Robert  Beverley, 
the  Clerk  of  the  Burgesses  in  his  celebrated  case,  and  appears  to  have 
been  often  engaged  in  important  civil  cases.  His  business  as  merchant 
and  planter  was  very  successful,  and  he  acquired  a  large  estate,  leaving 
at  his  death  54,000  acres  of  land,  and  a  valuable  personal  property.  Our 
chief  knowledge  of  him  is  derived  from  his  letters  to  English  correspon- 
dents, which  have  been  published  in  this  Magazine.  These  show  him  to 
have  been  shrewd  and  careful  in  business,  but  kind  and  generous  to 
friends  and  relatives.  He  wrote  affectionate  letters  to  his  mother,  Mrs. 
Mary  Fitzhugh,  of  Bedford,  and  frequently  sent  her  money.  A  few 
notes  from  his  letters  give  information  as  to  his  character  and  pursuits. 
June  18,  1 68 1,  he  writes  that  besides  his  own  crops,  he  had  purchased 
much  tobacco  for  shipment,  also  ships  walnut  plank;  July  i,  1680,  sends 
for  flax,  hemp  and  hay  seed;  July  25,  1683,  writes  to  Lord  Culpeper, 
offering  to  purchase  the  fee  simple  of  the  rents,  profits,  &c.,  of  all  the 
lands  in  the  parish  in  which  he  lives,  about  28,000  acres.  The  rent  to 
be  paid  by  him  to  Culpeper  would  be  about  /80  a  year;  June  11,  1684, 
thanks  Nicholas  Spencer,  President  of  the  Council  for  an  office  he  had 
conferred  upon  him;  same  date  writes  to  Nicholas  Haywood,  of  Lon- 
don, in  regard  to  the  possibility  of  cultivating  olives  in  Virginia;  May 
16,  1685,  if  the  crops  turned  out  well  he  would  have  five  or  six  hundred 
hogsheads  tobacco;  same  date,  writes  that  if  he  had  gone  to  England 
the  year  before,  as  he  had  once  intended,  he  had  determined  to  try  to 
get  a  patent  for  the  place  of  high  sheriff  of  his  county  in  fee,  or  at  least 
for  life,  and  instances  the  case  of  the  Cliffords,  who  were  hereditary 
sheriffs  of  Westmoreland,  England,  si  ill,  if  the  patent  could  be  obtained 
he  would  be  willing  to  pay  forty  or  fifty  pounds  sterling.  April  22,  1686, 
he  wrote  to  Dr.  Ralph  Smith,  of  Bristol,  proposing  to  exchange  his  es- 
tate in  Virginia,  for  one  in  England,  worth  three  or  four  hundred  pound 
a  year.  He  gives  an  account  of  his  property  (see  this  Magazine,  I,  395). 
April  26,  1689,  to  Thomas  Clayton,  merchant,  of  Liverpool,  submitting 
a  plan  for  trade  with  Holland,  in  which  he  was  willing  to  take  a  share. 
January  30,  1687,  writes  to  Hay  ward  that  establishing  and  settling  his 
plantation  had  cost  him  nearly  30,000  pounds  tobacco.  January  30,  1686- 
7,  states  that  for  eight  or  nine  years  past  he  had  served  his  county  as  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  At  the  same  time  he  again  ex- 
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A(;H   20,   TAKKN   IN    i6;>4. 

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difficult  for  him  to  educate  his  children  where  he  is,  '^and  better  never 
be  bom  than  ill-bred."  April  5,  1687,  writes  that  he  had  been  formally 
impeached  by  the  last  House  of  Burgesses,  but  that  it  came  to  nothing, 
(This  appears  to  have  been  something  about  the  levies  in  Stafford 
county.)  May  13,  1687,  wrote  to  Hayward  that  he  had  in  mind  to  write 
a  small  history  of  Virginia.  In  1680,  he  made  proposals  to  purchase 
100,000  acres  from  Lord  Culf)eper.  His  plan  was  somewhat  changed, 
and  in  1692.  he  sent  to  England  for  publication,  a  digest  of  the  laws  of 
Virginia,  with  a  brief  introductory*  historical  sketch.  If  this  work  suc- 
ceeded he  states  that  he  would  probably  attempt  a  larger  historical  ac- 
count. He  frequently  purchased  plate  in  England,  on  which  his  arms 
were  engraved.  July  10,  1690,  he  writes  Hayward  that  a  lot  of  plate 
ordered  through  him  had  arrived,  just  in  time  to  be  used  during  a  visit 
of  three  or  four  days  which  the  Governor  paid  him.  In  the  same  letter 
he  states  that  he  had  intended  to  send  his  oldest  son  to  England,  but 
accidentally  meeting  a  French  minister,  a  learned  gentleman,  in  whose 
family  only  F*rench  was  spoken,  he  had  put  his  son  with  him  for  a  time. 
He  was  getting  on  well  both  in  French  and  Latin. 

It  appears  from  his  letters  that  Colonel  Fitzhugh  was  in  politics  a  Tory 
and  in  religion  a  high  churchman. 

In  addition  to  being  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  William 
Fitzhugh  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  commanding  the  Stafford  militia.  It 
appears  from  one  of  his  letters,  July  4,  1687,  that  he  was  then  in  com- 
mand of  the  county,  and  was  preparing  to  defend  it  against  the  Senaca 
Indians. 

In  several  letters  writing  in  regard  to  seals  and  plates,  he  s|>eaks  of 
his  arms.  June  8,  1688,  he  describes  them  as  '*a  field  azure  three  chev- 
ronels  traced  in  the  base  of  escuchion  &  a  chief  or." 

A  full  abstract  of  his  will  was  published  in  this  Magazine.  II,  276. 

His  portrait  has  been  preserved.  It  has  the  inscription  "  Colonel 
William  F'itzhugh,  age  40.  1698.  Copy  by  J.  Heselius."  In  his  will  he 
bequeathes  his  own  and  his  wife's  portraits,  and  "the  other  six  pictures 
of  my  relations;  "  also  a  "study  of  books,"  and  his  pictures  and  maps. 
He  bequeathes  also,  sf>ecifically,  /'800  sterling  out  of  his  money  in  Eng- 
land, and  gives  what  may  remain  to  two  sons.  Besides  the  lands  (54,000 
acres),  fifty  one  negroes,  six  English  servants,  stocks  of  horses,  cattle, 
&c.,  two  coaches,  horses,  &c.,  goods  in  two  stores,  household  furniture, 
he  leaves  fifty-eight  pieces  of  plate  (^in  addition  to  silver  spoons). 

Colonel  William  Fitzhugh  nfiarried  May  i,  1674,  Sarah  (said  to  been 
bom  August  2,  1663),  daughter  of  John  Tucker,  of  Westmoreland  county, 
Va.  An  abstract  of  the  will  of  John  Tucker,  proved  May  31,  1671,  is 
printed  in  this  Magazine,  I,  269. 

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THE  PAYNE  FAMILY  OF  GOOCHLAND,  &c. 
(continued.) 

George '  Payne  (son  of  Josias  • )  lived  in  Goochland  county.  There 
is  on  record  in  Goochland  a  deed  dated  May,  1772,  from  Josias  Payne  to 
his  son  George  and  Agatha  his  wife.  George  Payne  married,  December 
26,  1753,  Agatha,  daughter  of  James  George,  of  Goochland  (Par.  Reg.) 
They  had  issue  (shown  by  the  register):  i.  Jesse,*  born  March  14,  1756; 
2.  Anna,*  bom  April  25,  1762;  3.  Mary  Watts,*  born  January  29,  1771; 
4.  Susannah  Woodson,*  born  April  i,  1775;  5.  William  George,*  bom 
April  24,  1777. 

It  appears  from  a  deed  in  Goochland,  that  in  1786,  Jesse  *  Payne  was 
living  in  Albemarle  county. 

John'  Payne  (son  of  Josias')  removed  first  to  Hanover  county,  Va., 
and  afterwards  to  North  Carolina.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Coles,  of  "Coles  Hill,"  Hanover  county;  and  had  issue:  i.  John,* 
of  Kentucky,  who  had  a  daughter  Anne:  2.  Mary;  3.  George;  4.  Dolly, 
born  1772,  died  1855;  married  first  John  Todd,  of  Virginia;  and  second 
James  Madison,  President  of  the  U.  S.;  5.  Lucy,  married  first,  in  1792, 
Major  George  Steptoe  Washington,  son  of  Samuel  Washington  and 
nephew  of  George  Washington,  and  second,  in  18 12,  Thomas  Todd,  of 
Lexington,  Ky.;  Chief  Justice  of  Kentucky  1806,  and  Associate  Justice 
U.  S.  Supreme  Court  1807,  and  had  by  this  marriage  a  daughter  and  two 
sons;  6.  Anne  married,  in  1804,  Richard  Cutts,  of  Maine,  M.  C  ,  and 
had  issue:  Mary,  Dolly,  Richard,  Walter  and  another  son. 

Robert*  Payne  (son  of  Josias*)  removed  to  Pittsylvania  county.  He 
married,  July  22,  1762,  Ann  Burton,  of  Goochland.  His  will  was  proved 
May  16,  I79r,  in  Pittsylvania  county. 

Issue:  I.  Charles;  2.  Robert;  3.  John;  4.  Elizabeth,  born  March  3f, 

1763,  married Sanders;  5.  Katurah,  born  Febmary  2, 1765;  6.  Ann, 

bom  November  13,  1766,  married Harrison;  7.  Agnes;  8.  Mary 

Woodson. 

7.  Agnes  Payne  (daughter  of  Robert')  married  first,  in  1795,  Rob- 
ert Harris  (marriage  bond,  Pittsylvania  county,  Febmary  2,  1795),  and 
secondly,  December  25,  1798,  Marmaduke  Williams,  of  North  Carolina. 

Among  the  members  of  the  family  who  held  public  positions,  were 
Colonel  John  Payne,  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Goochland 
1752,  1753.  1754,  1755,  1756,  1757,  1758,.  1760,  1761,  1762,  1765,  1766, 
1768,  and  probably  other  years,  Josias  Payne,  Burgess  for  Goochland 
1761  and  1765;  Josias  Payne,  Jr.,  Burgess  for  Goochland  1769;  Tarleton 
Payne,  Capt.;  Thomas  Payne,  Capt. -lieutenant,  and  Joseph  Payne  ensign 
in  the  regular  army  in  the  Revolution;  Barrett  Payne,  member  of  the 
House  of  Delegates  for  Fluvanna  1804-5;  Colonel  Barret  G.  Payne, 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Fluvanna  1827,  1830,  1832, 
1833,  1834, 1835,  1838,  1839,  '840,  1842,  1843,  and  doubtless  in  other  years; 


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John  Payne,  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Goochland  1780, 
and  George  M.  Payne,  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  from  Buck- 
ingham in  1828. 

Additions  and  corrections  are  requested. 

Later  some  account  of  the  prominent  North  Carolina  family  of  Wil- 
liams, connected  with  the  Paynes  will  be  published. 


THE  FOOTE  FAMILY. 
(continued.) 

16.  George'  Foote,  lived  first  in  St.  Paul's  parish,  Stafford  county, 
and  afterwards  in  F*auquier  county,  where  he  died.  He  married  first, 
on  December  31,  1731,  Frances  Berryman,  of  Washington  Parish,  West- 
moreland county  (5/.  Paul's  Register)  and  secondly  (according  to  Hord) 
Anne  James.  However,  his  will  gives  the  name  of  his  wife  as  Mary,  so, 
no  doubt  the  second  wife  was  Mary  James.  His  will  was  dated  May  31, 
and  proved  in  Fauquier,  June  28,  1759,  and  his  legatees  were,  his  wife 
Mary,  sons  William,  Richard,  Henry,  George  and  Gilson  [this  name  is 
frequently  spelt  Gibson],  and  daughters;  Elizabeth,  Frances  and  Bebeath- 
land.  He  directs  that  his  youngest  sons  Richard  and  William,  shall  be 
educated.     The  other  sons  were  probably  grown. 

Issue  (by  first  marriage,  according  to  Hord):  24.  George,*  bom  Jan- 
uary 20,  1734  (St.  Paul's  Register).  There  is  in  Fauquier,  a  deed  dated 
September  28,  1764,  from  George  Foote,  of  F*auquier,  and  his  wife 
Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Kincheloe,  deceased,  of  Prince  William.  He 
removed  to  South  Carolina  {  Hord  \  25.  Gilson,*  bom  December  3, 
1736  (St.  Paul's  Register).  On  May  3,  1759,  Gilson  Foote,  Gent.,  of 
Fauquier,  made  a  deed  for  land  which  had  been  devised  him  by  his 
father,  George  Foote.  He  died  without  issue  {Hord)\  26.  Henry.* 
Henry  Foote  and  Margaret  his  wife,  made  a  deed  in  Fauquier,  October, 
1762,  for  land  devised  him  by  his  father,  George  Foote;  27.  Beheathland,* 
married,  in  1766,  (marriage  bond  Fauquier,  December  11,  1766)  Benjamin 
Pope,  Mr.  Hord  says,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  that  she  left  many  child- 
ren; 28.  Elizabeth  (named  in  will);  29.  Frances  (named  in  will).  There 
is  in  F'auquier  a  marriage  bond,  dated  August  26,  1763,  to  William  Foote, 
and  Elizabeth  Foote.  Mr.  Hord  gives  the  other  two  daughters  as  (2) 
Mrs.  Butler,  wife  of  James  Butler,  of  South  Carolina,  and  nephew  of 
"Major  Butler,  member  of  Congress,"  and  (3)  Mrs.  Savage,  of  South 
Carolina,  who  left  a  son  living  near  Florence,  Ala. 

The  issue  of  the  second  marriage  of  George  *  Foote  was:  30.  Richard, 
"  who  was  a  Lieutenant  of  Marines  in  the  Revolution,  and  was  killed  in 
battle  off  the  Capes  of  the  Chesapeake  "  (  Hord).  There  is  recorded 
in  Fauquier  the  will  of  a  Richard  F'oote,  of  Stafford  county,  who  was 
probably  this  person.  It  was  dated  Febmary,  1779,  and  proved  April, 
1780,  and  leaves  all  his  property  to  his  brother  William;  31.  William.* 


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According  to  Mr.  Hord,  Richard'  Foote,  son  of  the  immigrant,  had  a 
son  Richard.'     He  must  also  have  had  a  son  George.* 

Richard'  Foote  {Richard,'^  Richard^)  lived  in  Prince  William  county. 
His  will  was  dated  August  28,  1778,  and  proved  May  3,  1779.  His  lega- 
tees were  his  wife  Margaret,  his  sons,  Richard  and  William  Hayward 
Foote,  and  daughters  Catherine  and  Elizabeth.  Executors  Lynaugh 
Helm  and  Lawrence  Washington.  His  wife  was  probably  a  Washington, 
as  Lawrence  Washington,  of  King  George,  in  his  will  names  his  nephew 
Hayward  Foote. 

Issue:  32.  William  Hayward,  of  Mississippi  (//<3r^);  33.  Richard . 

Mr.  Hord  says  William  of  Mississippi,  but  the  will  shows  this  son  was 
named  Richard;  34.  Elizabeth  married  Dr.  Chiro.  of  Mississippi  {Hord)\ 
35.  Catherine.  ( Hord  includes  among  the  daughters,  Sally  who  mar- 
ried Dr.  James  Thornton,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ) 

George'  F*oote,  believed  to  have  been  the  son  of  Richard*  Foote, 
and  grandson  of  the  immigrant,  lived  in  Fauquier  county.  His  will  was 
dated  July  15,  and  proved  November  27,  1755;  legatees:  wife  Celia,  son 
Richard  Helm  Foote,  and  daughter  Hester  Foote.  Hord  states  that 
this  George  Foote  married  a  daughter  of  S.  Helm,  and  that  she  married 
secondly,  General  William  Blackwell,  of  Fauquier.  She  married  Cap- 
tain William  Blackwell,  of  the  Virgmia  Continental  Line. 

Issue:  36.  Richard  Helm;*  37.  Hester.* 

George*  Foote  removed  to  South  Carolina,  and  had  issue:  38.  Wil- 
liam,* of  Noxubee  county.  Miss.;  39.  John.* 

William*  Foote,  died  in  Fauquier  county.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Colonel  William  Alexander,  of  "  Effingham  House,"  Prince 
William  county,  and  had  issue:  40.  George;*  41.  John,*  died  in  New 
Orleans,  without  issue;  42.  Ann  married  Judge  Taylor,  of  Vicksburg, 
Mississippi;  43.  William,*  of  Mississippi;  44.  Gibson,*  of  Mississippi; 
45.  Philip;*  46.  Mary,*married  JohnMassie  orMassey;  47.  Sigismunda,* 
married  first,  John  Ashton,  second,  Dr.  Charles  Stuart,  of  Prince  William 
county,  V'a.;  48.  Richard;*  49.  Alexander;*  50.  Frederick,  of  Prince 
William  county;  51.  Edwin,  of  Breckenridge  county,  Ky. 

36.  Richard  Helm*  Foote,  of  Fauquier  county,  married  Jane, 
daughter  of  Rev.  William  Stuart,  of  "Cedar  Grove,'*  King  George 
county,  Va.,  and  died  1818. 

Issue:  52.  George  William;*  53.  Celia  Jane  Stuart,*  married  Robert 
Hord  (the  writer  of  the  account  of  the  Foote  family  quoted  here);  54. 
Richard  Helm,*  died  in  1823,  without  issue;  55.  Henry- Stuart;*  56.  Cath- 
erine,* married  Frances  Hereford,  and  emigrated  to  Illinois,  settling  at 
Hillsboro. 

40.  George*  Foote  died  about  1820.  He  had  issue:  57.  William,* 
of  Mississippi;  58.  George,'  of  Mississippi;  59.  Mary,"  of  Mississippi; 
60.  Lavinia,  of  Mississippi. 


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46.  Philip*  FooTE  had  issue:  6l  Ann,*  of  Alabama;  62.  Mary,*  of 
Alabama;  63.  Philip,' of  Alabama;  64.  Charles,'  of  Alabama. 

49.  Alexander  *  Foote  had  a  son  Stephen  Foote,  of  Fauquier  county, 
Virginia. 

52.  George  William^  Foote  married  Esther,  daughter  of  William 
Edmonds  (see  Hay  den's  Virginia  Genealogies)  and  had:  65.  Esther,*  of 
F*auquier  county;  66.  Edmonia,*  of  Fauquier  county. 

55.  Henry  Stl'art*  Foote,  born  in  Fauquier  county,  September  20, 
1800,  and  died  May  20,  1880.  He  was  educated  at  Washington  College. 
Va  ,  graduating  in  1819.  In  1824  he  removed  Tuscumbia,  Ala.,  and  in 
1826  to  Jackson,  Mississippi.  His  public  life  is  well  known.  He  was 
U.  S.  Senator  1847-51;  was  elected  Governor  of  Mississippi  in  1852, 
defeating  Jefferson  Davis,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Confederate  Con- 
gress. He  was  the  author  of  several  works:  *' Texas  and  the  Texans,*' 
"Sylla  and  Charybdis,"  and  **The  Bench  and  Bar  of  the  Southwest." 
He  married  Miss  Winter,  and  had  issue:  67.  Mrs.  L.  Aldrich;  68.  Mrs 
Jane  Martin;  69.  Cecilia,  wife  of  Honorable  William  Stewart,  U.  S.  Sen- 
ator from  Nevada;  70.  Mrs.  Woodbey,  of  Washington,  D.  C;  71.  Judge 
Henry  Foote;  72.  W^illiam  Winter  Foote,  of  San  PVancisco,  Cal. 

Corrections  and  additions  are  requested. 


RODES   FAMILY. 

(CONTINLED.) 

Addenda.  John '  Rodes  married  Mary  (bom  March,  1703),  daughter 
of  Captain  David  Crawford  (1662  ?— 1762),  of  Amherst  county,  Va. 

David  *  Rodes  removed  from  Hanover  county  to  Albemarle.  He 
says,  in  a  manuscript  still  preserved:  *'In  1756,  Nov.  19,  did  I,  David 
Rodes,  come  to  the  Mountains  to  live  on  Moormans  River,  and  in  May 
J 3.  1758.  1  was  married  to  my  loving  wife,  Mary  Mills.  My  wife,  Mar>- 
Rodes.  died  April  10,  1781.  1783,  March  17th,  I  married  my  second 
wife,  Susannah  Anderson."  His  first  child  was  Anna,  bom  March,  1759, 
died  1773  (not  included  in  the  list  on  page  84).  Betty  Rodes  Goodman 
died  in  1832.    John'  Rodes  (1764-1823),  never  married. 

27.  Matthew'  Rodes,  born  December  9,  1765,  died  April  18.  1834. 
He  married  May  27,  1794,  Ann  Blackwell  (bom  September  18,  1774,  died 
April  29,  1853).  Issue:  56.  David :^  57.  Mar>' Richardson,*  born  April 
'9.  1797.  died  October,  1876;  58.  Robert,*  born  October  i,  1799,  died 
November  30,  1874;  59.  Lucinda,*  bom  September  23,  1801,  died  May 
10,  1869;  60.  Hetty,*  bom  May  9,  i8j3,  died  January  15,  1887;  61.  Gilly 
Stephens,*  born  December  2.  1804.  died  May  22,  1846;  62.  Ann  Black- 
well,*  born  September  18,  1807,  died  November  12,  1838;  63.  Ehzabeth 
Frances,*  bom  August  9,  1809,  died  June  25,  1876;  64.  Mildred  E.,*  born 
April  9,  i8n,  died  May  3,  1861;  65.  Judith,*  bom  July  22,  1819,  died  July 


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25,  181 9  (we  have  no  information  in  regard  to  the  marriages  or  descen- 
dants of  any  of  these  except  David). 

38  Colonel  William*  Rodes,  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  born 
February  24,  1794;  married  November  3,  1819,  Pauline  S.  Clay,  second 
daughter  of  General  Green  Clay,  died  October,  1875.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Kentucky  Legislature  from  Madison  county  in  1819.  We 
have  no  information  in  regard  to  his  children. 

40.  Clifton*  Rodes,  of  Danville,  Ky.,  born  August  26,  1798,  mar- 
ried December  3,  1823,  Amanda  (bom  June  24,  1805),  daughter  of  Gov- 
ernor Owsley,  of  Kentucky.  He  was  member  Kentucky  Legislature, 
I 8297 I 830. 

Issue:  66.  Judge  Robert,*  of  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  born  September  28, 
1824;  67.  Elizabeth  Owsley,*  bom  April  22,  1826;  68.  Amelia  Anderson,* 
bom  December  24,  1828;  69.  Ann  Eliza,*  born  March  3,  1830;  70.  Wm. 
Owsley,*  born  May  14,  1832,  died  April  26.  1833;  71.  Clifton,*  bom  Au- 
gust 9,  1834;  72.  Boyle  Owsley,*  bom  April  6,  1837;  73.  Almyra,*  bom 
Febmary  29,  1837;  74.  Sally  Rollins,  born  April  30,  1842;  75.  John,  born 
October  11,  1845;  76.  Charles  Henry,  of  Danville,  Ky.,  bom  March  15, 
1848. 

42.  Ryland*  Rodes,  married  Sarah  Woods,  of  Nelson  county,  Vir- 
ginia. 

Issue:  77.  Sarah,*  married  first,  Morris  Brown,  second,  Thurman,  of 
Nelson  county;  78.   Mary,*  married  H.   Martin,  of  Nelson  county;  79. 

James,*  married  Jarman,  of  Nelson  county;  80.  Jacintha,*  married 

John  Coleman,  Nelson  county;   81.  William  Ryland,*  died  young  and 
unmarried. 

44.  William*  Rodes,  born  May  19,  i8or,  died  April  25,  1882,  mar- 
ried Miss  E.  C.  Yancey,  Rockingham  county,  Virginia. 

Issue:  82.  Mary  F.,*  bom  January  24,  1823,  married  Dr.  P.  R.  Harri- 
son, of  Harrisonburg,  Va.;  83.  Thomas  L.,*  born  September  8,  1829, 
married  first.  Miss  M.  F.  Christian,  Richmond,  Virginia,  second.  Miss 
J.  M.  Smith,  Nelson  county;  84.  Elizabeth  Dabney,*  married  N.  T.  Chap- 
man, Albemarle  county;  85.  Sarah  Adaline,*  married  J.  J.  Pace,  Albe- 
marle county;  86.  Francina  D.,*  married  Dr.  J.  B.  Strayer,  Shenandoah 
county;  87.  J.  William,  born  January  13,  1837,  married  Miss  A.  C.  Jar- 
man  Albemarle  county;  88.  Mary  L.,  married  P.  J.  Crew,  Richmond, 
Va.,  and  died  August  20,  1872. 

46.  Tvree*  Rodes,  married  Eliza  Tipton,  of  Tennessee,  and  removed 
first  to  Tennessee  and  afterwards  to  Missouri. 

Issue:  89.  John,*  married    ;  90.  William,*  married  ;  91. 

Darthula.*  married  Dr.  Hickerson,  of  Missouri;  92.  Tipton;*  93.  Mar>';* 
94.  Edward;*  95.  Joseph;*  96.  Elizabeth.* 

53.  Robert*  Rodes.  of  Tennessee,  bom  June  24,  1816;  married  Oc- 
tober 20,  1840.  Sarah  Elizabeth  Carter. 


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Issue:  97.  Inez,*  born  February  4,  1842,  married  June  11,  1868,  Rev. 
George  H.  Hunt;  98.  Cynthia,*  born  May  15,  1844,  married  November 
28,  1863,  F.  R.  R.  Smith;  99.  Tyree,*  born  August  17,  1847,  married  No- 
vember 9,  1886,  Mary  Gordon  (and  has  one  child,  Sarah  Louise*);  100. 
Mary,*  bom  October  20,  1849,  died  Januai7  16,  187 1 ;  loi.  Frank,*  bom 
January  17,  1852;  102.  Robert,*  bom  May  2,  1854,  married  June  17, 1882, 
Lulie  Horton  (and  had  Alice  and  Elizabeth);  103.  Benjamin  Carter,*  bom 
October  17,  1858;  died  July  22,  1863;  104.  Sallie  Lindsay,  bom  June  17, 
1861,  died  July  13,  1867;  105.  James  Holland,*  born  November  14,  1863. 

56.  General  David*  Rodes,  born  Febmar>'  27,  1795,  died  Febmary 
15,  1862;  served  long  in  the  Virginia  State  Militia,  rising  from  ensign  to 
brigadier-general.  He  married  first,  November  23,  1822,  Martha  (born 
1803),  daughter  of  Major  Jfoel  Yancey,  of  Bedford  county;  second,  May 
12,  1846,  Frances  Louisa,  daughter  of  Robert  C.  Penn,  of  Bedford 
county. 

Issue  (first  marriage):  106.  Virginius  Hudson,*  born  Januar>'  5,  1824, 
died  unmarried  in  Mississippi,  January  13,  1879.  He  served  during  the 
Civil  War  on  the  staff  of  General  R.  E.  Rodes;  107.  Ann  Maria,*  bom 
April  4,  1827,  married  November  2,  1843,  Maurice  Langhorne,  and  died 
May  18,  1847;  'oS-  Robert  Emmett ;^  109.  Sallie  Harrison,*  married 
William  J.  Nelson,  of  Staunton,  Virginia,  and  died  March  21,  1886,  hav- 
ing twelve  children;  (second  marriage):  no.  Lucy  Steptoe,*  bom  April 
If,  1847,  died  October  13,  1894;  in.  Lafayette  Penn,*  of  Lynchburg, 
Virginia,  bom  April  2,  1848,  married  July  11,  1883,  Lucy  Carter  Ambler 
(died  November  8,  189 1),  daughter  of  John  Jacquelin  Ambler,  and  has 
three  children;  112.  David,*  born  May  25,  1852,  died  June  25,  1855;  113. 
Dabney,*  bom  January  26,  1856,  died  in  infancy. 

108.  Major-General  Robert  Emmett*  Rodes,  C.  S.  A.,  one  of  the 
most  able  and  gallant  officers  in  the  Confederate  Army,  was  born  March 
30,  1829.  He  was  educated  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  graduat- 
ing in  1848,  and  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out  was  chief  engineer  of  a 
railroad  in  Alabama.  He  immediately  formed  a  volunteer  company 
from  Tuscaloosa  and  vicinity  and  entered  the  Confederate  army  as  cap- 
tain. He  was  very  shortly  made  colonel  of  the  Fifth  Alabama  regiment, 
then  brigadier-general,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  maior-general 
for  gallantr>'at  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville.  He  was  killed  at  the  sec- 
ond battle  of  Winchester,  September  19,  1864,  and  was  buried  in  Lynch- 
burg, Va.,  his  boyhood  home. 

He  married  September  10,  1857,  at  Tuscaloosa,  Alabama,  Virginia 
Hortense  Woodmflf,  and  had  two  children:  114.  Robert,"  now  of  Tusca- 
loosa, married  and  has  children;  115.  Belle  Yancey,*  married  f.  W . 
Trainor,  of  Savanna,  Ga. 

Additions  and  corrections  received  since  the  above  was  in  print  will  be 
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THE  PRYOR  FAMILY. 

(CONTINUED.) 

The  following  notices  of  the  Pryors  occur  in  the  Goochland  county 
records:  (i.)  Bond  of  William  Pryor,  as  sheriflf  of  Goochland,  August 
2ist,  1753,  (2.)  Will  of  John  Pr>'or;  legatees:  daughters  Ann  Wright 
and  Rebecca  Woodson,  and  grandson  John  Woodson.  Dated  June  24, 
and  proved  August  19,  1755.  (3.)  Bond  of  William  Pryor,  February  9, 
1758,  to  Valentine  Wood,  administrator  of  Henry  Wood,  reciting  that 
said  Pryor  had  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry  Wood.  14.)  Deed 
from  Mrs.  Francis  Pr>'or,  December,  1770,  to  her  son  George  Meriwether, 
son  of  her  former  husband  Nicholas  Meriwether.  ^5.)  Inventories  of  the 
personal  estate  of  Samuel  Pryor,  deceased,  in  Goochland  and  Dinwiddie 
counties;  dated  1766.  (6.)  Marriage  bond  October  27,  1757,  William 
Pryor  and  Sarah  Wood.  (7.)  Marriage  bond,  August  27,  1760,  Samuel 
Pryor,  of  Amelia  county,  and  Frances,  widow  of  Nicholas  Meriwether. 

(8.)  Marriage  bond,  April  30,  1773,  Matthew  Payne  and  Sally,  daughter 
of  William  Pryor,  gent.  (9.)  Will  of  William  Pryor;  legatees:  son 
Samuel,  wife  Sarah,  sons  William  and  John,  daughter  Sally  Payne, 
daughters  Patty  and  Mary  Pryor.  Friend  Colonel  William  Fleming,  of 
Cumberland,  executor.     Dated  May  16,  and  proved  July  21,  1777. 

The  records  of  Louisa  county,  contain  the  following:  (i.)  Will  of 
George  Meriwether,  dated  July  6,  1775,  legacies  to  his  mother  Frances 
Pryor  and  "her  son  Samuel  Pryor,  my  brother-in-law  "  [half-brother]. 
(2.)  Deed,  March,  1768,  from  Francis  Pryor,  of  Orange  county,  and 
Frances  his  wife,  conveying  land  in  Louisa. 

And  of  Hanover  county:  (i.)  Deed,  October  ist,  1735,  from  William 
Harris,  of  Hanover,  to  John  Pryor,  of  King  and  Queen  county. 

William  Pryor,  of  Goochland,  from  comparison  of  all  .data,  must 
have  been  the  son  of  Colonel  Samuel  Pr>'or,  with  whom  the  account  of 
the  family  given  in  the  last  number  begins.  Samuel  Pryor,  of  Amelia 
and  Goochland,  must  also  have  been  another  son.  Francis  Pryor,  of 
Orange,  named  in  the  Louisa  deed,  another  son.  John  Pryor,  of  King 
and  Queen,  named  in  the  Hanover  deed,  was  probably  a  brother  of 
Colonel  Samuel  Pryor. 

In  Trimble  county,  Ky.,  are  tombs  bearing  the  following  inscriptions: 

"  In  memory  of  Samuel  Pryor,  who  departed  this  life,  December, 
1811."  "In  memory  of  Mary  (Curd),  wife  of  Samuel  Pryor,  who  de- 
parted this  life  June  30,  1833,  in  the  6oth  year  of  her  age." 

Samuel  Pryor  and  his  wife  Mary,  went  from  Goochland  county  to 
Kentucky,  about  1800.  She  was  born  in  1773,  and  he  probably  some 
years  before  that  date.  It  is  a  question  as  to  whose  son  he  was.  Samuel 
Pryor,  who  died  in  1766,  apparently  left  no  will,  so  that  the  names  of  his 
children  (if  any)  can  not  be  ascertained  from  that  source.  William  Pryor, 
of  Goochland,  whose  will  was  dated  1777,   left  a  son  Samuel.      It  is 


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known  however,  that  Frances,  who  married  first,  Nicholas  Meriwether, 
and  secondly,  Samuel  Pryor,  was  a  sister  of  Joseph  Morton,  of  James 
City  county  (long  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses)^  and  as  the 
name  Morton  frequently  appeared  among  the  descendants  of  this  Sam- 
uel Pryor,  who  removed  to  Kentucky,  it  is  probable  that  he  was  a  son 
of  Samuel  and  Frances.    The  Goochland  records  would  probably  show. 

Samuel  and  Mary  (Curd^  Pryor  had  issue:  i.  Captain  Jack;  2.  Mary; 
3.  Lucy;  4.  Catherine;  5.  George  Morton;  6.  James;  7.  Samuel;  8. 
Nancy;  9.  Martha;  10.  Frances;  io'/2.  Harry. 

I.  Captain  Jack  Pryor,  born  1790,  died  1858,  was  long  sheriff  of 
Oldham  county,  Ky.;  married  Sally  Duncan  and  had  issue:  11.  Joseph; 
12.  Samuel;  13.  Catherine,  unmarried;  14.  Lucy  died  unmarried;  15. 
George,  died  unmarried. 

2..  Mary  Pryor,  married  Charles  Dorsey.  They  went  to  California 
during  the  *'  Gold  Fever."     No  information  in  regard  to  the  children. 

3.  Lucy  Pryor,  married  James  Duncan,  and  had  issue:  16.  Sarah; 
17.  Mary. 

4.  Catherine  Pryor,  married  first,  James  Duncan  (her  brother-in- 
law)  and  second,  Moses  Tandy.  Issue:  18.  Lena  Duncan;  19.. Milton 
Tandy;  20.  Granville  Tandy. 

5.  George  Morton  Pryor,  married  Elizabeth  Lewis,  and  had  issue: 
21.  Mary  Frances,  died  unmarried;  22  Sallie,  married  — •—  Lincoln, 
nephew  of  the  President;  23.  Joseph,  who  had  an  only  son  James,  who 
left  two  children;  24.  Jack,  died  unmarried;  25.  Frank,  had  five  children. 

6.  James  Pryor,  married  first,  Eliza  Samuel;  second,  Caroline  Butler 
(no  issue  by  second  marriage).  Issue:  26.  Nancy,  married  Jacob  Cham- 
bers; 27.  Mary,  married  John  Sherer;  28.  Eliza,  married  Harry  Tarvin; 
29.  Samuel,  died  young;  30.  Honorable  James  Pryor,  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Court  of  Appeals  of  Kentucky. 

7.  Samuel  Pryor,  married  Nancy  Samuels.  Issue:  31.  Honorable 
William  S.  Pryor,  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky;  32.  Ann  Eliza,  married  James 
Roberts. 

8.  Nancy  Pryor,  married  Tavemer  Beale  Young.  Issue:  33.  Jack; 
34.  Margaret,  died  unmarried;  34.  Lucy;  35.  Martha;  36.  Morton;  37. 
Samuel;  38.  Mary  died  unmarried;  39.  Francis. 

9.  Martha  Pryor,  married  Willis  Duncan.  Issue:  40.  Mary  Ann, 
married  Samuel  Jackson;  41.  Eliza,  married  William  Grey;  42.  Francis 

married  Alexander  Grant;  43.  Martha  Henry,  married Ringe;  44. 

Benjamin,  married Lemon;  45.  Albert,  died  unmarried;  46.  Sam- 
uel died  unmarried. 

10.  Frances  Pryor,  married  Jeremiah  Strother.  Issue:  47.  Mary 
Frances,  died  unmarried;  48.  Joseph,  died  unmarried;  49.  Samuel,  mar- 
ried Nancy  Jackson  and  had,  Jack,  Mary  and  Kate. 

104.  Harry  Pryor.  married  first,  Amelia  Tandy;  second,  Barbara 
Robbins.  Issue:  50.  Tandy,  married  Barbara  Giltner  and  had,  Henry, 
Moses,  Catherine,  Noble,  Michael,  Amelia,  Mary  and  Parker;  51.  Kath- 


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erine  died  unmarried;  52.  Sarah,  died  unmarried;  53.  Anna,  died  un- 
married; 54.  Mar>%  married  Patrick  Baker,  and  had,  Rose  and  Pr>'or; 

55.  Rose,  married Howard;  56.  Caroline,  married ;  57.  James, 

married  Mrs.  Hall;  58.  Alice,  married  John  McDaniell  and  had  Pryor. 
(to  be  continued.) 


THE  BOOKER  FAMILY. 

(CONTINUED.) 

9    Edmund*  Boqker  i Edmund,*  Richard\  of  Amelia  county,  was 

bom ,  and  died  in  1792.     He  was  justice  of  the  peace  for  Amelia. 

He  married  Edith  Marot,  daughter  of  Samuel  Cobbs.  of  Amelia  county. 
There  is  a  deed  in  Amelia,  May,  1759,  from  Edmund  Booker  and  Edith 
Marot  Booker,  his  wife;  and  Edith,  widow  of  Samuel  Cobbs,  in  her  will 
dated  March  9,  1758,  gives  a  legacy  to  her  granddaughter  Rachel,  daugh- 
ter of  Edmund  Booker,  Jr. ;  and  appoints  her  son-in-law  Edmund  Booker, 
Jr.,  one  of  her  executors. 

The  will  of  Edmund  Booker,  dated  September  26,  1792,  and  proved 
in  Amelia  September  24,  1793,  confirms  to  his  son  Edmund,  negroes 
given  him  many  years  before;  to  son  Samuel,  the  same;  to  son  Davis, 
seven  negroes  given  him  years  before;  the  land  where  he  Fives,  after 
taking  off  the  part  he  has  given  to  his  son,  to  go  to  grandson  Edmund 
Morton;  rest  of  estate  equally  between  children:  Edmund,  Samuel, 
Davis  and  Jane  Booker,  Rachel  Morton  and  Frances  Hill. 

Issue:  26.  Edmund;^  27.  Davis;*  28.  Samuel;*  29.  Parham;*  30.  Jane;* 

3r.  Rachel.*  married  Morton;  32.  Frances,*  married  James  Hill 

(marriage  bond  in  Amelia,  January  28,  1781). 

14.  Richard*  Booker  {Edward,"^  Richard^),  of  Amelia,  was  bom 

,  and  died  in  1 760.     He  was  colonel  of  the  militia  of  Amelia  county. 

He  married  Rachel  Marot,  of  Williamsburg.  Mrs.  Ann  Sullivan  (for- 
merly Mrs.  Marot),  in  her  will  dated  Amelia  county,  March  10,  1738, 
names  her  daughter  Rachel  Booker,  and  grandchildren  Edward  and 
Ann  Booker.  The  will  of  Richard  Booker  was  dated  March  26,  and 
proved  in  Amelia,  September  25,  1760.  He  left  his  son  Edward  all  his 
tract  of  land  purchased  of  Joseph  Mays,  known  as  the  Ferry,  where  he 
now  lived,  and  numerous  slaves;  to  daughter  Ann,  numerous  slaves  and 
/.'500,  to  be  paid  when  coming  of  age  or  marrying;  to  son  Richard,  all 
his  land  on  the  north  side  of  Roanoke  and  Falling  river,  in  Lunenburg 
and  Bedford  counties,  and  slaves,  and  personalty;  to  his  son  Parham, 
the  land  where  Thompson  Harris  then  lived,  called  the  Seven  Islands,  run- 
ning up  river  to  Benns  Quarter;  to  son  John,  the  plantation  called  Benns 
Quarter,  adjoining  the  land  given  son  Parham,  and  also  the  remainder 
of  the  tract  called  Seven  Islands.  Francis  Anderson  to  have  the  care 
of  son  John  until  he  arrives  at  the  age  of  twenty-one;  to  son  William 
Marshall  Booker,  all  of  his  land  in  Prince  Edward  county,  called  Say- 
lors  Creek;  also  the  tract  of  land  testator  lived  on  after  wife's  death; 
also  personalty  and  slaves;  to  wife  Rachel,  numerous  slaves,  &c.;  her 


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negroes  after  her  death  to  be  divided  between  his  sons  Edward,  Rich- 
ard, Parham,  Richard  and  John. 

The  inventory  of  the  personal  estate  of  *'Col.  Richard  Booker/*  was 
recorded  in  Amelia  in  April,  1761. 

Issue:  33.  Edward;*  34.  Richard;*  35.  Parham;*  36.  John;*  37.  Wil- 
liam Marshall.* 

17.  Edward*  Booker  {Edzcard,^  Richard^),  of  '*  Winterham,"  Ame- 
lia county,  was  bom ,  and  died  in  1760.  He  married  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Cobbs,  of  Amelia.  Their  marriage  contract,  dated  Feb. 
21.  1739.  is  of  record  in  that  county.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Amelia 
Militia.  The  inventory  of  the  personal  estate  of  "Captain  Edward 
Booker,"  is  recorded  under  date  of  June,  1760,  and  amounts  to  /"  1,801, 
7.  3.  His  will  was  dated  December  21,  1759,  ^^^  proved  in  Amelia, 
March  27,  1760.  He  left  to  his  son  Edward,  the  land  where  he  (the  tes- 
tator) then  lived,  and  one  negro  boy;  to  his  daughter  Kitty  Booker,  one 
negro  girl,  to  his  daughter  Statira  Booker,  one  negro  girl;  to  his  wife 
Ann,  ten  slaves  to  be  chosen  by  her;  his  land  on  Deep  Creek  to  be  sold 
and  the  proceeds,  after  his  debts  were  paid,  to  be  divided  between  his 
four  children,  Edward,  Mary,  Kitty,  and  Statira.  All  the  rest  of  his  es- 
tate, after  his  wife  has  taken  her  choice,  to  be  divided  between  his  chil- 
dren, Edward,  Mary  Marshall  Parham,  Kitty  and  Statira.  And  what  he 
lends  to  his  wife  for  her  life  to  be  divided  in  the  same  manner  at  her 
decease. 

Issue:  38.  Edward;*  39.  Kitty;*  40.  Statira,*  41.  Mar>-  Marshall  Par- 
ham,* married  James  Henderson  (marriage  bond.  Amelia,  April  18, 
1767)- 

20.  William*    Booker  {Richard,'*  A*/VA<ir^M,  of  Amelia  county, 
was  bom  June  11,  1714,  and  died  Febmar>'  10,   1755  {Family  Bible), 

married  Mary  .     His  will  was  dated  September  29,    1754,  and 

proved  in  Amelia.  He  gave  his  son  Richard  435  acres  in  Amelia  where 
the  testator  then  lived,  which  was  a  part  of  a  tract  of  land  granted  to 
his  father  Richard  Booker;  also  400  acres  in  Lunenburg  on  the  south 
side  of  Meherrin  River  and  on  the  branches  of  Buckhom;  to  son  John 
land  on  the  upper  side  of  '*  Bears  Ellament,"  in  Lunenburg  county  and 
on  both  sides  of  Mason's  Creek,  "which  may  be  about  600  acres;" 
also  400  acres  on  the  lower  side  of  '*  Bears  Ellament;  "  remaining  lands 
to  be  equally  divided  between  sons  William  and  Lowr>',  William  to 
have  the  part  adjoining  Crooked  Creek,  and  the  plantation  on  Little 
Beaver  Pond,  and  Lowry,  the  upper  part  adjoining  "Bears  Ellament" 
and  Meherrin  river.  Legacies  to  daughters  Martha  and  Mar>'.  Rest  of 
estate  equally  between  five  children.  Martha,  Mar>',  William,  Lowr>- 
and  John.  Appoints  "  My  worthy  friend  Thomas  Tabb,  Gent.,"  guar- 
dian to  the  five  children. 

Issue:  42.  Richard;*  43.  John;*  44.  William;*  45.  Lowr>;  *  46.  Mar- 
tha;* 47.  Mary.* 

(to  be  contimkd.) 


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An  Attorney's  Bill,  1728. 

Col.  John  Allen's  Mr.  Eldridge's 

Acc't  to  T.  E.  Acc't,  May  ye  i6th,  1728. 

Col.  John  Allen, 
1724. 
To  an  attorney's  fee  in  his  suit  vs.  Thomas  Middleton, 
To  Ditto  in  Joseph  Strickland's  suit  vs.  John  Taylor, 
To  Do.  in  John  Ruffin's  suit  vs.  William  Jordan, 

1725. 
To  Do.  in  Lewis  Delone's  Suit  vs.  James  Ransom, 
To  Writing  Indentures  inter  Lewis  Delone  &  you, 
To  writing  a  Letter  of  Attorney  for  ye  Children  of  Thomas 
Waller, 

1727. 
To  a  fee  in  his  Suit  vers.  Tabitha  Crawley, 


To  Balance  due  as  p.  Contra, 
To  Cash, 


Dr. 

L.   S. 

D. 

0.   15. 

0 

0.   15. 

0 

0.   15. 

0 

0.    15. 

0 

0.   10. 

0 

0. 

15. 

0 

£a. 

15. 

0 

2. 
0. 

I. 
5. 

0 

6 

/.  Contra  Cr. 


2.    6.    6 


1726.     p.  432  H)  Tobo.  on  Mary  Mitchells  Acc't  at  12  s.  6  p. 

Cent,  2.  14.    o 

Ballance  due,  2     i.    o 


Sep'r  8th,  1727.     Errors  Excepted, 
p.  Tho  Eldridge, 

p.  Contra, Cr. 

p.  a  fee  in  Jno.  Ruffin's  Suit  charged 
as  p.  Contra,  disallow'd,  o.  15.    «» 

1726.     p.  Clerk's  fees,  86  Tobo.,  o.  10.    9 

p.  Ditto  due  from  Mr.  James  Brudly,  87,  o.  10.  io>^ 

p.  John  Woodard,  o.    9.  i<»>^ 


2.    6.    6 


Epitaphs  at  "Church   Pastures,"  Brandon,  Va.— On  a  farm, 
called  "Church  Pastures,"  now  forming  a  part  of  the  Brandon  estate, 


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Prince  George  county,  Virginia,  is  a  small  grove,  covering  the  site  of 
an  old  church  and  churchyard.  Here  was  probably  the  oldest  church 
of  Martin's  Brandon  parish.  Though  Bishop  Meade  doubtless  visited 
Brandon,  he  makes  no  mention  of  this  old  church,  yet  it  would 
seem  that  the  name  '*  Church  Pastures,"  would  have  excited  his  inter- 
est. The  tombs  now  remaining  were  evidently  unknown  to  him.  His 
account  of  the  parish  is  of  little  value.  The  date  of  its  formation  is 
unknown;  but  it  was  doubtless  at  a  very  early  date.  John  Sadler,  of 
London,  one  of  the  owners  of  Brandon,  in  his  will  dated  December  ii, 
1658,  left  **/2o  worth  of  goods  to  be  delivered  to  Master  Charles  Spar- 
rowe.  and  the  chiefest  of  the  parishioners  of  the  parish  of  Martin's 
Brandon,  to  repairing  the  church  and  parsonage." 

The  epitaphs  remaining  are  as  follows: 

(i)  "  Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Mrs.  Dorothy  Tooker,late  relict  of  John 
Tirrey,  Gent.     She  departed  this  life  the  12th  of  December,  1708." 

(2)  **  Here  lies  Interred  the  Body  of  John  Tirrey,  Gent.,  who  was 
borne  at  London,  the  4th  of  February,  1649,  and  departed  this  life  20th 
of  August,  1700."  This  tomb  bears  arms,  empaled,  the  dexter  side  is 
sabie  J  chevrons  between  j  mullets  ar.,  corresponding  to  Tirrey,  of  Lon- 
don, confirmed  June  13,  161 6.  The  sinister  side  is  more  worn,  but  evi- 
dently contains  a  bend,  on  which  are  three  objects,  which  can  not  well 
be  identified.  These  objects  are  evidently  nearly  triangular  in  shape. 
The  crest  is  A  demi  roebuck  ppr.  attired  and  unguled  or  holding  in  the 
mouth  three  ears  of  com  [wheat]  bladed  of  the  first, 

(31  "In  Spe  Resurrect.  Beata  Hie  Jacet  Corpus  Henrici  filii  natu 
maxime  Henrici  Tooker,  nuper  de  Winton  in  Com.  South'ton  Arm. 
Obijit  viginta  die  Octobiis  An'o  Dom.,  1710,  et  aet  sual  37. 

Morte  magis  certium  dubium  est  nil  tempo  mortis  serus  aut  citus 
Semper  sumus  ergo  parati. 

The  arms  on  this  tomb  are  somewhat  worn  but  the  three  sea-horses, 
and  the  crest  a  lion's  gamb,  holding  in  the  foot  a  battle  axe,  shows 
plainly  that  the  arms  are  those  of  Tooker,  or  Tucker,  of  Devonshire. 

(4)  "  In  Memor>'  of  Captain  Joseph  Glover,  of  Boston,  son  of  Captain 
Elisha  and  Mrs.  Jerusha  Glover,  who  departed  this  life  Jan.  11,  1792,  in 
the  25th  year  of  his  age." 

It  is  not  likely  that  the  church  was  in  existence  in  1792,  but  Captain 
Glover  probably  commanded  a  vessel  lying  at  the  wharf,  and  was  buried 
in  the  old  church  yard. 

Captain  Henr>'  Tooker,  whose  epitaph  has  been  given,  was  at  one 
time  sheriff  of  Surr>'  county. 


Mrs.  Elizabeth  Allen's  P>it.\ph.— At  "Claremont,"  on  James 
river,  in  Surry  county,  which  was  so  long  the  seat  of  the  Aliens,  and 
where  their  fine  old  house  still  remains,  is  a  very  handsome  altar  tomb, 


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bearing  empaled,  per  chev.  gu.  and  emt.  in  chief  hvo  lions  heads  erased 
or  (corresponding  with  Allen,  of  Derbyshire,  London  and  Staffordshire) 
ar  three  bars  ivavy gu.  for  Bassett),  and  this  epitaph:  "To  the  memory 
of  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Bassett,  Esq.,  one  of  the  Council  in 
Virginia.  A  sincere  Christian,  a  constant  communicant,  an  affectionate 
consort  and  indulgent  parent,  a  tender  mistress,  friendly  neighbor,  pious 
without  superstition,  regular  without  ill  humor,  charitable  without  osten- 
tation; beloved  in  her  lifetime,  bewailed  at  her  death,  especially  by  her 
husband,  John  Allen.  She  died  on  the  14th  day  of  Oct.,  1738,  in  the 
42d  year  of  her  age." 

Parker.— Information  is* desired  as  to  who  was  the  first  wife,  and  who 
the  parents  and  grandparents  of  Benjamin  Parker,  of  Charles  City  co., 
whose  will  was  dated  June  13,  1827.  B. 


Farrar. — A  genealogy  of  the  Farrar  family  will  begin  in  the  January 
number. 


Epitaphs  of  V^ir(;inians  in  Georgia. 

April  12,  T898. 

In  going  through  the  cemetery  at  Greensborough,  Ga.,  on  yesterday,  I 
found  the  following  monument  inscriptions: 

**  In  memory  of  Ann  Austin  Winston,  born  in  Goochland  county,  Va., 
April  19,  1788,  died  in  Green  county,  Ga.,  January  5.  1820." 

•*John  Coleman,  born  in  Va.,  Feb.  20,  1784,  died  Oct.  29,  184 1.  As 
a  husband,  devout  and  sincere,  as  a  father,  kind  and  affectionate." 

'•  In  memory  of  Mrs.  Lucy  Willis,  who  was  born  in  Mecklenburg  co., 
Va.,  and  died  in  Green  county,  Ga.,  on  4th  April,  1843,  in  82nd  year  of 
her  age." 

"Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Vincent  and  Priscilla  Sanford,  born  in  Va., 
Aug.  5,  1 8 10,  and  died  Aug.  1830  (or  1880)." 

"  Vincent  Sanford,  born  in  V^a.,  April  17th,  1777,  died  March  27,  1859." 

"  Burr  Sanford,  born  in  Va.,  Nov.  18,  1807,  and  died  1826." 

•'Jeremiah  Sanford,  born  in  Va.,  Nov.  4,  1739,  died  Aug.  12,  1825. 
He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  a  friend  of  Washington  and  an 
hone.st  man." 

The  Sanfords  were  from  Loudoun  county. 

John  L.  Hardeman. 

Vestrymen  Upper  Parish  Nansemond  Cointv,  Virc.inia, 
1760-1791. 

Josiah  Riddick  (elected  in  1747,  vice  Edw'd  Norfleet,  deceased.) 
Mills  Riddick.  - 

Lemuel  Riddick  (resigned  in  1773;  "  having  served  forty  years.") 
Willis  Riddick. 


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John  Rawles. 

Thos.  VV'inbourne  (resigned  in  1767). 

James  Gibson. 

William  Moore. 

Hening  Lembtey. 

William  Baker. 

Edward  Riddick,  resigned  in  1767  (elected  in  1760,  vice  Richard 
Webb.  dec'dJ. 

Jacob  Sumner. 

Benj.  Baker   elected  in  1761,  vice  Wm.  Baker,  dec'd). 

)eremiah  Godwin  (elected  in  1764). 

Henry  Riddick  (elected  in  1765,  "in  place  of  his  father  dec'd"). 

Thos.  Gilchrist  {elected  in  1767). 

David  Meade  (elected  in  1767). 

Josiah  Granbury  (elected  in  1770,  vice  Jas.  Gibson). 

Samuel  Cohoon  (elected  in  1770,  vice  Josiah  Riddick,  resigned). 

Thos.  Norfleet  (elected  in  1771,  vice  Wm.  Moore,  dec'd). 

Wills  Cowper  (elected  in  1772,  vice  Thos.  (iilchrist  . 

Willis  Streator  (elected  in  1773,  vice  Josiah  Granbury,  dec'd). 

Andrew  Meade  (elected  in  1773,  vice  David  Meade'. 

John  Riddick  (elected  in  1773,  ^'^^^  Lemuel  Riddick,  resigned). 

John  Brickie  (elected  in  1777,  vice  Thos.  Norfleet,  dec'd). 

John  Driver  (elected  in  1777,  vice  Andrew  Meade). 

Christopher  Roberts,  Sr.  (elected  in  1777,  vice  Jacob  Sumner,  resigned*. 

Christopher  Roberts,  Jr.  (elected  in  1778,  vice  Christo.  Roberts,  Sr., 
dec'd). 

John  Cole  (elected  in  1778,  vice  Wills  Cowper,  resigned). 

Josiah  Riddick  (elected  in  1778,  vice  Willis  Streator). 

William  Pugh  (elected  in  17791. 

Robt.  M.  Riddick  (elected  in  1781). 

Elisha  Darden  (elected  in  1781). 

Willis  Riddick  (^elected  in  1781). 

Nath'l  Norfleet  (elected  in  1784). 

In  1785,  the  "free  inhabitants"  of  L'pper  Parish.  Nansemond  county, 
elected  the  following  vestrymen:  Henr>'  Riddick,  Willis  Riddick,  Josiah 
Riddick,  Rol>ert  M(K>re  Riddick,  John  Riddick,  Jethro  Riddick,  Demp- 
sey  Sumner,  Rich'd  Baker,  William  King,  John  Giles,  Abraham  Parker. 

In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  Wills  Cowper  was  elected  vestryman  in 
place  of  Colonel  Henry  Riddick,  dec'd. 

In  1790,  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  elected  another  vestr>'  composed 
of  the  following:  W^illis  Riddick,  John  Riddick,  Jeremiah  Godwin.  Sr., 
Jethro  Riddick,  Riddick  Hunter,  John  Giles,  Robert  M.  Riddick,  Henry 
Harrison,  Josiah  Riddick,  William  King,  Hardv  Parker,  Robert  Cowper. 

To  this  vestry  was  added  in  1791,  John  Vaughn,  vice  Maj.  Jeremiah 
Godwin,  dec'd. 


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Powell. — Can  any  information  be  obtained  in  regard  to  the  ancestors 
of  Lucas  Powell,  who  was  bom  in  Williamsburg,  Virginia,  in  the  year 
1720,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Edwards,  daughter  of  John  Edwards,  who 
leased  thirty  acres  of  land  in  New  York  city  about  the  year  1750,  for  99 
years.     If  so,  direct  to, 

Mrs.  James  S.  Pilcher, 

Addison  Ave,,  NashvUie,  Tenn. 


Death  of  Captain  John  McDowell,  1742. 

(Draper  MSS.  Collection,  Virginia  MSS.,  IV,  3.) 

Jessamine  County,  Kentucky,  July  27th,  1808. 
Dear  Sir: 

I  acknowledj^e  my  neglect  in  not  writing  you  a  Short  Statement  of 
the  Battle  with  the  Indians  in  which  my  father  was  Killed,  in  the  year 
1742. 

About  the  first  of  December,  1742,  a  Party  of  thirty-three  Delaway 
Indians  came  into  the  Settlement  which  has  alway  been  called  Borden's 
Land,  they  ware  one  whole  day  at  my  father's  house,  he  treated  them 
with  whiskey,  they  Seemed  friendly  And  Said  they  ware  on  their  way 
to  the  Cataba  Nation  as  they  and  the  Cataba  Indians  ware  at  War,  they 
went  from  my  father's  down  on  a  Small  River  Called  the  South  Branch 
of  the  North  Branch  of  James  River,  there  they  Incamped  7  or  8  days 
and  hunted  and  went  to  Peoples  houses,  Scared  the  wimen  and  Chil- 
dren, took  what  they  wanted,  and  in  Some  Instances  Shot  Some  of  the 
Peoples  horses  that  run  in  the  Range  where  they  hunted,  and  Shot 
Arrows  into  Some  horses. 

Complaint  being  made  to  the  County  Lieutenant,  Colo.  James  Paton, 
of  these  things,  he  Sent  Ordirs  to  my  father  John  McDowell,  to  Collect 
his  Company  of  Militia  and  Conduct  the  Indians  on  their  way  to  the 
Cutaba  Nation  till  they  ware  out  of  the  Setlement  of  the  white  People, 
my  father  called  his  Company  together,  which  consisted  of  thirty-three 
or  four  men,  which  Included  all  the  then  Setlers  within  what  is  now 
Rockbridge  County,  in  Virginia,  and  whilst  he  was  collecting  his  men, 
the  Indians  moved  their  Camp  to  the  mouth  of  the  Little  River  they 
first  incamped  on,  and  there  Incamped. 

My  father  with  his  Company  of  33  men  went  within  about  one  (|uarter 
of  a  mile  of  the  Indians  Camp  in  the  Evning  and  there  he  Incamped. 
the  Indians  next  morning  by  day  light  left  their  camp  and  went  on  their 
way  along  their  War  Pjlth  and  about  fourteen  or  fifteen  miles  on  their 
way,  their  War  Path  went  by  where  Peter  Salley  then  lived,  in  the  fork 
of  James  River  where  the  North  River  Emptied  into  James  River  Just 
al)()ve  the  Blue  Ridge.  My  father  Supposing  that  the  orders  he  had 
Recivd  ware  not  fully  obayed  till  the  Indians  went  Past  Salleys  that  then 
being  farthest  Setlement,   made  by  the  white   People  on  the   Indians 


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Road,  followed  the  Indians  and  in  7  or  8  Miles  overtook  them,  about 
one-half  of  my  father's  men  ware  on  horseback,  the  others  on  foot,  when 
they  overtooke  the  Indians  my  father  with  Kight  or  ten  of  his  men, 
Rode  on  till  they  came  to  the  front  of  the  Indians,  the  Capt.  of  the  In- 
dians knew  my  father  and  they  went  on  togather  talking,  the  men  who 
ware  afoot  came  in  the  Rear  of  the  Indians  and  one  of  the  Indians  being 
lame  fell  behind  the  Rest  and  the  white  men  all  Passed  him  but  one, 
this  lame  Indian  left  the  Path  and  went  into  the  Woods,  the  white  man 
who  was  in  the  rear  fiered  his  gun  at  him,  which  was  loaded  with  Brista 
Blue  Shot,  the  moment  the  gun  cracked  the  Indian  Raised  the  War 
Whoop  and  the  Indians  who  ware  in  front  flung  their  Budgets  and  fiered 
on  the  white  men  who  ware  riding  along  and  talking  with  them,  my 
father  and  two  or  three  of  his  men  ware  Shot  and  fell  from  their  horses, 
the  Battle  then  begun  and  Seemed  in  Some  measure  doubtfull  for  Some 
time,  But  at  length  the  Indians  give  way  leaving  Seventeen  of  their  men 
Dead  on  the  ground,  of  the  whites  there  was  my  father  and  .Seven  of 
his  men  killed  and  but  three  Wounded,  the  Battle  was  fought  on  the 
fourteenth  day  of  December,  174?,  about  three  or  four  miles  from  Peter 
Salley's  on  the  flat  on  the  Kast  .Side  of  the  North  River.  The  Indians 
then  (that  ware  alive)  tooke  into  the  blue  Ridge  and  kept  it  till  they  got 
to  Petomack  and  I  was  told  only  ten  .  f  them  got  home,  as  all  that  ware 
Wounded  died  of  their  wounds,  then  there  was  War  with  the  North- 
wards Indians  for  about  one  year,  And  in  the  year  1744  there  was  a 
Treaty  held  with  the  Indians  at  Lancaster,  in  Pennsylvania  at  which 
Treaty  the  Indians  made  a  deed  to  Virginia  or  to  the  white  People,  to 
the  Country  lying  North  West  of  the  .Alagainia  Mounton  on  what  was 
called  the  Laurel  hill,  down  a  Creek  to  Alegania  River,  down  the  Said 
River  and  down  the  Ohio  to  the  mouth  of  what  is  now  called  Tenasee 
River,  up  the  (  )  which  is  now  called  the  Mussel  .Sholes  which  was 
Suposed  the  laurel  hill  when  Tenasee  River  broke  through  it,  and  then 
along  Laurel  hill  in  all  its  bends,  &c.,  to  the  Beginning.  1  am  now 
atending  Jessamine  Court  and  has  not  time  to  correct  or  transcribe  what 
I  have  wrote.  I  only  add  my  best  wishes  for  your  and  your  family's 
happiness,  and  believe  me  to  be  your  Sincere  friend 
And  Very  Humble  Ser't, 

S.vm'l  McDowkll. 

(Revised  and  amended,  and  prepared  to  be  inserted  in  the  history  of 
Indian  Wars.) 


Battle  with  the  Indians  1742.  Paid  17. 

Colo.  Arthur  Campbell,  VV^ashington  County,  Virginia, 
to  be  left  at  Abington. 

(Ever\  thing  below  dotted  line  was  on  the  reverse  side  of  MSS.) 


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Captain  John  McDoivell. 

Captain  John  McDowell,  number  12  in  the  **  List  of  all  Musterables 
of  Augusta  Connty  Und^r  their  Respective  Officers  and  Captains.*' 
(Draper MSS.  Collection,  Preston  Papers,  I,  10.     September  15,  1742.) 

**  Sumon'd,  Chads  Donoho  Ditto  Excused  Upon  Solomon  Maftet  mak- 
ing oath  that  the  Governour  told  him  that  whoever  Signed  a  petition  for 
John  McDowell  to  be  their  Captain  might  serve  under  him  if  they 
pleased."     (Draper MSS.  Collection,  Preston  Papers,  X^  2\.     September 

15.  1742.) 

Captain  Satnuel  McDoivell. 

In  "A  general  Return  of  the  Army  Incampt  on  Klk  River  Under  the 
Com  '  )  of  Coilo.  Andrew  Lewis,  Commander  in  Chief,  September 
27th,  1774,"  Capt.  McDowell  is  given  as  from  Augusta.  (Draper  MSS. 
Collection,  Virginia  MSS,  II,  24.) 

In  Col.  William  Fleming's  MS.  Journal  of  the  Point  Pleasant  Cam- 
paign, 1774,  (Draper  MSS.  Collection,  Virginia  MSS.,  II,  70)  Captain 
McDowell  is  mentioned  several  times  as  commanding  a  company  (see 
quotations  below),  and  in  Dr.  Draper's  rough  index  to  this  journal  he 
refers  to  him  as  Captain  Satnuel  McDowell,  though  on  what  authority  I 
do  not  know.  Throughout  the  journal  he  is  referred  to  as  Captain 
McDowell,  without  any  given  name. 


Hudson — Ritherford. 

<i)  1.  John  Rutherford;  son  of  John  and  Isabella  Allein  Rutherford, 
married  in  Ireland  (name  of  wife  wanted)  and  had  four  children: 

1.  Thomas;  2.  John;  3.  Esther;  4.  Elizabeth.  Would  like  to  know 
something  of  the  history-  of  this  family  as  they  probably  came  to 
America. 

2.  James  Rutherford,  brother  of  i.  John  (above),  married  his  cousin, 
Margaret  McMahon  and  came  to  America  in  October,  17.^8. 

Their  children  were:  i.  Samuel  (born  deaf);  2.  Jane  (Jean),  married 
Hudson;  3.   Isabel.     Who  did  Isabel  marry,  and  did  she  have  issue  ? 

3.  Elizabeth  Rutherford  (sister  of  John  and  James),  Married  Hugh 
Hudson,  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Maryland. 

Children  were:  i.  Thomas;  2.  John;  3.  William;  4.  Margaret;  5. 
Mary;  6.  Jane.  Nothing  further  is  known  of  this  family,  can  any  one 
give  records  of  any  of  the  children's  families  ? 

McClelland— Carrack. 

(2)  Barbary  Walker,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  granddaughter  of  John, 
the  emigrant  (see  Virginia  Historical  Magazifie  for  April,  '99),  married 
Wm.  McClelland,  December  22,  1766.  Their  children  were:  i.  Anna, 
married  Rev.  Samuel   Carrack,   President  of  Blount  College;   2.  John 


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McClelland,  married  Mar>'  Wallace,  ^'urther  records  of  these  children 
wanted.  Who  was  Mary  Wallace's  father  ?  One  author  gives  her 
lather's  name  as  Judge  Caleb  Wallace. 

Walker. 

(3)  Alexander  Walker,  eighth  son  of  John,  the  emigrant,  married  Jane 
Hammer  (or  Hummer),  January  8,  1747,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
eleven  children,  viz: 

I.  John,  married  first,  Margaret  Hudson,  and  after  her  death  he  mar- 
ried Margaret  Kelso;  2.  William,  married  Jane  Walker;  3.  James,  mar- 
ried Margaret  (Peggy)  Gray;  4.  Ann,  married  James  Walker;  5.  Alex- 
ander, died  young;  6.  Joseph,  died  young;  7.  David,  married  Jane 
Holmes;  8.  Alexander,  married  Mary  M.  Harmon;  9.  Jane,  married 
Andrew  McMahan;  10.  Joseph,  married  Katherine  Kelso;  11.  Catherine, 
married  Samuel  Taylor. 

It  is  known  that  Alexander,  the  father,  served  his  country  during  the 
Revolutionary'  war,  by  making  fire  arms,  he  being  a  gunsmith,  and  his 
sons  helped  him  in  this  woric.  John  and  William  served  in  the  war,  and 
the  remaining  .>ons  look  turns  helping  their  father  carr>'  on  the  larm, 
and  serving  in  the  struggle  of  the  Colonies  for  liberty.  No  official 
.••ecord  has  ever  been  found  of  such  ser\ice.  Anyone  having  such 
records,  or  knowing  where  they  can  be  found,  will  help  very  materially 
in  the  preparation  for  publication  of  a  Genealogical  History  of  several 
Virginia  families,  by  communicating  with  the  undersigned. 

9.  Jane  Walker  (above)  and  Andrew  McMahan  had  six  children: 

I.  Alexander,  married  Ellen  Moore;  2.  Samuel,  married  Betsey  Wil- 
liams; 3.  Jane  (nothing  further  is  known  of  her);  4.  Peggy,  married  David 

Paxton;  5.  Andrew,  married  Miss Black;  6.  Ann,  married  Moore 

Paxton.     Wanted  names  of  descendants  of  Jane  and  Andrew  McMahan. 

Mrs.  J.  B.  White, 
6jo  Huuibolt  St.^  Kansas  City,  Jfo. 


Errata,  in  this  Nimber.— P.  127,  1.  2.  for  **  shows,"  read  '*show;" 
p.  131,  1.  20,  for  **  attemps,"  read  *'  attempts;  "  p.  172,  1.  6  from  bottom, 
for  **  Dettington,"  read  **  Dettingen;  "  p.  176,  bottom,  for  **  they,"  read 
"he;"  p.  156,  1.  II,  for  **  Bishops,"  read  "Bishop;"  p.  188,  1.  21,  for 
"  were,"  read  "  was." 


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BOOK  REVIEWS. 

WoRD-BooK  OF  Virginia  Folk-Speech.  By  B.  W.  Green.  Rich- 
mond, Va.     Published  by  Wm.  Ellis  Jones,  1899.     Pp.  435. 

We  hail  this  volume,  in  spite  of  its  defects,  as  the  harbinger  of  a  new 
day.  We  welcome  it  as  the  modest  contribution  to  scholarship  of  an 
unassuming  man  of  scholarly  tastes,  of  a  man  who  loves  learning  for  its 
own  sake;  and  we  believe  that  the  book,  in  spite  of  faults  not  easy  to 
overlook,  entitles  the  author  to  a  position  in  that  Virginia  school  of 
English  scholarship  which  began  with  Thos.  Jefferson,  bloomed  with 
new  vigor  in  Thomas  R.  Price,  and  has,  in  more  recent  years,  made 
several  Virginia  institutions  recognized  as  centres  of  illumination  in  the 
study  of  the  mother-tongue. 

There  is  no  more  fruitful  and  less  cultivated  soil  for  the  philologist 
than  the  "  folk-speech  "  of  some  parts  of  the  United  States.  The  negro 
patois  or  jargon  of  the  South ;  the  speech  of  the  Tennessee  mountaineers; 
the  lingo  of  the  Georgia  "cracker;"  the  provincialisms  of  the  higher 
classes  of  South  Carolina,  Virginia,  New  York  and  other  ancient  com- 
monwealths; the  thieves'  slang  of  our  large  cities  and  the  universal 
slang  of  the  western  states— all  these  constitute  inviting  and  inexhaust- 
ible subjects  for  philological  research  and  exploration.  It  is  all  but  virgin 
soil;  and  we  hope  that  the  example  of  this  brave  pioneer,  Dr.  Benjamin 
W.  Green,  of  Warwick  county,  will  erelong  be  followed  by  some  of  our 
specialists  in  English  philology,  leading  them  to  devote  a  portion  of  their 
time  to  the  study  of  English  "  as  she  is  spoke  "  in  Virginia. 

If  the  use  of  "  forewords  "  for  preface  should  seem  to  savor  of  affecta- 
tion or  to  betray  the  novice,  the  sentence,  "  These  words  are  simply  put 
down  as  they  are.  and  not  as  some  people  think  they  ought  to  be,"  and 
others  of  like  import,  show  the  true  instinct  of  the  lexicographer,  and 
raise  the  author  immeasurably  above  the  mass  of  sciolists  and  mounte- 
banks who  have  deluged  us  with  books  published  by  large  houses  under 
captivating  but  delusive  titles. 

Interesting  but  misleading  is  the  list  of  some  Virginia  Names  spelt  one 
7vay  and  called  another.  We  say  misleading  because  the  author  does 
not  specify  either  the  period  when  or  the  class  of  people  by  whom  these 
names  have  been  or  are  so  pronounced.  As  one  swallow  can  not  make 
a  summer,  so  the  local  corruption  of  a  name  should  not  not  be  ascribed 
to  a  large  community,  or  to  the  state  as  a  whole.  For  instance,  he  gives 
about  a  hundred  names  "  spelt  one  way  and  called  another;  "  but  when  ? 
where  ^  by  whom  ?  Now,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  only  about  fifteen  of  these 
names  are  pronounced  to-day  in  the  way  stated  by  Dr.  Green.  Some  of 
these  names  are  indeed  curiosities  and  are  so  regarded  by  strangers  and 
by  Virginians;  but  all  sections  of  this  country  and  of  England  will  fur- 
nish parallel  cases.  F'or  the  benefit  of  students  outside  of  Virginia,  we 
give  most  of  the  names  regularly  pronounced  in  Virginia  as  indicated  by 


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Dr.  Green:  Blount,  Boulware,  Burwell,  Cluverius,  Deneufville,  En- 
roughty,  Fauquier,  Fourqurean,  Gibson,  Gilliam,  Gloucester,  Jordan. 
Kean,  Langhorne,  Lawrence,  Marye,  Michaux,  Seawell,  Taliaferro, 
I'rquhart,  Warwick,  Woodward  and  Woolfolk.  Some  of  these  are 
curiosities.  Others  equally  baffling  to  strangers  but  not  given  in  the 
list  are: 

Barham,  pronounced  B^rrum  ;  Barksdale,  pronounced  Barksdel  : 
Baughan,  pronounced  Bawn  ;  Beall,  pronounced  Bell ;  Beckham,  pro- 
nounced Beckum ;  Bigelow,  pronounced  Biglo ;  Boush.  j)ronounced 
Bush  ;  Bowles,  pronounced  Boles ;  Braithwaite,  pronounced  Brethwait ; 
Campbell,  pronounced  Cammell ;  Chamblin.  pronounced  Shamblin : 
Ct)upland,  pronounced  Copeland  ;  Cowles,  pronounced  Coles  ;  Craftord. 
pronounced  Crawford ;  Cralle,  pronounced  Crawley  ;  Darracott,  pro- 
nounced Derricut ;  Doxie,  pronounced  Dozher ;  Dupuy,  pronounced 
Dupee  ;  Evans,  pronounced  Iv'ns ;  F'ahrinholt,  pronounced  F.lrrinholt ; 
Fitzhugh,  pronounced  Ftchew  ;  Eraser,  pronounced  Frazher ;  Gwaltney. 
pronounced  Gwartney ;  Guy,  pronounced  Gi  (hard  "g*M;  Halsey, 
pronounced  Haulcy ;  Harrison,  pronounced  Harreson,  obscure  •*e"; 
Hoge,  pronounced  Hoag ;  Johnston,  pronounced  Johnson :  Latan^, 
pronounced  Latny ;  Madison,  pronounced  Madeson,  obscure  "e": 
Moncure,  pronounced  Mftncilre  generally,  but  M6ncure  by  certain  classes: 
Parham,  pronounced  P.lrrum  ;  Patteson,  pronounced  with  obscure  '*e"  : 
Pearson,  pronounced  Peerson  ;  Pugh,  pronounced  Pu  ;  Puryear,  pro- 
nounced Purreer,  with  obscure  **  u  "  ;  Reynolds,  pronounced  Rennolds  ; 
Rives,  pronounced  Reeves  ;  Seay,  pronounced  See  ;  Steger,  pronounced 
Stigger;  V^aughan,  pronounced  Vawn  ;  VWisiger,  pronounced  Wizzi- 
ger,  hard  *'g; "  Wilkinson,  pronounced  VVMlkerson. 

The  name  McLeod,  pronounced  McCloud,  is  now  found  in  some  parts 
of  Virginia.  Veatman,  pronounced  Vateman,  is  found  in  eastern  Vir- 
ginia. 

A  considerable  number  of  names  are  pronounced  in  two  or  more 
ways  by  large  classes  of  people  :  Baird,  pronounced  Bared,  Beard,  and 
Bayard  ;  Calvert  pronounced  divert  and  Colvert ;  Camp,  pronounced 
Camp  and  Kemp ;  Carter,  pronounced  Carter  and  Cyarter ;  Chalmers, 
pronounced  Ch.llmers  and  Chambers;  Chamberlain,-laine,  layne,  pro- 
nounced Chamberlin,  Chamberlin,  Charmberlin;  F'auntleroy,  pronounced 
Fauntleroy,  Fantleroy,  occasionally  Fantilroy;  Fontaine,  pronounced 
Fountain,  PYmtin,  occasionally  Fontafne;  Harwood,  pronounced  Har- 
wood,  HArrod,  Horrod,  Howard;  Houston,  pronounced  Hooston, 
Hfiseton,  occasionally  Houseton;  Ker,  Kerr,  Carr,  pronounced  Car  and 
Cvar;  PAtrick,  pronounced  Patrick  and  Partrick;  Robinson  and  Robert- 
son, pronounced  Roberson,  generally;  Semple,  pronounced  Semple, 
Sample,  Sarmple;  Sinclair,  pronounced  Sinclair  by  educated  people,  by 
others  occasionally  Sfnkler;  Sweeney,  pronounced  Sweeny  and  Swinny; 
Whitehurst  pronounced  Whitehurst  and  Whiteust,  **h  "  generally  silent; 
Woodhouse,    pronounced   Woodhouse   and   Woodus,    '*h"   generally 


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silent  Sewell  is  prononnced  Suel;  while  Seawell  is  pronounced  Sowl, 
rhyming  with  "cowl."  Both  names  are  familiar  to  well-informed  Vir- 
ginians. 

A  large  number  of  Dr.  Green's  statements  must  refer  to  remote  periods 
and  to  special  classes:  he  cannot  intend  to  leave  the  impression  that: 
Armisted  is  now  pronounced  Umsted;  Berkeley,  Barkley:  Drewry,  Druit; 
Randolph,  Randall,  etc.,  etc.  We  do  not  deny  that  such  violent  distor- 
tions can  and  do  exist  everywhere;  but  we  must  say  that  Dr.  Green's 
statements  in  this  list  are  very  misleading.  Berkeley  is  regularly  Berk- 
ley. Randolph  is  Randuf,  among  educated  people;  occasionally  turned 
into  Rdndof  and  Rdndolf.  James  is  called  Jeames  by  a  few  very  old- 
fashioned  gentlemen.  (We  do  not  call  negro  patois  Virginia  English.) 
The  statements  of  Dr.  Green  might  possibly  unsettle  some  good  people 
as  to  the  proper  pronunciation  of  such  familiar  names  as  Drewry's  Bluff; 
Sewell's  Point;  Sir  VVm.  Berkeley;  Lord  Botetourt;  Sir  VVm.  Gooch  or 
Goochland  county;  Commodore  Maury;  John  Randolph,  etc.;  James 
river,  etc.,  etc.  Neither  school  children  nor  educated  grown  p>eople 
would  recognize  these  names  and  many  others  as  pronounced  in  the  list 
given  at  pp.  13-16. 

A  few  peculiarities,  not  given  by  our  author,  may  be  mentioned  here: 
Aylett  is  sometimes  called  Ellett,  by  uneducated  people;  Cromwell  is 
sometimes  Crum well;  Servaunt  is  sometimes  Sarvent;  Gresham  is  some- 
times Greshum,  sometimes  Gressum;  Daniel  is  by  certain  classes  pro- 
nounced Dan'l.  The  old  Hogwood  family,  of  eastern  Virginia,  are  now 
Hoggards.  The  New  England  Davenports,  settled  in  Virginia,  are  called 
Dev'nport. 

It  seems  to  us,  therefore,  that  Dr  Green's  list  of  names,  after  being 
supplemented  very  considerably,  might  be  revised,  and  subdivided  some- 
what as  follows: 

1.  Names  never  pronounced  now  as  they  are  spelt;  e.g.,  Boulware, 
Brockenbrough,  Burwell. 

2.  Names  pronounced  in  two  or  more  ways  by  educated  people;  e.  g.y 
Baird,  Fontaine. 

3.  Names  distorted  by  ignorant  whites  and  by  negroes;  e.  g.^  Ran- 
dolph, Berkeley,  Armistead. 

One  of  the  most  valuable  features  of  the  book  is  the  list  of  **  folk-say- 
ings." proverbs,  saws  and  superstitions,  running  through  pp.  17-36. 
If  such  lists  could  be  compiled  for  every  state,  it  would  be  a  valuable 
contribution  to  the  study  of  folk-lore. 

Some  of  these  before  us  are  racy  of  the  soil;  others  are  common  to 
the  whole  English  stock;  while  not  a  few  have  no  doubt  been  handed 
down  from  the  time  of  our  Aryan,  or  Indo-European  ancestors. 

The  arrangement  of  this  list  aims  to  be  alphabetical,  but  occasionally 
fails  in  that  respect,  so  that  we  can  not  always  find  an  old  friend.  On 
the  whole,  however,  the  list  is  excellent,  and  its  author  deserves  our 
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Omissions  there  must  always  be:  time  and  space  permit  us  to  supply 
only  a  few  of  the  proverbs  and  superstitions  familiar  to  us  from  a  life- 
long residence  in  eastern  Virginia,  but  not  found  in  the  list: 

A  miss  is  as  good  as  a  mile.  A  red  sunset  is  a  sign  of  warmer  weather. 
As  dry  as  a  chip.  As  dead  as  a  door-nail.  As  plain  as  day.  As  black 
as  the  ace  of  spades.  As  sharp  as  a  razor.  As  dumb  as  an  oyster. 
As  poor  as  a  snake.  As  blind  as  a  bat.  As  quick  as  a  Hash.  As 
weak  as  a  kitten.     As  lean  as  a  rake. 

Before  you  can  say  Jack  Robinson.  Between  the  devil  and  the  deep 
sea.     Birds  of  a  feather  flock  together. 

**  Every  man  to  his  liking,"  as  the  old  woman  said  when  she  kissed 
the  cow. 

F*ew  and  far  between      From  bad  to  worse. 

Give  him  an  inch  and  he'll  take  an  ell.  Go  to  grass.  Go  to  Jericho. 
The  ground-hog  superstition  seems  to  be  left  out. 

Hang  a  horseshoe  over  the  door  for  good  luck. 

Left  high  and  dry.  Look  before  you  leap.  Like  a  poor  boy  at  a 
frolic.     Love  me,  love  my  dog.     Nothing  risked,  nothing  gained. 

One  swallow  can  not  make  a  summer. 

Rain  or  shine. 

Slick  as  an  eel.     Small  potatoes  and  few  in  a  hill. 

The  flower  of  the  flock.  Three  sheets  in  the  wind.  To  come  out  at 
the  small  end  of  the  horn.  To  be  under  some  one's  thumb.  To  tight 
the  devil  with  fire.  To  make  silk  out  of  sows'  ears.  To  salt  the  old 
cow  for  the  calf.  To  sleep  like  a  top.  To  throw  rice  and  slipper  after 
a  newly-married  couple  is  a  sign  of  good  luck.  Tooth  and  nail.  To 
smell  a  rat.  To  buy  a  pig  in  a  bag.  To  take  a  leap  in  the  dark.  To 
go  to  wrack  and  niin.     Where  there  is  a  will  there  is  a  way. 

You  can  take  a  horse  to  water,  but  you  can't  make  him  drink.  You 
could  have  knocked  me  down  with  a  straw.  You  mustn't  look  a  gift 
horse  in  the  mouth. 

The  principal  part  of  the  book,  numerically,  is  the  '*  Word-book," 
covering  pages  37-435,  and  purporting  to  give  the  vocabulary  of  the 
Virginians  of  various  periods.  "The  words  have  been  taken  from  the 
mouths  of  the  people,  from  books,  newspapers,  and  wherever  they  could 
be  found."     So  says  the  author  in  his  preface. 

Now,  this  sounds  very  inviting  at  first;  but,  when  we  come  to 
examine  these  400  pages,  we  find  ourselves  in  a  veritable  wilderness  of 
Sahara.  The  author  has  drawn  no  distinction  as  to  time,  as  to  place,  or 
as  to  class  of  speakers.  Colonial,  post-revolutionary  and  modern 
words  are  put  together  with  no  dates  to  guide  us.  Negro  jargon,  low- 
white  or  illiterate  corruptions,  and  interesting  provincialisms  of  the  edu- 
cated classes — all  are  crowded  promiscuously  together,  with  no  signs  by 
which  the  outside  student  can  classify  them. 

We  can  imagine  the  delight  with  which  our  aflTectiouate  cousins  ot 
some  sections  will  devour  this  book.     Having  always  looked  down  upon 


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US  with  contempt,  regarding  us  as  half-educated  barbarians,  they  will 
confirm  their  opinions  by  an  appeal  to  this  lexicon  of  Virginia  speech 
published  by  an  antiquarian  prominently  identified  with  the  Virginia 
Historical  Society.  We  protest,  therefore,  that  Dr.  Green  should  have 
classified  his  words,  labelling  them  negro-English,  illiterate-white-Eng- 
lish, and  English  of  the  higher  classes  including  provincialisms  that  can 
be  paralleled  in  every  State  of  this  country  and  in  all  countries. 

For  instance.  Dr.  Green  does  not  mean  to  leave  the  impression  that 
the  gentlefolks  of  Virginia  say  "agin"  for  ** again"  and  ''against"  ; 
"arter"  for  *'after";  *'bar"  for  "bare";  "beliked"  for  'Miked"; 
"bellowses"  for  "bellows ";  *'gwine "  for  "going",  etc.;  but  he 
would  leave  that  impression  upon  a  person  that  did  not  know  better  or 
wish  to  know  better.  And,  unfortunately,  there  are  some  of  the  latter 
class. 

For  going  into  details  as  to  these  thousands  of  words,  neither  time  nor 
space  is  available.  Only  a  few  omissions  can  be  supplied,  and  some 
misprints  noted. 

The  familiar  "  all-told  "  (all  being  counted)  is  missing  "Coon  "  for 
"  raccoon  "  is  not  given.  "  Dern  "  is  a  familiar  expletive,  and  might  be 
given.  It  is  good  Anglo-Saxon.  Under  "gall,"  the  meaning  "  audac- 
ity "should  be  added.  A  popular  expression  in  Virginia  is  "great 
friend,"  or  "  great  friends  "  "  Ground-hog  "  should  be  supplied.  The 
adjective  "  high  "  is  used  in  sense  of  "  honorable  "  in  eastern  Virginia; 
e,  ^.,  "a  high  man."  "  Henpecked  "  should  by  all  means  be  added  to 
the  word-list.  "  Henchman,"  used  as  a  term  of  contempt,  is  a  political 
term  in  Virginia.  "Old  fellow  "and  "  old  fogy  "  represent  opposite 
uses  of  the  adjective  "old."  "Pants"  is  the  vulgar  form  of  "panta- 
loons." Valley  readers  will  miss  the  word  "  apple-butter."  "To  rake 
from  fore  to  aft "  is  a  strong  expression  in  Eastern  Virginia.  "  Rickets  " 
should  precede  "rickety."  "  Sep'n  "  is  standard  darkey-English  for 
'  *  except. "  "  Shucks  !  "  is  a  favorite  interjection  of  contempt  in  Virginia. 
"  Scour,"  to  search  thoroughly,  is  a  popular  word  in  Virginia,  and  should 
be  noted  in  the  vocabulary.     "  Blues,"  meaning  "  low  spirits,"  is  left  out. 

A  few  errors  and  misprints  should  be  noted.  Names  in  "ful "  such 
as  'handful  "  are  frequently  spelt  with  two  I's.  "  Until  is  spelt  with 
two  I's  on  page  lo  and  elsewhere.  "  But  "  is  marked  "  adj."  on  page 
74;  it  is  never  an  adjective. 

In  conclusion,  we  thank  Dr.  Green  for  his  book,  the  result  of  great 
labor  and  research.  We  hope  that  he  will  soon  publish  a  new  and  revised 
edition,  correcting  the  faults  which  we  have  felt  it  our  duty  to  point  out. 
Of  misrepresenting  the  speech  of  Virginians,  he  is  unintentionally  guilty; 
for  we  doubt  not  that  he,  like  ourselves,  believes  that  the  best  English 
spoken  in  the  world  is  that  of  educated,  unaffected  Virginians  of  the 

higher  classes. 

J.  L.  Hall, 
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PUBLICATIONS  RECEIVED. 


A  Memoir  of  John  Patten  Emmet,  M.  D.  Formerly  Professor  of 
Chemistry  and  Materia  Medica  in  the  l.'niversity  of  Virginia.  With  a 
Brief  Outline  of  the  Emmet  Family  History.  By  Thomas  Addis  Em- 
met, M.  D.,  LL.  D.  Privately  printed.  New  York,  1898.  Presented  by 
the  author. 

Besides  containing  a  very  interesting  and  carefully  prepared  sketch  of 
the  life  of  Dr.  [.  P.  Emmet,  this  handsome  book  contains  thirty  full 
page  portraits  of  members  of  the  Emmet  and  Tucker  families  (includ- 
ing those  of  the  celebrated  Robert  Emmet,  Dr.  John  P.  Emmet,  Dr. 
Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  Professor  George  Tucker  and  Judge  Henry  St. 
George  Tucker),  and  a  number  of  other  illustrations,  facsimiles,  &c., 
a  chart  pedigree  of  the  Emmets,  and  two  of  the  Tuckers. 

An  Accot'NT  OP  the  Ticker  Family  of  Bermtda.  F'rom  a  His- 
tory of  the  Emmet  Family.  By  Thomas  Addis  Emmet,  M.  D.,  LL.  D. 
New  York,  1898.     Presented  by  the  author. 

Dr.  Emmet  presents  the  result  of  a  very  thorough  investigation  as  to 
the  history  of  the  Tuckers,  of  Bermuda,  a  number  of  whose  members 
have  lived  and  gained  tame  in  the  United  States.  There  are  several 
chart  pedigrees  and  ten  portraits.  The  history  of  this  distinguished 
family  affords  material  for  a  larger  work  than  that  here  treated  of.  Dr. 
Emmet  has  made  no  attempt  at  giving  biographies  at  length,  but  in  his 
study  of  the  gefieahgy  of  the  family  he  has  probably  presented  all  that 
can  be  learned. 

Munsell's  American  Genealogies,  1897.     [A  reference-index.] 
History  of  the   Boston   Massacre.     By  Frederick   Kidder.     Albany, 
1870. 

The  Saratoga  Battle  Fields.     By  W.  L.  Stone.     Albany,  1895. 

The  Journal  of  Washington,  1754.  Edited  by  J.  M.  Toner,  M.  D. 
Albany,  1893. 

The  Ohio  Valley  in  Colonial  Days.  By  Berthold  Fernard.  Albany, 
1890. 

The  German  Allied  Troops  in  the  American  War  for  Independence. 
Translated  from  the  German  of  Ma.x  Von  Elking,  by  J.  G.  Rosengarten. 
Albany,  1893. 

The  Family  of  Early  in  America.  By  Samuel  S.  Early.  Albany, 
1896.     [This  treats  of  the  Virginia  family.] 

The  Battles  of  Saratoga.     By  Mrs.  Ella  A.  Wolworth.     Albany,  1891. 


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casion and  others. 

Pages  xix-386.  Contains  papers  on  the  Virginia  Committee  of  Correspondence  and  the 
Call  for  the  First  Congress;  Historical  Elements  in  Virginia  Education  and  Literary 
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Smithfield  Church,  built  in  163a,  Richmond's  First  Academy;  Facts  from  the  Accomac 
County  Records,  Relating  to  Bacon's  Rebellion  ;  Thomas  Hansford,  first  Martyr  to  Ameri- 
can Liberty ;  Journal  of  Captain  Charles  Lewis  in  Washington's  Expedition  against  the 
French  in  1755;  Orderly  Books  of  Major  Wra.  Heath,  1777,  and  Capt.  Robert  Gamble,  1779, 
and  Memoir  of  General  John  Cropper.  2.50 

The  full  set  of  these  publications  can  be  obtained  for  $3 1  .OO,  or  the  separate 
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Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography. 

The  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  Edited  to  October 
ist,  1898,  by  Philip  A.  Bruce,  and  since  that  date  by  William  G.  Stanard, 
Corresponding  Secretary  and  Librarian  of  the  Society,  (Seal).  Pub- 
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Volume  I — Octavo,  pp.  484-viii-xxvi-xxxii. 

Contains  cut  of  the  Society's  Building,  accounts  of  the  proceedings  and  transactions  of 
the  Society  for  the  year  1893,  and  many  exceedingly  valuable,  original  historical  documents 
and  papers  which  have  never  before  appeared  in  print.  Among  others  may  be  mentioned, 
Discourse  of  the  London  Company  on  its  administration  of  Virginia  affairs,  1607-1624; 
Abstracts  of  Colonial  Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virginia  Land  Office,  beginning  in  1624, 
with  full  genealogical  notes  and  an  extended  Genealogy  of  the  Claiborne  Family ;  The 
Mutiny  in  Virginia  in  1635;  Samuel  Matthew's  Letter  and  Sir  John  Harvey's  Declaration ; 
Speech  of  Governor  Berkeley  and  Declaration  of  the  Assembly  with  reference  to  the  change 
of  Government  in  England  and  the  passage  of  the  First  Navigation  Act  of  1651 ;  Petition 
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Bacon's  Rebellion,  1676;  His  three  proclamations.  Letters  of  Sherwood  and  Ludwell,  Pro- 
posals of  Smith  and  Ludwell,  and  Thomas  Bacon's  Petition  ;  Letters  of  William  Fitzhugh 
(1650-1701),  a  Leading  Lawyer  and  Planter  of  Virginia,  with  a  genealogical  account  of  the 
Fitzhughs  in  England  ;  Lists  of  Public  Officers  in  the  various  Counties  in  Virginia  late  in 
the  17th  and  early  in  the  i8th  centuries  ;  Roster  of  Soldiers  in  the  French  and  Indian  Wars 
under  Colonel  Washington ;  Officers,  Seamen  and  Marines  in  the  Virginia  Navy  of  the 
Revolution  ;  Roll  of  the  4th  Virginia  Regiment  in  the  Revolution  ;  Diary  of  Captain  John 
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Contains  a  full  account  of  the  proceedings  and  transactions  of  the  Society  for  the 
year  1894,  and  the  following  list  of  articles  copied  from  the  original  documents :  Report 
of  Govenior  and  Council  on  the  Condition  of  Affairs  in  Virginia  in  1626 ;  Abstracts  of  Col- 
onial Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virginia  Land  Office,  with  full  genealogical  notes  and 
extended  genealogies  of  the  Fleet,  Robins  and  Thoroughgood  Families ;  Reports  of  Griev- 
ances by  the  Counties  of  Virginia  af^er  the  suppression  of  Bacon's  Insurrection  ;  A  full  his- 
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Causes  of  Discontent  leading  to  the  Insurrection  of  1666  under  Bacon;  Will  of  Benjamin 
Harrison  the  Elder;  Culpeper's  Report  on  Virginia  in  1683 ;  Defense  of  Col.  Edward  Hill ; 
A  scries  of  Colonial  letters  written  by  William  Byrd,  Jr.,  Thomas  Ludwell,  Robert  Carter, 
Richard  Lee,  and  Sir  John  Randolph ;  Decisions  of  the  General  Court  of  Virginia,  i6a6- 
162S,  first  instalment ;  Indictment  of  Governor  Nicholson  by  the  leading  members  of  his 
Council;  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents,  extending  to  1635,  with  full  genealogical 
notes;  A  History  of  Robert  Beverley  and  his  Descendants,  with  interesting  Wills  and  new 
matter  obtained  from  Engl&nd  ;  Genealogies  of  the  Floumoy,  Cocke,  Carr,  Todd  and  Chap- 
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Volume  IV— Octavo,  pp  492-i-xxiii. 

Contains  the  following  general  list  of  Contents :  A  Marriage  Agreement  between  John 
Custis  and  his  wife  ;  A  Perswasive  to  Towns  and  Cohabitation  by  Rev,  Francis  Mackemie 
1705;  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents  for  1635-6;  Army  Supplies  in  the  Revolution. 
Series  of  original  letters  by  Judge  Innes;  Attacks  by  the  Dutch  on  Virginia  Fleet,  1667; 
Boundar>-  Line  Proceedings,  for  Virginia  and  North  Carolina  1710 ;  Charges  against  Spots- 
wood  by  House  of  Burgess  1719 ;  Council  Proceedings,  1716-1717;  Decisions  of  Virginia 
General  Court,  1626-38  Continued  ;  Defence  of  Colonel  Edward  Hill  Continued  Depositions 
of  Revolutionary  Soldiers  from  County  records ;  Early  Spotsylvania  Marriage  Licenses: 
Genealogy — Cocke,  Floumoy,  Trabue,  Jones,  and  Rootes  Families;  Historical  Notes  and 
Queries  ;  A  full  list  of  House  of  Burgesses,  1766  to  1775 ;  Instmctions  to  Govemor  Francis 
Nicholson  ;  Letter  and  Proclamation  of  Argall ;  Letters  of  William  Fitzhugh  ;  Narrative  of 
Bacon's  Rebellion  by  the  English  Commissioners ;  full  abstracts  of  Northampton  County 
.  Records  in  17th  Century ;  Ordeal  of  Touch  in  Colonial  Virginia;  Patent  of  Auditor  and 
Surveyor-General ;  Prince  George  County  Records  with  much  information  as  to  its  families ; 
Proceedings  of  Visitors  of  William  and  Mary  College,  1716;  A  list  of  Shareholders  in  Lon- 
don Company.  1783 ;  also  of  Slave  Owners  in  Spotsylvania  County,  1783  ;  Virginia  Tobacco 
in  Russia  in  17th  Century.    Volume  IV  has  a  full  index.  0.00 

Volume  V — Octavo,  pp.  472-i-xxiii. 

Contaiift  the  following  general  list  of  Contents:  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents, 
1636;  and  Patents  and  Grants,  1769;  Rappahannock  and  Isle  of  Wight  Wills,  17th  Century; 
Govemment  of  Virginia.  1666 ;  Bacon's  Men  in  Surry  ;  and  List  of  Persons  Suffering  by  the 
Rebellion;  Boundary  Line  Proceedings,  1710;  Carter  Papers;  Case  of  Anthony  Penton ; 
Colonial  and  Revolutionary  Letters,  Miscellaneous ;  Early  Episcopacy  in  Accomac  ;  Depo- 
sitions of  Continental  Soldiers;  Families  of  Lower  Norfolk  and  Princess  Anne  Counties; 
Genealogy  of  the  Cocke,  Godwin,  Waike,  Moseley,  Markham.  Carr,  Hughes,  Winston, 
Calvert,  Parker  and  Brockenbrough  Families;  General  Court  Decisions.  1640,  1641,  1666; 
Memoranda  Relating  to  the  House  of  Burgesses,  1685-91 ;  Joumal  of  John  Bamwell  in  Yam- 
massee  War ;  Letters  of  Lafayette  in  Yorklown  Campaign  ;  Letters  of  William  Fitzhugh  ; 
Letters  to  Thomas  Adams,  1769-71 ;  Public  Officers,  1781 ;  Northampton  County  Records, 
17th  Century;  List,  Oath  and  Duties  of  Viewers  of  Tobacco  Crop.  1639;  Petition  of  John 
Mercer  Respecting  Marboro  Town;  Price  Lists  and  Diary  of  Colonel  Fleming,  1788-98; 
Abstract  of  Title  to  Grecnspring ;  Tithables  of  Lancaster  County,  17th  Century;  The  Me- 
herrin  Indians;  The  Trial  of  Criminal  Cases  in  i8th  Centur>-.    Volume  V  has  a  full  index.      O.OO 


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such  as  may  throw  light  upon  the  political,  social  or  religious  life  of 
the  people  of  Virginia. 

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acter as  the  possessors  may  from  any  cause  be  un\^lling  to  give,  and 
in  the  case  of  family  papers  or  other  manuscripts  which  it  may  be 
undesirable  to  publish,  it  will,  upon  request,  keep  them  confidential. 

t&^A  large  ^re  proof  safe  has  been  secured  and  placed  in  the 
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carefully  preserved  by  the  Librarian. 

In  the  vicissitudes  of  war,  and  the  repeated  removals  to  which  the 
Society's  Library  has  been  subjected,  many  volumes  have  been  lost 
and  the  sets  broken.  Odd  volumes  from  the  collections  of  its  mem- 
bers and  well  wishers  will  therefore  be  gratefully  received. 

It  is  especially  desirable  to  secure  as  complete  a  collection  as  possi- 
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EDITOR  OF  THE  MACAZINfi, 

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CONTENTS. 

1.  The  Vigilance  Committee 225 

2.  Rerainiscenses  of  Western  Virginia,  1770-1790,  242 

3.  Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revolution 254 

4.  Virginia  in  1628 258 

5.  Sainsbury's  Abstracts '. 268 

6.  Papers  Relating  to  the  Administration  of  Gov. 

Nicholson  and  to  the  Founding  of  William 

and  Mary  College 275 

7.  John  Paul  Jones  as  a  Citizen  of  Virginia 286 

8.  The  Will  of  Charles  Lewis  of  the  Byrd,  1779...  294 

9.  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents 296 

10.  Books  in  Colonial  Virginia 299 

11.  Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  and  Queries,  303 

Punishment  of  a  Slave  for  Murder;  Captain  William 
Edmonds'  Company,  1761;  The  Virginia  Forces  sur- 
rendered at  Charleston  in  1780;  Clergy  Ordained  and 
Licensed  for  the  American  Colonies  from  1699  to  17 10, 
&c. 

12.  Genealogy 317 

Fitzhugh  ( illustrated ),  Farrar,  Booker,  Rodes,  Pryor, 
Coles  and  Yates  Families. 

13.  Book  Reviews 333 

14.  Publications  Received 335 


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LIST  OF  OFFICERS  AND  MEMBERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 


RICHMOND: 

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1899. 


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Annual  Meeting  held  December  30th,  i8gg. 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society  was 
held  in  the  Society's  House,  Saturday  evening,  December  30th, 
at  8:30  P.  M. 

Mr.  Joseph  Bryan,   President  of  the  Society,  presided,  and 

read 

THE  PRESIDENTS  ADDRESS. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society: 

The  Executive  Committee  of  your  Society  beg  to  submit  the 
following  as  their  annual  report  for  the  past  year: 

Membership. 

We  have  had  a  decided  addition  to  our  membership,  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-five  new  members  having  been  added,  which 
about  doubles  the  number  (sixty-eight)  of  members  who  have 
died,  resigned,  or  been  dropped  for  non-payment  of  dues.  The 
total  present  membership  is  seven  hundred  and  seventy -seven, 
the  greatest  number  we  have  ever  had,  and  a  net  gain  of  sixty- 
seven  over  last  year,  the  number  then  being  in  fact  seven  hun- 
dred and  ten,  not  seven  hundred  and  five  as  reported,  as  five 
were  accidentally  omitted  from  the  last  report. 

Finances. 

The  finances  of  the  Society  are  in  a  very  satisfactory  condi- 


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tion,  as  the  Treasurer's  report  for  the  year  ending  November  ii, 
1899,  will  show. 

Balance  in  bank  November  6,  1898 1 187  50 


Receipts. 


Dues 

Magazine 

Books . 

Life  Members. 

Interest 

Publications  . . .  • 
Advertisements . 


Expenditures. 


General  Expenses. 

Repairs 

Janitor 

Salaries 

Printing 

Insurance 

Postage 

Permanent  Fund . . 
Publication  Fund. . 


fo,342  12 
35.^  46 
131  97 
100  00 
71  00 
6835 
122  75 


279  50 

73  00 

240  00 

1,469  40 

1,079  75 

50  00 

103  75 

400  00 

200  00 


Balance  in  bank  November  11,  1899 


4.189  65 
$4*377  15 


3.895  40 
$481  75 


As  will  be  seen,  we  have  in  bank  $481.75  as  against  $187.50 
last  year,  and  besides  have  added  $400  to  the  permanent  fund, 
and  $200  to  the  publication  fund.  The  permanent  fund  now 
consists  of  $2,700  on  deposit  in  the  State  Bank  o(  Virginia,  and 
$100  Virginia  State  3  per  cent,  bonds. 

Additions  to  the  Library. 

Of  books  and  pamphlets,  425  were  added  to  the  library  since 
our  last  report.     Manuscripts  added  were: 

1.  Correspondence  in  several  duels  in  Virginia,  1 855-* 58. 

2.  Documents  relating  to  politics  in  Richmond,  1855. 


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3.  The  original  grant  signed  by  Governor  Gooch  in  1736,  of 
Beverley  Manor,  Augusta  county,  Va. 

4.  Letters,  &c. ,  relating  to  the  early  history  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia. 

5.  Original  plot  and  survey  by  George  Washington,  1751. 

6.  Deeds,  &c.,  to  Herman  Blennerhassett,  for  an  island  in 
the  Ohio. 

7.  Copy  of  a  letter-book  of  Ralph  Wormeley,  Jr.,  of  **  Rose- 
gill,**  Middlesex  county,  Va. 

8.  A  large  collection  of  papers  relating  to  the  Corbin  family 
of  Virginia,  letters,  &c.,  lent  by  Mrs.  Diana  Fontaine  Maury 
Corbin. 

9.  Letter  Book,  1793-95,  o^  K^v*  Stith  Mead,  an  early  Vir- 
ginia Methodist  minister,  given  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Whitty. 

ID.  Commission  of  Nicholas  Fitzhugh  as  judge,  and  various 
Fitzhugh  wills,  &c.,  given  by  Mrs.  McGuire. 

The  following  portraits  and  relics  have  been  either  given  or 
lent  the  society : 

1.  Portrait  in  oil  of  William  Maxwell,  formerly  president  of 
this  Society,  given  by  Captain  Harrison  Robertson,  Charlottes- 
ville, Va. 

2.  Framed  photograph  of  Hon.  Hugh  Blair  Grigsby,  given  by 
same  gentleman. 

3.  Portrait  in  oil  of  Mrs.  Helen  Maxwell  Read  (mother  of 
Hon.  William  Maxwell),  a  legacy  from  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Maxwell. 

4.  Deadlight  from  Spanish  Cruiser  Infanta  Maria  Theresa, 
taken  out  of  her  at  Cat  Island  by  Lieutenant  W.  W.  Gilmer, 
U.  S.  N.,  and  presented  by  him  to  this  Society. 

5.  Plan  of  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  by  John  F.  Renault  (loan). 

6.  Oil  painting,  **  Scene  from  Macbeth,**  by  Sully  (loan). 

7.  Mezzotint  engravings  of  Joseph  Johnson,  Governor  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  J.  L.  Orr,  of  South  Carolina. 

8.  A  pair  of  jackboots,  formerly  the  property  of  Thomas, 
I^rd  Fairfax,  of  Greenway  county,  a  legacy  from  Governor 
F.  W.  M.  Holliday. 


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9.  Oil  original  portrait  of  Hon.  Thomas  Lee,  of  Stratford, 
Governor  of  Virginia;  his  wife,  Mrs.  Hannah  Ludwell  Lee,  and 
Richard  Henry  Lee,  lent  by  Mr.  Lawrence  Rust  Lee. 

10.  The  portrait  of  John  Dandridge,  father  of  Mrs.  Wash- 
ington, which  was  bought  some  time  ago,  has  been  successfully 
restored  and  now  hangs  in  the  rooms  of  the  Society. 

11.  A  valuable  collection  of  newspapers,  the  Dispatch^  En- 
quirer, Sentinel,  and  The  South,  186 1-^65,  given  by  Mrs.  G.  B. 
Davenport. 

12.  A  collection  of  paper  fractional  currency  issued  by  Rich- 
mond banks  during  the  panic  of  1837,  given  by  Mrs.  Branch,  of 
St.  Louis. 

13.  Photographs  of  portraits  of  Colonel  William  Clendenin 
and  Mrs.  Christian  Miller,  given  by  Mr.  J.  L.  Miller. 

14.  A  number  of  photographs  and  paintings  of  coats  of  arms 
of  Virginia  families. 

15.  An  old  plan  of  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  by  Sebastian  Bau- 
man. 

16.  The  second  copy  known  to  exist  (the  other  being  the 
property  of  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society)  of  the  very 
rare  collection  of  prayers,  etc.,  by  Bishop  Gibson,  of  London, 
printed  at  Williamsburg  in  1740,  presented  by  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Tyler  and  others,  who  are  descendants  of  Mrs.  Mary  (Johnson) 
Anderson,  wife  of  Colonel  Richard  Anderson,  of  Louisa  county, 
Virginia,  and  daughter  of  Nicholas  Johnson  of  that  county,  who 
appears  to  have  been  the  first  owner  of  the  volume. 

17.  A  large  framed  photograph  of  a  portrait  of  General  Robert 
Porterfield,  presented  by  Mrs.  Virginius  Hall. 

The  Society  desires  to  make  its  grateful  acknowledgements  to 
the  following  persons  for  gifts  included  in  the  books,  pamphlets, 
manuscripts,  pictures,  and  relics  which  have  been  mentioned  : 

Mr.  Henry  S.  Hutzler,  Captain  Harrison  Robertson,  Mrs.  Mary 
F.  Maxwell,  Rev.  J.  William  Jones,  D.  D.,  Lieutenant  W.  W. 
Gilmer,  U.  S.  N. ,  Mr.  Henry  Lee  Meyers,  Mr.  Thomas  Willing 
Balch,  Rev.  Daniel  Blain,  Miss  Mary  A.  Nicholson,  Mrs.  G.  T. 


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Williams,  Mr.  William  W.  Tooker,  Mr.  Howard  R.  Bayne,  Mrs. 
Norman  Stewart  Walker,  Mrs.  Diana  Fontaine  Maury  Corbin. 
Mr.  Robert  B.  Munford.  Dr.  B.  W.  Green.  Mr.  G.  D.  Dicker- 
man.  Mr.  J.  H.  Whitty,  Dr.  W.  Seward  Webb,  Dr.  Thomas  A. 
Emmet.  Mrs.  Barton  H.  Wise,  Mr.  E.  W.  James,  Hon.  J.  L.  M. 
Curry,  Mr.  Robert  Lee  Traylor,  Mr.  Douglas  H.  Thomas.  Mrs. 
G.  B.  Davenport,  the  Executors  of  Governor  F.  W.  M.  Holli- 
day,  Mr.  A.  I.  Salley,  Jr..  Colonel  R.  L.  Durrett.  Dr.  C.  J. 
Cleborne,  U.  S.  N.,  Mrs.  Virginius  Hall,  Mr.  Lawrence  R.  Lee, 
and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Tyler. 

Annual  Address. 

We  have  again  to  suffer  a  disappointment  in  our  annual  address, 
which  was  to  have  been  delivered  by  the  Honorable  William  L. 
Wilson,  who  had  chosen  as  his  subject  the  part  that  Virginia 
had  in  the  acquisition  of  the  great  Northwest  Territory,  and  who 
had  made  much  progress  in  the  preparation  of  his  address  on 
this  interesting  subject,  when  by  ill  health  he  was  compelled  to 
abandon  his  purpose  to  our  great  regret  and  loss.  No  other 
substitute  for  Mr.  Wilson  has  yet  been  secured,  as  it  was  only 
recently  that  we  learned  that  he  would  be  unable  to  deliver  the 
address. 

Publication  Committee. 

The  Publication  Committee  report  that  the  first  draft  of  the 
Catalogue  of  the  Manuscripts  in  the  possession  of  the  Society, 
on  which  the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Assistant  Librarian 
have  been  at  work  for  some  months  past,  has  been  completed, 
and  as  soon  as  it  can  be  checked  for  accuracy  of  reference,  and 
carefully  revised,  will  be  ready  for  publication. 

The  preparation  of  this  catalogue  has  shown  that  we  possess  a 
wealth  of  historic  manuscripts,  which  has  surprised  even  those 
who  thought  that  they  were  familiar  with  our  collection.  As  an 
example,  there  were  printed  in  the  October  Magazine  from  our 
collection,  ten  interesting  and  valuable  letters  of  Washington, 
never  before  published. 


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The  scheme  of  publications  reported  by  the  Committee  last 
year,  and  which  was  to  extend  over  several  years,  will  be  ad- 
hered to. 

Deaths. 

The  Society  was  called  upon  to  record  the  death  of  some  of 
its  distinguished  members.  Ex-Governor  F.  W.  M.  Hollidav, 
who  was  a  life  member,  and  the  following  annual  members: 

Mrs.  J.  B.  Baylor,  Clarkton,  Va. 
Mrs.  A.  E.  Bradford,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Miss  M.  Dora  Hoffman,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Prof  George  F.  Merrill,  Richmond,  Va. 
Prof  John  H.  Powell,  Richmond,  Va. 
Mr.  John  C.  Ropes,  Boston,  Mass. 
Hon.  T.  J.  Semmes,  New  Orleans,  La. 
Mr.  Leonard  Thompson,  Woburn,  Mass. 
Mr.  Lawrence  Turnure,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

The  improved  condition  of  the  Society  is  a  just  cause  of  satis- 
faction to  all  its  members. 

Our  financial  statement  is  gratifying,  and  the  number  of  gifts 
which  we  are  constantly  receiving  indicates  the  interest  which  is 
taken  in  our  work. 

The  results  of  his  first  year's  labors  amply  justifies  the  wisdom 
of  the  Society  in  the  choice  of  its  Corresponding  Secretary. 

Jos.  Bryan,  President, 

December  so y  i8gg. 

The  report  was,  on  motion,  received,  ordered  to  be  filed,  and, 
as  usual,  printed  in  the  Magazine. 

Election  of  Officers. 

The  next  business  was  the  election  of  ofllicers  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and,  on  motion,  the  chairman  was  directed  to  appoint  a 
committee  of  three  to  present  nominations. 

The  committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Brent,  Merrick  and  Mer- 
edith, reported  the  following  names. 


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President — ^Joseph  Bryan. 

Vice-Presidents—].  L.  M.  Curry,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Archer 
Anderson,  and  Virginius  Newton,  Richmond,  Va. 

Correspondijig  Secretary  and  Librarian — William  G.  Stanard, 
Richmond,  Va. 
Recording  Secretary — R.  L.  Traylor,  Richmond,  Va. 
Treasurer — Robert  T.  Brooke,  Richmond,  Va. 

Executive  Committee — Lyon  G.  Tyler,  Williamsburg,  Va. ;  E. 
V.  Valentine,  C.  V.  Meredith,  W.  Meade  Clark,  B.  B.  Mun- 
ford,  R.  H.  Gaines,  W.  H.  Palmer,  D.  C.  Richardson,  Rich- 
mond, Va. ;  E.  W.  James,  Norfolk,  Va. ;  Charles  W.  Kent, 
University  of  Virginia ;  E.  C.  Venable,  Petersburg,  Va. ;  Armis- 
tead  C.  Gordon,  Staunton,  Va. 

The  gentlemen  nominated  were  unanimously  elected. 

Then,  on  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned. 


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OFFICERS  AND  MEMBERS 


OF  THE 

Virginia  Historical  Society, 

JANUARY.  IGOO. 

President, 
Joseph  Bryan,  Richmond,  Virginia. 

Vice-Presidents. 

J.  L.  M.  Curry,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Archer  Anderson,  Richmond,  Va. 
ViRGiNius  Newton,  Richmond,  Va. 

Corresponding  Secretary  and  Librarian. 
William  G.  Stanard,  Richmond,  Va. 

Recording  Secretary. 
Robert  L.  Traylor,  Richmond,  Va. 

Treasurer. 
Robert  T.  Brooke,  Richmond,  Va. 

Executive  Committee. 

Lyon  G.  Tyler,  Williamsburg,  Va.  R.  H.  Gaines,  Richmond,  Va. 

E.  V.  Valentine,  Richmond,  Va.  Wm.  H.  Palmer,  Richmond,  Va. 

C.  V.  Meredith,  Richmond,  Va.  Edward  W.  James,  Norfolk,  Va. 

W.  Meade  Clark,  Richmond,  Va.  D. C.  Richardson,  Richmond, Va. 

A.  C.  Gordon,  Staunton,  Va.  Chas.  W.  Kent,  University  of  Va. 

B.  B.  MuNFORD,  Richmond,  Va.  E.  C.  Venable,  Petersburg,  Va. 

andy  eX'OfficiOy  the  President^  Vice-Presidents,  Secretaries^ 
and  Treasurer. 


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HONORARY  MEMBERS. 

Arber,  Prof.  Edward,  Binnin£bain,  EnR*  Keane.  Prof.  A.  H.,  London,  England. 

land.  Spoffard,  Hon.  A.  K..  Washington.  D.  C. 

Brovrn,  Alexander,  Norwood,  Va.  Stewart.  Mrs.  John,  Brook  Hill,  Va. 

Gilbert,  Hon.  J.  W  ,  New  York.  N.  Y.  Whitsitt.  Rev.  W.  H.,  D.  D.,  Louisville, 

Joaes.  Rev.  John  Wm.,  D.D..  Richmond.Va.  Kentucky. 


CORRESPONDING  MEMBERS. 


Adams,  F  G..  Topeka,  Kansas. 
Atrill,  Chas.  H.,  London,  Eng'd. 
Bacon,  H.  F  ,  Bury  St.  Edmund,  Eng'd. 
Banks,  Chas.  b...  M.  D.,  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Barber,  E.  A.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Br>'ant.  U.  W.,  Portland,  Maine. 
Campeau,  Hon.,  F.  R.  E.,  Ottawa,  Canada. 
Carrington,  Gen.  H.  B.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Champlin,  J.  D..  Jr.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Craig,  Isaac,  Alleghany,  Pa. 
Dean,  John  Ward.  Boston,  Mass. 
Darling.  Gen.  C.  W.  Utica,  N  Y. 
Drake,  Col.  S.  A..  Kennebunkport,  Me. 
Eglc,  Wm.  H.,  M.  D..  Harrisburg.  Pa. 
Femow,  Berthold,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Graham.  A.  A.,  Columbus.  O. 


Green,  Hon.  S.  A..  M.  D.,  Boston.  Mas.s. 
Hart,  Chas.  H.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Hayden,  Rev.  H.  E.,  Wilkes- Barre,  Pa. 
Hinsdale,  Prof.  B.  A.,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
Hoadly,  Hon.  C.  J..  Hartford,  Conn. 
Hoes,  Rev.  R.  R..  Washington.  D.  C. 
Judah,  George  F.,  Spanish  Town,  Jamaica. 
Lee.  J.  W.  M.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Nicholson,  Col.  J.  P..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Perry,  Hon.  Amos,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Peyster.  Gen.  J.  Watts  de,  New  York,  N  Y 
Phillimore,.W.  P.  W  ,  London.  Eng'd. 
Rose,  Josiah,  London,  England. 
Ross.  Hon.  D.  A..  Quebec,  Canada. 
Thwing.  E.  P.,  Brooklyn.  N.  Y. 
Wright,  W.  H.  K.,  Plymouth.  England. 


Mons.  Meschinet  De  Richemond,  La  Rochelle,  France. 


LIFE  MEMBERS. 


Adams.  Wm.  Newton,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Alexander,  H   M.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Andrews.  O  ,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Bain.  George  M.  Jr.,  Portsmouth,  Va. 
Barksdale.  George  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Barkfdale.  R.,  M.  D..  Petersburg,  Va. 
Beverley,  Col.  R..  The  Plains.  Va. 
Bryan.  Joseph,  Richmond,  Va. 
Byrd,  George  H..  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Cabell.  J.  Alston.  Richmond,  Va. 
Childers,  Col.  Gracey.  Clarksville,  Tenn. 
Conway,  M   D.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Clements,  Mrs.  Helen  I  ,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Cleburne,  C.  J.,   M.  D.,  United   States 

Navy. 
Cottrell,  James  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Deats,  H.  E.,  Flemington.  N.J. 
Gary,  J.  A.,  Baltimore,  .Md. 
Gibbs.  Mrs.  Virginia  B.,   New    York, 

N.Y. 
Grafflin.  John  C,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Grandy,  C.  Wiley.  Norfolk.  Va. 
Gratz,  Simon  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Grigsby,  H.  C,  Smithville.  Va. 
Hassam,  John  T-,  Boston,  Mass. 
Hearst,  Mrs.  Phoebe  A.,  Alameda,  Cal. 


Hughes,  R.  M.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Hutchinson.  Charles  Hare.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Ingalls,  M.  E.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Jones,  Wm.  Ellis,  Richmond,  Va. 
Keith,  Charles  P..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Langhorne,  J.  C,  Salem,  Va. 
Lee,  Edmund,  J.,  M   D..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Lee,  General  G.  W.  C,  Burks.  Va. 
Leigh,  C.  J.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Leiter,  L.  Z.,  Chicago.  III. 
Logan,  General  T.  M.,  Howardsville,  Va. 
Low,  Hon.  Seth,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Mallory,  Hon.  E.  S.,  Jackson,  Tenn. 
Minor,  B.  B.,  Richmond.  Va. 
McCormick,  Cyrus  Hall,  Chicago,  III. 
Price,  Prof.  Thos.  R..  Columbia  Col.,  N.  Y. 
Richardson.  D.  C.  Richmond,  Va. 
Richeson,  Col.  Thomas.  St.  Louis.  Mo. 
Rives,  Arthur  L  ,  Newport,  R.  I. 
Rives,  Hon.  Geo.  Lockhart.  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Sheppard,  Wm.  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Stubbs,  Wm.  C,  New  Orleans,  La. 
Talcolt,  Col.  T.  M.  R.,  Bon  Air,  Va. 
Traylor,  R.  L.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Van  de  Vyver,  Rt.  Rev.  A.,  D.  D.,  Rich- 
mond, Va. 


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Walker,  Major  D.  N.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Waterman,  W.  H..  New  Bedford,  Mass. 
Whitehead,  J.  B..  Norfolk,  Va. 
Wickham,  Henry  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 


Williams,  A.  D..  Richmond.  Va. 
Williams,  Thomas  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Winthrop.  Robert  C,  Jr  ,  Boston,  Massachu* 
setts. 


ANNUAL  MEMBERS.^ 


Adams,  Mrs.  Anna  M.,  Mtddleburg,  Va. 
Adams,  Walter,  FrammRham,  Mass. 
Adams,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  Corinth,  Miss. 
Addison.  E.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Addison.  John,  Richmond,  Va. 
Adkins,  S.  B.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Alexander,  L.  D.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Alfriend,  Thomas  L..  Richmond,  Va. 
Alger,  General  Russell  A  .  Detroit.  Mich. 
American  Book  Co.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Anderson,  Colonel  Archer.  Richmond.  Va. 
Anderson,  B.  R..  M.  D.,  Colorado  Springs, 

Col. 
Anderson,  Davis  C,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Anderson,  Gen.  Charles  J..  Richmond,  Va. 
Anderson,  Edward  L  ,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Anderson,  Mrs.  F.  W.,  Greenville,  Miss. 
Anderson,  Henry  W  ,  Richmond,  Va. 
Anderson,  W.  A.,  Lexington,  Va. 
Atchison,  Dr.  Clifton  R.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Aston,  A.  W  ,  University  of  Va. 
Atkinson,  J.  B.,  Earlington.  Ky. 
Atkinson,  Thomas,  Richmond,  Va. 
Axtell,  Decatur,  Richmond.  Va. 

Bagby,  Mrs.  Parke  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Baker.  Colonel  R.  H..  Norfolk,  Va. 
Ballou,  Hosca  Starr,  Brookline.  Mass. 
Banta,  Theodore  M..  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Barret.  Richard  A.,  St.  Louis.  Mo. 
Barton,  R.  T  ,  VVinchesler,  Va. 
Baskervill,  H.  E.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Bates,  Wm.  O  ,  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 
Battle.  Prof.  K.  P.,  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 
Baylor,  Col.  George,  Charlestown,  W.  Va. 
Bayne.  Howard  R  ,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Beale.  Mrs.  Chas.  Willing,  Arden,  N.  C. 
Beall,  Mrs.  H.  A..  Parkesburg,  Pa. 
Berryman,  Mrs.  Charlotte,  St.  John,  N.  B. 
Best.  Frank  E.,  Chicago,  111. 
Beckner,  Mrs.  Betsy  T..  Winchester,  Ky. 
Bien,  Joseph  R.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Bishop,  Mrs.  J.  L.,SeIma,  Ala. 
Bidgood,  Col.  J.  v.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Blackford,  Prof  L.  M.,  Alexandria,  Va. 
Blackford,  Capt.  Chas.  M..  Lynchburg,  Va 
Blackstock,  Ira  B.,  Springfield,  HI. 
Blackwell,  Henry,  New  York. 


Blow,  Lieut.  George  P.,  U.  S.  N.,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

Bohanuon,  Dr.  Thomas.  Louisville,  Ky. 

Boisseau.  P.  H.,  Danville,  Va. 

Boiling,  Stanhope,  Richmond,  Va. 

Bosher,  Major  Robert  S.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Boykin,  Colonel  F.  M.,  Richmond,  \  a. 

Branch.  Major  John  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Brent,  Frank  P.,  Accomac  county,  Va. 

Bri<lges,  W.  M..  Richmond,  Va. 

Broadhead.  Prof.  G.  C,  Columbia,  Mo. 

Brodhead,  Lucas,  Spring  Station,  Ky. 

Brockett,  Mrs.  Albert  D..  Alexandria,  Va. 

Brodnax.  Mrs.  N.  L.,  New  York. 

Brooke,  Robert  T  ,  Richmond,  Va. 

Broun.  Major  T.  L.,  Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Brown,  Hon.  Jas.  H.,  Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Brown,  J.  Thompson,  Brierfield,  Va. 

Brown,  Prof.  W.  G.,  Columbia,  Mo. 

Bruce,  Horatio  W.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Bruce,  Philip  Alexander,  London,  Eng. 

Bryan,  Mrs.  Joseph,  Richmond,  Va. 

Bryan,  J.  Stewart,  Richmond.  Va. 

Buckley,  Cornelius,  Beloit,  Wis. 

Buck,J.H,  New  York. 

Buckner,  Mrs.  S.  B.,  Rio,  Ky. 

Bufiington,  Colonel  A.  R.,  U.  S.  A  ,  Wash- 
ington, D  C. 

Buford,  Commander  M.  B.,  Boston.  Mass. 

Bullitt.  T.  W.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Bullitt,  W.  C,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Burgis.  Richard  F.,  El  Paso,  Texas. 

Burruss.  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Norfolk,  Va. 

Butler,  Edward  G  ,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Caine.  Paul,  Louisville,  Ky. 
California  S.  R.,  Los  Angeles.  Cal. 
Callahan,  G.  C,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Cameron,  Alexander,  Richmond,  Va. 
Campbell.  Chapt.  D.  A.  R.,  Nashville.Tenn. 
Campbell,  Mrs.  Elma,  Port  Byron,  N.  Y. 
Cannon,  G.  Randolph,  Richmond,  Va. 
Carlisle,  Calderon,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Cariie,  Rev.  R.  L.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Carpenter,  R.  Franklin,  Deadwood,  South 

Dakota. 
Carter,  John  Ridgeley,  American  Embassy, 

London. 


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Carter,  Hon  Bernard,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Gary,  W.  M..  Baltimore.  Md. 
Casey,  Prof.  Joseph  J.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Caskie,  James,  Richmond,  Va. 
Catlin,  E.  A.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Chalmers,  J.  F.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Chappell,  Philip  E.,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Chauncy,  Mrs.  Agnes,  Narberth.  Pa. 
Christian,  Frank  W  ,  Richmond,  Va. 
Christian,  Judge  Geo.  L.,  |ltchmond,  Va. 
Christian,  Walter,  Richmond,  Va. 
Claiborne,  Herbert  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Clark,  Clarence  H  ,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Clark,  F.  B  ,  Ottumwa,  Iowa. 
Clark,  M  H..  Clarksville,  Tenn. 
Clark,  Rev.  W.  M.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Clarke,  Arthur  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Clarke,  P.  N.,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Clement,  Lieutenant  Henr>',  U.  S.  A. 
Clyde,  W.  P.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Cocke,  James  B. ,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Cocke,  Dr.  W  Irby,  Port  Washington,  N.  Y. 
Coe  Brothers,  Springfield,  111. 
Cdce,  Captain  John  A.,  R.chmond,  Va. 
Coke,  Mrs.  J.  Gatbrie,  RusaellviUe,  Ky. 
Cognets,  Mrs.  A.  R.,  des,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Coleman,  Charles  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Coles,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Colston,  F.  M..  Baltimore,  Md. 
Colston,  Edward,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Coolidge,  Archibald  C  ,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Conrad,  Major  Holmes,  Winchester,  Va. 
Constant,  S.  V.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Cooke,  George  E.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Cooke.  Dr.  G.  Wythe,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Coming,  John  Herbert, Washington,  D.  C. 
Coutant,  Dr.  R.  S  ,  Tarrylown,  N.  Y. 
Cox,  Mrs.  L.  B..  Chicago,  111 
Crenshaw,  M.  Millson,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Crenshaw,  S.  Dabney,  Richmond,  Va. 
Crocker,  Major  J.  F.,  Portsmouth",  Va. 
Cropper.  John.  Washington.  D.  C. 
Crozer,  Wm.  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Crump,  Beverly  T.,  Richmond.  Va, 
Crump.  Edward  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Cullingworth,  J.  N..  Richmond,  Va. 
CuUingworth,  W.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Cunningham.  R.  H.,  Henderson,  Ky. 
Curry.  Hon.  J.  L.  M..  Washington,  D.  C. 
Cussons,  Captain  John,  Glen  Allen,  Va. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  H.  W.,  Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Cutshaw,  Colonel  W.  E.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Dabney,  Prof.  R.  H..  University  of  Va.    . 
Dale,  Chalmers,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Dandridge.  Miss  Mary  E.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Danforth,  Elliott,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


Daniel,  J.R.  V.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Dameal,  Mrs.  Lulie  L.,  Alameda,  Cal. 
Daugherty,  Wm.  G.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Daughters,  A.  R.,  Auburn,  Ala. 
Daughters,  A.  R.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Davenport.  G.  A  ,  Richmond.  Va. 
Davie,  Pascal,  Richmond,  Va. 
Davies.  S  D.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Davies,  W.  G.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Davis.  Hon.  J.  C.  B..  Washington,  D.  C. 
Denham,  Edward.  New  Bedford,  Mass 
Dibrell,  Dr.  J.  A.,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 
Dickerman,  G.  S.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Dickinson.  Colonel  A.  G.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Dimmock,  Capt.  M.  J.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Dismukes,  P.  P.,  Columbus,  Ga. 
Donally,  Mrs.  Miriam  W.,  Charleston,  W.Va. 
Doran,  J.  J  ,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Doremus.  Mrs.  C.  A..  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Doyle,  John  A.,  Pendarre.i,Crickhowell,Eng. 
Drewry,  Clay,  Richmond,  Va. 
Dudley,  Rt.  Rev  Thomas  U.,  D.  D.,  Louis- 
ville, Ky. 
Duke.  Judge  R.T.W.Jr,  Charlottesville.  Va. 
Dunn«  John,  M.  D.,  kiphmoad,  Va. 
Ditpont,  Hon.  H.  A.,  Wilmington,  Del. 
Durrett,  Colonel  R.  T  ,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Earle,  Mrs.  Alice  Morse,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Easley,  Jno.  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Eaton,  George  G.,  Washington.  D.  C. 
Edmonds,  RichM  H.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Edwards,  G.  F..  Portsmouth.  Va. 
Egle,  Dr.  W.  H.,  Ilarrisburg,  Pa. 
Eggleston,  Edward,  Lake  George.  N   V. 
Elkins.  Hon.  S.  B.,  Elkins,  W.  Va. 
Ellinger.  William.  Crisfield.  Md. 
Ellis,  Powhatan,  Richmond,  Va. 
Ely,  Mrs.  Jno.  H.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Ell>'Son,  Hon.  J.  Taylor,  Richmond,  Vn. 
English,  Mrs.  W.  E.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Eppes,  Miss  Emily  H.,  Ciiy  Point.  Va. 

Fairfax,  Lindsay,  New  York. 
Fallis,  Miss  Amanda  A.,  Danville,  Ky. 
Farragut,  Loyall,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Farrar,  B.  J.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Farrar,  Mrs.  I.  J.  M..  St.  Louis.  Mo. 
Farrar,  J.  B..  Richmond.  Va. 
Ficklen,  Carter  B.,  Gibara,  Cuba. 
Fiske,  Prof  John,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Fitzgerald,  W.  H..  Richmond,  Va. 
Fitzhugh.  Gen.  Chas.  L.,  Alleghany,  Pa. 
Fitzhugh,  Frank,  Galveston,  Texas. 
Fitz  Hugh,  Dr.  J.  A.,  Amesbury,  Mass. 
Fleet,  Prof.  A.  F.,  Culver  Academy,  Mar- 
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Fleming.  Colonel  R.  J.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Folsom.  A.  A.,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Foote.  W.  W..  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Fones,  Mrs.  James  A.,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Force,  General  M.  F.,  Sandusky,  Ohio. 

Ford,  Worthington  C,  Boston.  Mass. 

Forrest,  Rev.  D.  F.,  D.  D.,  Coronado 
Beach,  Cal. 

Fort,  Lewis,  Albuquerque,  N.  M. 

Fountain,  Captain  S.  W.,  U.  S.  A.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Fox,  W.  F  ,  Richmond.  Va. 

Fowler,  F.  Mackenzie.  Harlow,  England. 

Franklin,  James.  Jr  .  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Freeman,  Miss  Rosa,  Austin,  Texas. 

Fulton.  J.  H.,  Wytheville,  Vh. 

Gaines,  C.  Carrington,  Poughkeepsie,  N.V. 
Gaines.  R.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Gantt.  Judge  J.  B..  Jefferson  City.  Mo. 
Garland,  J.  A.,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Garland,  Spolswood,  Wilmington,  Del. 
Garrett,  Mrs.  Robert,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Garrett,  Prof.  Wm.  R.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Gentr>-,  Richard,  Kansas  City.  Mo. 
George,  Major  J.  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Gibson,  Geo.  Rutledge,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Gibson,  Rt.  Rev.  Robt.  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Gilman,  Mrs.  Winthrop  S.,  New  York. 
Glenn,  Garrard.  Atlanta,  Ga. 
Gooch,  D.  L.,  Covington,  Ky. 
Gooch.  G.  P.,  London,  England. 
Goode,  Hon.  John,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Gordon,  Armstead  C,  Staunton,  Va. 
Gordon,  Heningham,  Baltimore,  vd. 
Gordon,  Mrs.  W.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Graham,  Mrs.  Samuel  G.,  Tazewell,  Va. 
Grant,  Mrs.  Nanny  G  ,  Denver,  Col. 
Gray,  W.  F.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Great  Bridge  Chapter  D.  A.  R.,  Norfolk, 

Va. 
Green,  B.  W..  M.  D.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Green,  Thomas  Marshall.  Danville,  Ky. 
Green,  Mrs.  Lucy  J.,  Columbia,  S.  C. 
Green,  W.  H.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Greenway.  G.C.,  M.  D.,  Hot  Springs,  Ark. 
Gregory,  Hon.  Roger,  Richmond,  Va. 
Grinnan,  Daniel,  Richmond,  Va. 
Guillardeu,  W.  L.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Gummey,  Charles  F.,  Jr., Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Gunnell.  Mrs.  Allen  T.,  Colorado  Springs. 
Guy,  Jackson,  Richmond,  Va. 

Hagan,  John  C  ,  Richmond,  Va. 
Hnll,  Charles  H.,  M.  D  .  Macon,  Ga. 
Hall,  David  M.,  Riclimond,  Va. 


Hall,  Major  P.  P.  G..  U.  S.  A.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Hamilton.  S.  M.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Hanger,  Mrs.  Frederick,  Little  Rock.  Ark. 

Hardaway.  Prof.  Robert  A  ,  University  ol 
Alabama,  Ala. 

Harris,  Abner,  Louisville.  Ky. 

Harris.  John  T..  Jr..  Harrisonburg,  Va. 

Harrison,  Hon.  Benj.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Harrison,  Col.  Burton  N.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Harrison,  Geo.  T..  M.  D  ,  New  York.  N.  Y. 

Harrison.  Robert  L..  New  York.  N.  Y. 

Harrison,  W.  Preston,  Chicago,  III. 

Haskins,  C.  W.,  New  York. 

Harvie,  Miss  Anne  F.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Hauser,  Mrs.  S.  T.,  Helena,  Montana. 

Hawes,  S.  H.,  Richmond.  Va. 

Heffellinger.  Jacob,  Hampton,  Va. 

Henley,  Mrs.  Charles  F.,  Mountainville. 
Tenn. 

Henry,  Hon.  W.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Herbert,  Colonel  A  ,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Herndon,  J.  W.,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Hill.  W.  M..  Richmond.  Va. 

Hoar.  Hon.  George  F..  Worcester.  Mass. 

Hobson.  Henry  W..  Jr..  Denver,  Col. 

Hoen,  E.  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Hoffman.  Richard  Curzon.  Baltimore,  Md. 

Hollenberg.  Mrs.  H.  G.,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Holliday,  Mrs.  Lucy  R.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Hood,  Hon.  Calvin.  Emporia.  Kansas. 

Hord,  Rev.  Arnold  H..  Holmesburg.  Pa. 

Hord,  William  T.,  U.  S.  N  ,  Washington. 
D.C. 

Hoss,  Rev.  E.  E.,  D.  D..  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Houston,  Prof.  David  F.,  University  ol 
Texas,  Austin,  Texas. 

Howard,  Major  McH..  Baltimore,  Md. 

Howard,  Mrs.  S.  F.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Howell,  M.  B.  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Hudson,  John  E..  Boston,  Mass. 

Hughart,  W.  O.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Haghes,  Charles  J.,  Jr.,  Denver,  Col. 

Hughes,  A.  S..  Denver,  Col. 

Hume,  Frank,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Hunnewell.  J.  F.,  Charlestown.  Mass. 

Hunt,  Gaillard,  Washington.  D.  C. 

Hunter,  James  W..  Norfolk,  Va. 

Hunter,  Major  John.  Jr.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Hunter,  Mrs  Robert  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Hurt.  George  A.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Hutcheson,  Mrs.  J.  C,  Houston,  Texas. 

Hutzler,  H.  S.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Illinois  Society  S.  A.  R..  Chicago,  111. 
Ingle,  Edward,  Baltimore.  Md. 


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James,  Edward  W..  Norfolk,  Va. 
Jeffress,  T  *F  ,  Richmond.  Va. 
Jenkins,  Edward  A  ,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Jenkins,  Luther  R..  Richmond.  Va. 
Jenks.  Rev.  Henry  F..  Canton,  Mass. 
Johnson,  B.  F.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Johnson,  Jemima,  Chapter,  D.  A.  R.,  Paris, 

Ky. 
Johnson.  Mrs.  J.  H  .  Talladeg^a.  Ala. 
Johnson,  Capt.  Wm.  R..  Crescent.  W.  Va. 
Johnston,  Christopher,  M.  D.,  Baltimore, 

Md. 
Johnston,  Miss  Mary,  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Joline,  Adrian  H..  New  York.  N.  V. 
Jones,  Rev.  J.  William,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jones.  Colonel  Henry  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jones.  L  N.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jones,  Mrs.  James  M  ,  Pittsburgh,  Kansas. 
Jones,  Mrs.  J.  B.,  Selma,  Ala, 
Jones,  W.  Strother.  Red  Bank,  N.  J. 
Jone  ,  Thomas  Catesby.  Beuna  Vista,  Va. 
Jones.  Colonel  Meriwether.  Richmond  ,Va. 
Jones,  Waller  Nelson.  Peiershurg,  Va. 
Jones,  William  Henry,  Richmond,  Va, 
Jones,  Wm.  L ,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
Jordan.  Scott,  Chicago,  111. 
Jouett,  Rear  Admiral  J.  E  ,  Washington, 

D.C. 
Judkins,  Mrs.  W.  D.,  Danville,  Va. 

Kates,  J.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Keeling,  Judge  J.  M.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Keim,  Ms.  Betty  L.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Kelley.  James,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Kemper.  Willis  M  ,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 
Kent,  Prof.  C.  W..  University  of  Va. 
Kilby,  Judge  Wilbur  J..  Suffolk,  Va. 
Kirkman,  Lieutenant  George  W.,  U.  S.  A. 
Kittredge,  Mrs.  Georgia  D.,  Mt.  Auburn, 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Knabe,  William,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Lamb.  Colonel  William,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Lambert,  Mrs.  W.  H.,  Germantown,  Pa. 
Lane,  J.  Remsen,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Lancaster.  R.  A.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lassiter,  Major  F.  R  ,  Petersburg,  Va. 
I^throp.  Bryan,  Chicago.  111. 
Latimer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Wormeley,  Balti- 
more. Md. 
Latta,  Mrs.  H.  M  ,  Charlotte.  N.  C. 
Lawless.  Hon.  I.  T.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Lay,  H.  C,  Tellunde,  Col. 
Leach.  J.  Granville,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Leach,  James  A..  Richmond.  Va. 
Leake,  Judge  Wm.  Josiah,  Richmond,  Va. 


Lea,  Mrs.  Overton,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Lee.  Casenove  G.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Lee,  Miss  Lucy,  Maysville,  Ky. 
Lee.  Captain  R.  E.,  West  Point.  Va. 
I^ib,  Mrs  Lida  C.  G.,  San  Jos»,  Ca!. 
Leigh,  Egbert  G..  Jr  ,  Richmond,  Va. 
Letcher.  S.  Houston,  Lexington,  Va. 
Lewis,  Henry  J.,  Louisville,  Ky. 
Lewis,  R.  W..  Richmond,  Va. 
Lincoln,  Solomon,  Boston,  Mass. 
Lindsay,  Rev.  John  S.,  D.  D.,  Boston, 

Mass 
Livezey,  John  G  ,  Newport  News,  Va. 
Lodge.  Hon.  H.  C,  Nahant,  Mass. 
Logan,  Walter  S  ,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Long.  A,  R..  Lynchburg.  Va. 
Loyall,  Captain  B.  P.,  Norfolk,  Va. 
Lyle,  Mrs.  Maira  C.  N.,  Lexington,  Ky. 
Lyon,  Mrs.  George  A.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Lucas,  W.  B.,  Charlestown,  W.  Va. 

Maddox.  Mrs.  Virginia  K  ,  Jan  Jos»,  Cal. 
Malone,  Prof.  T.  H.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Mallory,  Lt.-Col.  J.  S.,  U.  S.  A. 
Markhnm.  George  D.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Markham.  Sir  ClementA  R..  London,  Eng. 
Marr,  Robt.  H.,  New  Orleans;  La. 
Marshall,  Colonel  Charles.  Baltimore,  Md. 
Marshall.  T.  E.,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Mason,  of  R..  John  T.,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Matthews,  Albert,  Boston,  Mass. 
Maurice.  H.  A.,  Manchester,  Va. 
Maury  Colonel  R.  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Maxwell.  John  W.  C.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Mayo,  E.  C.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Mayo,  P.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Marye,  Colonel  Morton,  Richmond,  Va. 
Mayer.  Mrs.  Mattie  R.,  Shreveport.  La. 
Meredith.  Charles  V.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Meredith,  W.  R.,  " 

Merrick,  Dr  T.  D.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Merrill,  Mrs.  Lida  W..  Terre  Haute.  Ind. 
Meysenbnrg.  Mrs.  D.  C,  Clayton,  Mo. 
Michler,  Mrs.  Sallie,  Oakland,  Cal. 
Miller,  Jacob  F.  Logan.  Utah. 
Miller,  Mrs.  Catharine  A.,  Indianapolis,1nd. 
Miller,  M.  A.,  Bramwell.  W.  Va. 
Minetree,  Mrs.  Joseph  P,  Washington, 

D.C. 
Mitchell,  Kirk  wood.  Richmond.  Va. 
Mitchell.  S.  P..  Petersburg,  Va. 
Montague,  Hon.  A.  J  .  Danville,  Va. 
Moore,  Josiah  S.,  Richmond.  Va. 
Moore,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Moore,  Warner.  •' 

Morrison,  Mrs.  Portia  W.,  Farmville,  Va. 


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Morton,  Dr.  DaniH,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

Morgan,  Dr.  D.  H.,  U.  S.  N. 

Morton,  Waller,  Richmond,  Va. 

Mundy,  W.  H.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Munford.  B.  B.,  Kicbmond.  Va. 

Munford,  R.  B.,  '* 

Mushbach,  George  A.,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Myers.  Major  E.  T.  D..  Richmond,  Va. 

McAllister.  J.  T.,Warm  Springs,  Va. 

McCabe.  Prof  VV.  G.,  Richmond,  Va. 

McCaw,J.  B..  M.  D.. 

McCord,  James  H.,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

McGehee,  C.  C.  Atlanta,  Ga. 

McGulre.  Mrs.  Frank  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 

McGuire,  Hunter,  M.  D..  " 

McGuire.J.  P.,  " 

McGuire,  J.  P.,  Jr., 

McKinley,  Lt.  W.  E.  W.,  U  S.  A.,  Philip- 
pine Islands. 

Mcllwaine.  Prof.  H.  R  ,  Hampden-Sidney 
College,  Va. 

Mcllwaine,  W.  P.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

Mcintosh,  Mrs.  Isabel  D  ,  Norfolk,  Va. 

McNutt,  Francis  A.,  Rome,  Italy. 

Nash,  H,  M..  M.  D..  Norfolk.  Va. 
Newton,  Virginius.  Richmond,  Va. 
NichoUs,  Rt.  Rev.  W.  F.,  San  Francisco, 

Cal. 
Nolting.  W.  Otto,  Richmond.  Va. 
Norris,  S.  Henry,  Phi  adelphia.  Pa. 

Ogtien,  Robt.  c:.,  New  York. 

Old,  Major,  W.  W..  Norfolk,  Va. 

Owen.  Capt.  H.  T  ,  Prince  Edward  Co., 

Va. 
Owen,  Thomas  N.,  Carrollton,  Ala. 
Owen,  B.  P.,  chesterfield  Co.,  Va. 

Page,  S.  Davis,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 
Page,  Major  Mann,  Brandon,  Va. 
Page,  Rosewell,  Richmond,  Va. 
Page,  Thomas  Nelson,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Palmer,  Col.  William  H.,  Richmond.  Va 
Parker,  Major  John.  Brownsholme  Hall, 

Clethiroe,  Lancashire.  Eng. 
Parks,  Marshall.  Norfolk.  Va. 
Parrish,  R.  L.,  Covmgton.  Va. 
Patterson.  James  A  ,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Pattcson,  S.  S.  P.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Pallon,  Marcus  W.,  New  Orleans,  La. 
Paxton,  Lieutenant  Robert  (;..  U.  S.  A. 
Payne,  Mrs.  C.  N.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Payne,  Gen  William  H..  Warrenton,  Va. 
Pease.  Thos.  H.,  New  Haven.  Conn. 
Pegram,  John  Combe,  Providence,  R.  I. 


Pell,  F.  A.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Peeler,  Mis.  Martha  E.,  Fiteler,  Issaquena, 

Co  ,  Miss 
Penn,  Mrs.  James  G.,  Danville,  Va. 
Pennington,  William  C.  Baltimore.  Md. 
Peterkin,  Mrs.  George  W.,  Parkersburg, 

W.  Va. 
Pettus,  William  J.,  M.  D.,  U.  S.  Marine 

Hos.,  Cleveland,  O. 
Petty,  J.  Calvin,  Sulphur  Mines,  Va. 
Ph!nizy,  Mrs.  Billups.  Athens,  Ga. 
Pickett,  Thomas  E.,  M.  D.,  Maysville,  Ky. 
Pollard,  Henry  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Polndexter,  <  harles  E  ,  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 
Pollard,  J.  G.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Pope,  George,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Potwin,  Mrs.  Eliza  Lewis.  Chicago.  III. 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Chas.  A  ,  Little  Rock.  Ark. 
Prentiss,  Judge  R.  R.,  Suffolk,  Va. 
Preston,  W  C,  Richmond,  Va. 
Price,  Theodore  H  ,  New  York. 
Prvor.  Gen.  Roger  A  .  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Pryor,  Hon.  Luke,  Athens,  Ala. 
Pugh,  A.  H.,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 
Pullen.  Charles  L  ,  New  Orleans,  La. 
Purcell,  Col.  J.  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Quinby,  C.  K.,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 

Raines,  Judge  C.  W.,  Austin,  Texas. 
Randolph.  Beverley  S.,  Froslburg,  Md. 
Randolph,  Rt.  Rev.  A.  M.,  D.  D.,  Norfolk. 

Va. 
Randolph,  Miss  Elizabeth  L.,  Kingston, 

R.I. 
Randolph,  G.  A.,  Warrensburg.  Ills. 
Raymond.  C.  H.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Read,  M.  Alston,  Laguna.  Texas. 
Read,  Henry  N  ,  M.  D..  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Reed,  Henry  VV.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Reinhart,  J.  W.,  Netherwood.  N.  J. 
Rennolds.  Robert  G..  Richmond,  Va. 
Rhodes,  James  F.,  Boston.  Mass. 
Ridenour,  Miss   Emma  B ,  Indianapolis, 

Ind. 
Ridgeley.  Mrs.  Jane  M.  Springfield,  III. 
Rivers,  Flournoy.  Pulaski.  Tenn. 
RoBards.  Col  John  Lewis,  Hannibal,  Mo. 
Roberts.  Mrs.  L.  P..  Norfolk,  Va. 
Robert,  Rev.  P  G.,  St.  Louis.  Mo. 
Robertson,  A.  F.,  Staunton,  Va. 
Robcilson,  Mrs.  Fred.  S  ,  Manchester,  Va. 
Robertson,  Capt.  Harrison,Charlottesville, 

Va. 
Robins.  William  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Robinson,  Capt.  Leigh,  Washington,  D.  C. 


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Robinson,  Rev.  T.  V.,  C.  S.  P.,  New  York, 

N.  Y. 
Rodes,  Boyle  O..  Danville,  Ky. 
Rodeit,  Wm.  R  ,  Ivy,  Va. 
Rofi^ers,  T.  F.,  Norfolk.  Va. 
Roller,  Gen.  John  E.,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 
Roosevelt,    Hon.  Theodore,    New    York, 

N.Y. 
RouKS.  Chas.  Broadway,  New  York.  N.  Y. 
Rowland,  Miss  Kate  Mason,  Richmond, 

Va. 
Ruicfcles.  Mrs.  Va.  ^abell,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Ryan,  Thos.  F.,  New  York. 

Salisbury.  Edward  E  ,  New  Haven.  Conn. 

Sands,  Hon.  Conway  R.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Saunders,  W.  B.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Savage,  N.  R  ,  Richmond,  Va. 

Schouler,  Prof.  James.  Boston,  Mass. 

Seabreese,  Rev.  A.  W..  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Seldner.  A.  B..  Norfolk,  Va. 

Shelby,  Mrs.  ^usan  H.,  Lexington.  Ky. 

Shippen,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Lloyd,  Baltimore, 
Md. 

Sitterding,  Fred.,  Richmond.  Va. 

Shirrefis.  Reuben.  Richmond.  Va. 

Show.  A.  B.,  Stanford  University,  Cal. 

Slaughter,  Francis  W  ,  Germantown,  Pa. 

Smith,  H.  M.,  Jr..  Richmond,  Va. 

Smith,  Miss  Henrietta,  «^t.  Paul,  Minn. 

Smith,  Miss  Margaret  V.,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Smith.  Mrs.  G.  Herbert.  Wilmington.  N.  C. 

Smith,  Mrs.  J.  Morgan.  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Smith.  Willis  B.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Smith,  Lieutenant  R.  C,  U.  S.  N.,  Wash- 
ington. D  C. 

Smith,  Tunstall,  Baltimore.  Md. 

Snowden.  W.  H.,  Arcturus,  Va. 

J^orrel.  Francis,  M.  D..  Roanoke,  Va. 

Southall.  Dr.  J   W..  Amelia  county,  Va. 

Spears.  Harrv  D.,  New  York.  N  Y. 

Spencer,  Mrs.  Samuel.  Washington,  D.  C. 

Spotswood.  Mrs.  W.  F.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

Stanard,  W.  G.,  Richmond,  Va. 

*itanard,  W.  P..  New  York.  N.  Y.  • 

Steiger,  E  .  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Stevens,  Byam  K.,  New  York.  N.  Y 

Stewart.  Miss  Annie  C,  Brook  Hill,  Va. 

*itewart.  Miss  E.  Hope,  " 

Stewart,  Miss  Norma,  " 

Stewart,  Miss  Lucy  W.,  " 

Stewart,  Rev.  J.  CaVvin,  Richmond.  Va. 

Stimson,  Mrs.  Daniel  M  ,  New  York. 

Stimson,  R.  M.,  Marietta.  Ohio. 

Stockton.  Mrs.  S    D..  Poughkeepsie,  N.Y. 

Mringfellow,  Maj.  Chas.  S  ,  Rlchmond,Va. 


Strother,  Hon.  P.  W.,  Pearisburg,  Va. 
Strykcr.  General  W.  S.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 
Stuart,  Henry  C,  Elk  Garden,  Va. 
Stubbs,  Prof.  T.  J  ,  Williamsburg.  Va 
Sturdevant,  Col.  R.,  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo. 
Sumner,  John  O  ,  Roxhury,  Mass. 
Swineford.  H.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Syrich,  F.  D..  Washington.  D.  C. 

Taylor,  W.  E.,  Norfolk.  Va. 

Ten  Broeck,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Worthington,  Ky. 

Terhune,  Mrs.  E.  T  ,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Thacker,  H.  C,  Boston.  Mass. 

Thomas,  Douglas  H.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Thomas.  R.  S.,  Smithfield.  Va. 

Thomas,  Rev.  W.  D  ,  Richmond,  Va. 

Thornton,  Mrs.  Champe  F  ,  Richmond.  Va. 

Throckmorton,  C.  Wickliffe,  New  York, N  Y. 

Thruston.  R.  C.  Ballard.  Louisville.  Ky. 

Todd,  Chas.  H  ,  M    D  ,  Owensboro,  Ky. 

Todd.  George  D..  Louisville.  Ky. 

Towles,  Walter,  Henderson,  Ky. 

Travers,  S.  W.,  Richmond,  Va. 

Tree,  J.  B., 

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Tunstall,  Richard  B.,  " 

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Tyler,  Mrs.  A.  M.,  Richmond.  Va. 

Tyler,  Prof.  Lyon  G.,  Williamsburg,  Va. 

Underwood,  Gen.  John  C.  Covington.  Ky. 
Underwood,  Wilbur.  Washington.  D.  C. 
Upshur.  Rear  Admiral  John  H.,  U.  S.  N., 

Washington,  D.  C 
Upshur,  T.  T  ,  Nassawaddox,  Va. 

Valentine,  B.  B.,  Richmond.  Va. 

Valentine,  E.  P., 

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Mass. 
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Vol.  VII.  JANUARY,  1900.  .  No.  3. 


THE    VIGILANCE    COMMITTEE. 


Richmond  during  the  War  of  1812. 


[The  *' Vigilance  Committee,"  whose  minutes  have  been  pre- 
served in  the  manuscript  collections  of  this  Society,  was  organ- 
ized at  the  time  of  one  invasion  of  Virginia  in  the  summer  of 
18 1 3,  and  called  into  renewed  activity  by  the  fear  of  another, 
early  in  1814.  In  June,  1813,  a  considerable  British  fleet  of  line- 
of-battle  ships  and  frigates  under  Admiral  Sir  George  Cockburn, 
with  a  land  force  commanded  by  Sir  Sidney  Beckwith,  assem- 
bled in  Lynhaven  Bay,  and  on  June  22d  made  an  attack  on  Cra- 
ney  Island,  near  Norfolk,  which  was  handsomely  repulsed. 
Three  days  later  a  considerable  force  landed  at  Hampton  and 
occupied  that  town  after  a  sharp  fight  with  a  body  of  Virginia 
militia  under  Major  Stapleton  Crutchfield  and  Major  Gawin  L. 
Corbin  (who  was  wounded).  The  militia  appears  to  have  be- 
haved very  creditably.  It  was  alleged  that  the  British  soldiers 
committed  many  atrocities  in  Hampton.  Shortly  afterwards  a 
demonstration  was  made  towards  Smithfield,  and  vessels  came 
up  the  river  as  high  as  Sandy  Point.  It  was  generally  believed 
that  an  attempt  to  capture  Richmond  would  be  made. 


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The  newspapers  of  the  time  give  the  best  idea  of  the  excite- 
ment which  prevailed.  The  Enquirer  of  July  2,  1813,  says: 
"The  alarm  of  Wednesday,  however,  deserves  particular  men- 
tion— more  especially  as  it  will  be  exaggerated  at  a  distance 
from  the  scene  of  action.  We  trace  the  incidents  of  the  day 
with  mixed  emotions.  There  was  too  much  panics  exhibited — 
but  when  we  consider  the  spirit  which  it  struck  out,  the  alacrity 
with  which  every  man  flew  to  the  post  of  duty,  the  coolness,  the 
high  and  heroic  sentiments  which  it  inspired,  and  the  schemes 
of  precaution  and  safety  which  it  will  produce,  it  is  impossible 
not  to  rejoice  that  the  cause  of  these  effects  has  occurred. 

**  On  Tuesday  morning  we  heard  of  the  evacuation  of  Hampton, 
and  of  the  repulsion  of  the  enemy  at  Smithfield.  Our  regimen- 
tal musters,  however,  still  went  on  both  in  the  morning  and  the 
evening. 

"  On  Wednesday  we  heard  of  the  movements  of  the  enemy  in 
the  mouth  of  the  river — we  heard  of  the  infamous  and  inhuman 
conduct  at  Hampton.  A  storm  of  indignation  and  horror,  01 
pity  for  the  sufferers  and  abhorrence  for  the  monsters  succeeded. 

"About  2  o'clock  an  express  arrived  from  Sandy  Point,  about 
40  miles  down  the  river.  The  bell  *  was  rung,  the  alarm  guns 
fired.  The  most  exaggerated  reports  passed  immediately  into 
circulation;  and  a  degree  of  alarm  immediately  ensued  among 
the  women  and  children,  the  sick  and  the  slaves,  which  such  a 
state  of  misrepresentation  was  calculated  to  produce.  We  had 
been  so  long  reposing  in  the  lap  of  peace,  and  the  slighest  ap- 
proach of  danger  was  enough  to  strike  a  false  terror  into  the 
helpless  and  the  weak.  Such  as  were  placed  in  public  situations 
thought  it  prudent  to  take  precautions  against  a  danger,  the  ex- 
tent of  which  they  were  unable  to  ascertain.  Those  who  were 
in  the  banks  prepared  to  remove  their  specie;  those  in  the  pub- 
lic offices,  their  papers  and  records. 

"But  midst  this  scene  of  momentary  confusion  the  spirit  of 
the  citizen  was  seen  arising  like  the  sun  amidst  the  clouds. 
Every  man  flew  to  the  public  square  with  his  arms — old  men  of 


*  That  in  the  old  bell  tower  in  the  Capitol  Square,  which  for  many 
years— until  the  close  of  the  Civil  War — was  the  tocsin  for  the  city. 


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60  were  seen  stepping  into  the  ranks;  all  classes  sought  the 
scene  of  duty — and  in  one  hour  from  the  signs  of  alarm,  the 
regiment  *  was  displayed  in  the  square  in  more  formidable  num- 
bers than  it  was  ever  known  to  exhibit.  Exempts  of  all  descrip- 
tions, strangers,  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  U.  S.,  expressed  but 
one  resolution,  and  that  was,  to  sacrifice  their  lives  rather  than 
yield  up  the  metropolis  of  the  State  to  the  Invader.  The  Rifle 
Company  obtained  many  new  recruits.  The  Light  Infantry  f 
overflowed — and  in  four  hours  a  company  of  Flying  Artillery  of 
more  than  80  men  was  organized,  who  nominated  Wm.  Wirt 
as  their  Captain,  Benjamin  J.  Harris  as  their  ist  and  Edward 
W.  Trent  as  their  2nd  lieutenant. 

"We  were  ready  for  action.  Everything  depended  upon  the 
next  express — the  Regt.  was  dismissed  until  the  beat  of  the 
drum.  In  the  mean  time  additional  troops  were  despatched  to 
the  points  below — troops  of  horse  from  this  City,  from  Gooch- 
land and  Powhatan  flew  to  meet  the  enemy — and  several  com- 
panies of  infantry  were  despached  in  the  night. 

"No  express,  however,  arrived  *till  yesterday — the  enemy 
were  falling  down  the  river. 

* '  The  confusion  is  past  and  we  are  safe  not  only  for  the  pres- 
ent but  against  any  enterprise  which  the  enemy  may  meditate. 
Several  hundreds  of  men  are  ready  at  fort  Powhatan  %  to  breast 
the  first  shock — and  at  this  moment  there  cannot  be  less  than 


♦The  19th  regiment  of  Virginia  Militia.  The  field  and  staff  were 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Ambler,  commanding;  Majors  Christopher 
Tompkins  and  Hugh  Davis;  John  Adams,  surgeon;  Thomas  Massie  and 
John  Hayes,  surgeon's  mates;  Samuel  G.  Adams,  adjutant;  William 
Hay,  Jr.,  paymaster;  William  Barnes  and  J.  West,  quartermasters;  and 
Daniel  Hanna,  serjeant-major. 

t  Now  the  Richmond  Light  Infantry  Blues.  This  company,  now  ex- 
panded into  a  battalion,  was  organized  in  1798,  and  has  served  faithfully 
and  gallantly  in  every  war  since  that  date.  During  the  war  of  18 12, 
William  Murphy  was  captain. 

X  Fort  Powhatan,  on  |ames  river,  in  Prince  George  county,  was  origi- 
nally constructed  during  the  Revolution,  and  rebuilt  and  strengthened 
during  the  war  of  1812.  Many  traces  of  its  works,  in  stone  and  brick 
are  still  visible  from  the  steamboat  landing  at  Fort  Powhatan  wharf. 


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4,000*  men  at  the  Malvern  Hills,t  Sandy  Point  and  their  imme- 
diate vicinity— exclusive  of  the  troops  in  Richmond,  &c." 

There  are  in  the  collections  of  this  Society  a  number  of  letters 
written  during  the  war  of  181 2,  by  Dr.  Thomas  Massie,  of  Rich- 
mond, to  his  father,  Major  Thomas  Massie.  Extracts  from  these 
will  be  appended.] 

At  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Richmond,  held  at  the  Capitol 
on  Saturday,  June  26th,  181 3,  the  following  resolutions  were 
adopted  : 

Resolved^  That  the  situation  of  this  City  and  the  adjacent 
Country  calls  for  immediate  steps  to  be  taken  to  guard  against 
danger  from  the  Common  enemy;  and  that  a  committee  of  citizens 
of  Richmond  be  appointed  to  be  called  the  Committee  of  Vigi- 
lance, whose  duty  it  shall  be  in  concert  with  the  executive  auth- 
ority of  this  Commonwealth,  the  Civil  authority  of  the  city  and 
the  officers  of  the  Militia  of  the  19th  Regiment,  if  they  think 
proper  to  aid  therein,  to  organize  and  carry  into  immediate 
operation  such  defensive  measures  as  they  may  think  best  for  the 
general  defence  of  the  City,  and  from  time  to  time  examine  such 
matters  as  may  be  connected  with  the  safety  thereof ;  and  that 
this  meeting  do  pledge  themselves  individually  to  support  the 
said  Committee  in  carrying  their  plans  into  full  effect,  and  will 
contribute  to  the  expence  of  the  same. 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Committee  consist  of  thirteen  members 
and  be  taken  from  Citizens  other  than  members  of  the  Executive 
of  the  Commonwealth  and  the  officers  of  the  19th  Regiment,  a 
majority  of  which  Committee  shall  constitute  a  quorum  &  shall 

*In  1813  the  troops  on  the  north  side  of  James  river  were  commanded 
by  Brigadier-General  William  Chamberlayne,  of  the  Virginia  militia. 

t  Possibly  Malvern  Hill  (or  '*Mawbornehills,"  as  the  old  county 
records  style  it),  may  have  been  a  place  of  military  importance  from 
a  remote  period.  It  may  be  that  battles  were  fought  here  by  the  In- 
dians, during  the  extension  of  the  Powhatan  power  westward.  Cer- 
tainly it  has  had  a  place  in  the  three  greatest  wars  of  the  United  States. 
During  the  Revolution  it  was  for  a  time  Lafayette's  headquarters;  its 
occupation  during  the  war  of  181 2  is  referred  to  above,  and  the  bloody 
battle  between  McClellan  and  Lee  in  1862,  made  the  name  memorable 
in  the  annals  of  the  Civil  war. 


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have  power  to  supply  the  vacancy  of  any  member  who  shall  be 
unable  to  attend. 

Resolved y  That  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  be  requested  in 
the  name  of  the  Citizens  of  Richmond  to  correspond  with  discreet 
and  influential  men  in  the  surrounding  Counties,  on  the  subject 
of  organizing  similar  Committees  toco-operate  with  the  Commit- 
tee of  this  city. 

The  following  Gentlemen  are  appointed  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Vigilance,  to-wit :  Dr.  William  Foushee,  Sr./  Major 
James  Gibbon,*  The  Hon'ble  John  Marshall,*  Col.  William 
Campbell,*  Major  William  Price,*  Major  Archibald  Denholm,* 
William  Wirt,^  Philip  Norborne  Nicholas, •  Thomas  Ritchie,' 
William  C.  Williams,**  Benjamin  Tate,"  John  G.  Smith  and 
Alexander  McRae,**  Esqrs. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  above  appointed 
held  at  the  Washington  Tavern,"  on  Saturday  the  26th  day  ot 
June,  1813. 

Present,  WilHam  Foushee,  Sen',  James  Gibbon,  John  Marshall, 
William  Campbell,  William  Price,  Benjamin  Tate,  William  C. 
Williams,  Thomas  Ritchie,  Philip  Norborne  Nicholas  and  Alex- 
ander McRae. 

The  foregoing  Resolutions  of  the  Citizens  of  Richmond,  passed 
at  a  meeting  held  by  them  as  above. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded — 

Resolved^  That  a  Committee  of  this  Board  be  appointed  to 
confer  with  the  Executive  of  this  Commonwealth,  the  civil  auth- 
ority of  the  city,  and  the  officers  of  the  19th  Regiment,  upon 
the  best  mode  to  be  adopted  for  the  defence  of  the  city,  and  that 
they  report  the  same  to  this  board. 

And  on  the  question  being  put  thereupon  it  passed  in  the  affirm- 
ative. 

And  a  committee  was  appointed  of  William  Foushee,  John 
Marshall  and  James  Gibbon. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded — 

Resolved,  That  when  this  Board  adjourn  it  do  adjourn  till  to- 
morrow one  o'clock,  then  to  meet  again  at  this  place. 

Benjamin  Tate,  one  of  the  members  appointed  by  the  General 
meeting  of  the  Citizens,  being  about  to  leave  the  City  for  some 


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time  resigned  his  appointment  as  a  member  of  this  Board — 
whereupon  on  motion  made  and  seconded — 

Resolved,  That  Robert  Pollard  "  be  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy 
occationed  by  the  said  resignation. 

And  then  the  Board  adjourned. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  held  agreable  to 
adjournment  at  the  Washington  Tavern  in  the  city  of  Richmond 
on  Sunday  the  27th  day  of  June,  18 13. 

Present:  William  Foushee,  Sen',  John  Marshall,  James  Gib- 
bon, William  Campbell,  William  Price.  Philip  N.  Nicholas, 
Thomas  Ritchie,  Alex'  McRae  &  William  C.  Williams,  members 
of  Committee  of  Vigilance. 

Robert  Pollard,  who  was  appointed  by  this  Board  to  fill  the 
vacancy  occationed  by  the  resignation  of  Benjamin  Tate,  appeared 
and  took  his  seat. 

William  Foushee,  from  the  committee  appointed  to  confer 
with  the  Executive  of  the  Commonwealth,  the  Civil  authority  of 
this  City  and  the  officers  of  the  19th  Reg*  made  a  report  in  these 
words: 

The  Committee  appointed  to  confer  with  the  Executive,  the 
officers  of  the  19th  Reg*,  and  the  civil  authority,  have  according 
to  order  waited  on  the  governor  and  communicated  the  objects, 
which  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  have  in  view. 

The  Governor  received  them  in  the  most  friendly  manner,  and 
very  frankly  assured  them  of  the  wishes  of  the  Executive  to  com- 
municate freely  with  the  Citizens,  and  to  co-operate  with  them  in 
every  practicable  means  for  the  safety  and  protection  of  the  City, 
and  stated  explicitly  a  desire  to  receive  any  suggestions  to  that 
end  which  the  Citizens  or  their  Committee  might  from  time  to 
time  think  proper  to  make. 

The  Governor  also  stated  that  the  public  were  in  possession  of 
upwards  of  12,000  lbs.  vti  powder  independent  of  the  private 
powder  of  merchants;  that  5,000  lbs.  of  this  were  made  up  into 
cartridges  &  ordered  to  the  lower  country;  and  observed  as  it 
was  not  contemplated  to  erect  fortifications  he  thought  the  quan- 
tity on  hand  tolerably  sufficient  for  field  artillery  and  musketry. 

The  Governor  likewise  mentioned  that  the  troops  at  Camp 
Randolph  "  would  on  the  first  occation  move  down  to  Malvern 


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hills  and  the  light  troops  to  Westover.  That  they  had  four 
pieces  of  artillery  with  them,  and  that  there  are  8  pieces  fitt  for 
immediate  action  in  the  City — that  the  troops  ordered  out  with 
what  were  in  the  field,  including  those  in  Chesterfield,  amount 
to  upwards  of  5,000  ready  to  act  at  short  notice  on  this  side  the 
river,  and  which  he  considers  sufficient  for  the  protection  of  this 
part  of  the  Country  against  the  present  force  which  the  enemy 
are  able  to  detach  for  annoying  us. 

The  stock  of  small  arms  on  hand,  he  did  not  think  as  plentiful, 
or  of  such  quality  as  he  could  wish,  but  that  we  had  some  mus- 
kets and  tolerable  supply  of  swords. 

The  19th  Reg'  your  Committee  understood  would  be  called  out 
to-morrow  fur  inspection,  as  to  arms,  &c.,  &c.,  and  under  this 
information  your  committee  did  not  think  it  necessary  to  con- 
fer at  present  with  the  officers  of  that  Reg\  or  to  request  an 
immediate  meeting  of  the  Common  Hall  of  this  City. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded — 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  enquire  where 
and  on  what  terms  a  supply  of  powder  and  lead  can  be  obtained. 

And  a  committee  was  appointed  of  Thomas  Ritchie,  Robert 
Pollard  and  William  C.  Williams. 

On  a  motion  made  ajid  seconded — 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  examine  the 
several  positions  in  and  about  this  City,  and  whether  it  would  be 
eligible  to  fortify  any  one  or  more  of  them,  and  that  they  report 
the  same  with  their  opinion  thereon  to  the  Board. 

And  a  committee  was  apj)ointed  of  John  Marshall.  James 
Gibbon,  William  Price,  William  Campbell  and  Alexander  iMcRae. 

And  then  the  Board  adjourned  till  tomorrow  evening  seven 
o'clock,  then  to  meet  at  this  place. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  held  by  adjourn- 
ment at  the  Washington  tavern,  on  Monday,  the  28th  June, 
1813. 

Present:  William  Foushee,  Senr.,  John  Marshall,  William 
Price,  William  Campbell,  James  Gibbon,  Robert  Pollard,  Philip 
N.  Nicholas,  Thomas  Ritchie,  William  Wirt,  and  Will.  C. 
Williams,  members  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance. 


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232  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

Mr.  Marshall,  from  the  Committee  appointed  to  view  the  sev- 
eral positions  in  and  about  this  City,  and  to  report  whether  in 
their  opinion  it  would  be  proper  to  fortify  any  or  either  of  them ,  • 
made  a  report  in  these  words: 

The  committee  appointed  to  examine  the  several  positions  in 
and  about  this  City,  and  whether  it  would  be  eligible  to  fortify 
any  one  or  more  of  them,  have  as  far  as  was  in  their  power  per- 
formed the  duty  assigned  to  them  and  now  beg  leave  respect- 
fully to  report: 

That  there  is  in-  this  City  or  its  immediate  vicinity,  no  particu- 
lar hight  or  eminence  which  overlooks  and  commands  the  whole 
town.  There  is  no  spot  on  which  a  battery  could  be  erected 
that  would  annoy  an  enemy  in  whatever  direction  he  might  ap- 
proach, or  that  would  protect  any  considerable  portion  of  Rich- 
mond, nor  is  it  necessary  for  an  invading  army  to  enter  the  city 
by  any  particular  route.  Any  one  or  more  of  five  or  six  roads 
may  be  used,  and  there  are  but  four  places  in  which  an  army 
would  experience  any  serious  obstacle  from  the  nature  of  the 
ground  in  marching  along  the  intervals  between  those  roads. 
The  fortifications  of  any  particular  spot  therefore  would  afford 
no  protection  to  the  City,  nor  would  the  defence  of  any  particu- 
lar road  impede  the  advance  of  enemy  into  the  centre  of  the 
town.  A  very  small  circuit  would  enable  him  to  avoid  our 
works,  and  to  enter  the  town  where  the  way  would  be  open  to 
him.  The  idea  of  fortifying  a  small  piece  of  ground  into  which 
the  militia  might  retire  if  unequal  to  the  contest  in  the  open  field, 
has  also  been  considered.  Your  committee  can  perceive  no  ad- 
vantage to  result  from  such  a  plan  as  it  would  afford  no  protec- 
tion to  the  town,  as  such  a  position  would  neither  prevent  its 
being  entered  by  the  enemy  nor  expel  them  from  it,  the  only 
benefit  we  could  hope  from  the  fortification  would  be  the  secu- 
rity it  might  afford  to  troops  unable  to  keep  the  field.  But 
that  security  might  be  looked  for  with  much  more  confidence 
from  a  retreat  into  the  open  country  than  from  a  retreat  into  an 
enclosed  piece  of  ground.  Such  a  place,  if  not  immensely  strong, 
and  well  supplied  with  provisions  and  water,  must  soon  fall,  with 
those  who  had  sought  refuge  in  it,  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy. 
But  if  a  state  of  things  should  occur  which  might  render  such  a 


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place  of  refuge  necessary,  the  Capitol  it  is  believed,  might  be 
used  for  that  purpose  with  more  advantage  than  any  works 
which  could  be  constructed  by  the  inhabitants  of  Richmond. 

It  is  believed  that  no  works  would  afford  any  essential  advan- 
tage to  the  City  unless  the  whole  town,  or  that  part  of  it  to  which 
it  was  intended  to  extend  protection,  should  be  enclosed  and 
regularly  fortified.  Such  works  would  require  sums  unattainable 
by  us,  and,  if  erected,  would  require  a  garrison  for  their  defence 
more  than  sufficient  to  beat  the  enemy  in  open  field. 

Your  Committee  are  too  conscious  of  their  destitution  of  pro- 
fessional skill  to  advance  with  any  confidence  the  opinion  they 
have  formed;  but  the  resolution  under  which  they  act  having 
made  it  their  duty  to  give  an  opinion,  they  say,  though  with 
much  diffidence,  that  they  do  not  think  any  attempt  to  fortify 
the  city  advisable.  It  is  to  be  saved  by  operations  in  the  open 
field,  by  facing  the  enemy  with  a  force  which  may  deter  him 
from  any  attempt  to  penetrate  the  interior  of  our  country,  and 
which  may  impress  him  with  the  danger  of  separating  himself 
from  his  ships.  If  this  protection  cannot  be  afforded,  Richmond 
must  share  the  fate  of  other  places  which  are  in  similar  circum- 
stances. Throughout  the  world  open  towns  belong  to  the  army 
which  is  master  of  the  Country.  But  your  committee  is  sanguine 
in  the  hope  that  the  means  in  our  power  and  which  the  government 
has  employed  are  such  as  to  promise  security  against  any  attack 
which  the  army  now  in  our  country  can  make.  They  have  en- 
tire reliance  on  the  judicious  application  of  that  force,  and  have 
no  doubt  but  that  the  ideas  which  have  occurred  to  them  have 
also  occurred  to  and  have  had  their  due  worth  with  the  constituted 
authorities.  If  the  militia  be  put  into  the  best  condition  for  ser- 
vice, if  the  light  artillery  be  well  manned  and  supplied  with 
horses  so  as  to  move  with  celerity  to  any  point  where  its  service 
may  be  required;  if  the  Cavalry  be  kept  entire  and  in  active 
service;  if  the  precaution  of  supplying  in  sufficient  quantity  all 
the  implements  of  war  be  taken,  your  committee  hope  and  be- 
lieve that  this  town  will  have  no  reason  to  fear  the  invading  foe. 

Resolved,  Therefore  as  the  opinion  of  the  Board  that  it  is  not 
expedient  to  fortify  this  city,  or  any  point  in  or  about  the  same, 
by  regular  works. 


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234  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL    MAGAZINE. 

The  Board  not  intending  to  decide  on  the  advantage  of  dis- 
pensing and  manning  cannon  on  the  heights  overlooking  the 
approaches  of  the  town,  and  the  question  being  put  thereupon, 
it  passed  in  the  affirmative. 

William  Campbell  and  William  Price  having  informed  the 
Board  that  Archibald  Denham  who  was  elected  a  member  of  this 
committee  was  unable  to  attend. 

Resolved^  That  Robert  Greenhow  *•  be  appointed  in  the  room 
of  the  said  Archibald,  a  member  of  this  Board. 

William  Foushee  laid  before  the  Board  a  communication  from 
Robert  Greenhow,  upon  the  subject  of  the  general  defence  of 
the  State. 

Resolved,  that  the  chairman  be  requested  to  submit  the  same 
to  the  consideration  of  the  executive  of  the  Commonwealth. 

On  motion  made — 

Resolved,  That  the  next  meeting  of  this  Board  be  held  at  the 
office  of  Wm.  C.  Williams,  in  this  city.  And  then  the  Board 
adjourned  till  Wednesday  evening,  seven  o'clock. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  held  at  the  office 
of  Wm.  C.  Williams  on  Wednesday  evening  the  30th  June,  1813. 

Present:  William  Foushee,  Sen',  John  Marshall,  James  Gib- 
bon, William  Campbell,  William  Price,  Robert  Pollard,  Robert 
Greenhow  &  William  C.  Williams,  Members  of  Committee,  &c. 

On  motion  made  &  seconded  that  the  committee  come  to  the 
following  resolution : 

Resolved,  As  the  opinion  of  the  Committee  that  the  Executive, 
or  the  Commandant  of  the  19th  Regiment,  be  respectfully  re- 
quested to  promulgate  to  the  Citizens  of  Richmond  through  their 
Mayor  so  far  as  is  compatable  with  the  public  services,  whatever 
rule  they  may  deem  proper  to  adopt  as  signals  for  collecting  the 
troops,  or  as  signals  of  alarm  on  the  approach  of  an  enemy. 

And  on  the  question  being  put  therein  it  passed  in  the  affirm- 
ative. 

On  motion  made  and  seconded  that  the  Committee  come  to 
the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  the  Citizens  of  Rich- 
mond, not  belonging  to  the  militia,  to  embody  themselves  either 
in  the  infantry  or  cavalry  for  the  protection  of  the  City  during 


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the  absence  of  the  militia  therefrom,  and  that  they  meet  tomor- 
row on  the  Capitol  square  at  twelve  o'clock  for  that  purpose. 

Thomas  Ritchie,  a  member  of  this  Board,  being  called  out 
with  the  militia  of  Richmond  into  public  service,  resigned  his 
seat  at  this  Board. 

Resolved,  That  John  Robinson  be  as  he  is  hereby  appointed 
to  fill  the  said  vacancy. 

And  then  the  board  adjourned  till  tomorrow  evening  at  7 
o'clock. 


Thursday  evening,  July  ist,  181 3. 
A  sufficient  number  of  members  not  attending  this  evening. 
No  board  was  formed. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  of  the  City  of 
Richmond  at  the  Capitol  in  the  said  city  on  Thursday,  the  third 
day  of  February,  18 14. 

Present:  Robert  Pollard,  William  Campbell,  James  Gibbon, 
William  Price,  Robert  Greenhow,  Alex'  McRae  and  John  Rob- 
inson," Members  of  the  Committee. 

On  motion — 

Resolved,  That  Robert  Pollard  be  appointed  chairman /;y?/^///. 
and  John  Robinson,  Sec' y  pro  tern. 

On  motion  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions  were 
adopted : 

The  President  of  the  Board  of  Vigilance  having  communicated 
to  its  members,  the  contents  of  a  letter  from  the  Mayor  of  Peters- 
burg addressed  to  the  Mayor  of  this  City,  setting  forth  the  pres- 
ent defenceless  State  of  both  places;  the  immense  value  of  public 
and  private  property  therein  concentrated;  &  the  necessity  that 
exists  of  adopting  measures  to  counteract  the  designs  of  the 
enemy;  which  it  is  seriously  apprehended  will  so  soon  as  the 
rigors  of  winter  are  abated  be  levelled  against  those  two  places: 

Resolved,  That  the  letter  alluded  to  and  the  documents  therein 
referred  to  accompanied  with  a  memorial  to  be  drafted  by  the 
Committee  hereafter  named,  be  with  as  little  delay  as  possible 
submitted  to  the  Hon'ble  the  Executive  and  Council  of  State, 
and  if  funds  commensurate  to  carry  into  complete  effect  what  is 
now  so  vitally  important  to  the  preservation  of  all  that  is  held 


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most  dear  to  the  citizens  of  both  places,  the  circumjacent  country 
and  the  State  at  large,  whose  interest  is  so  deeply  involved  in 
the  safeguard  of  the  property  within  the  limits  of  this  city,  be 
not  under  their  immediate  controul,  that  they  should  be  earnestly 
solicited  to  lose  no  time  in  bringing,  the  subject  before  the  gene- 
ral assembly,  whose  session  is  fast  approaching  to  its  close. 

Resolved,  That  Mr.  Greenhow,  Mr.  McRae  and  Mr.  Robin- 
son be  a  committee  to  carry  the  above  into  execution. 

Resolved,  That  Mr.  Charles  Ellis  "  be  appointed  a  member  of 
this  Committee  in  the  room  of  Mr.  John  G.  Smith,  who  hath 
declined  serving  as  such. 

And  then  the  Board  adjourned  till  Saturday  next  at  half  past 
one  o'clock,  then  to  meet  at  this  place. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Vigilence  of  the  City  of  Rich- 
mond, at  the  Capitol  on  Saturday,  the  5th  day  February,  1814. 

Present:  Robert  Pollard,  William  Campbell,  Robert  Green- 
how,  Alex'r  McRae,  P.  N.  Nicholas,  Chs.  Ellis,  and  John  Rob- 
inson— members  of  Com**. 

Mr.  Greenhow,  from  the  Committee  appointed  at  the  last 
meeting,  reported  that  the  Committee  had,  agreeable  to  instruc- 
tions to  them,  addressed  the  Executive  of  this  State  upon  the 
present  defenseless  situation  of  this  City  and  the  Town  of  Peters- 
burg, and  other  subjects  mentioned  in  the  Letter  of  the  Mayor 
of  the  said  Town  of  Petersburg,  and  also  presented  to  this  Board 
an  extract  from  the  minutes  of  the  Executive  relative  to  the  sub- 
ject of  the  said  communication  which  extract  was  read,  and  is 
as  follows: 

*'In  Council,  Saturday,  5th  February,  1814. 

' '  The  Governor  submitted  to  the  Board  a  memorial  from  the 
Committee  of  Vigilance  of  the  City  of  Richmond  on  the  situa- 
tion of  Fort  Powhatan  and  representing  the  importance  of  hav- 
ing it  put  in  a  proper  situation  for  defending  the  passage  up 
James  River  and  for  the  safety  of  said  city.  It  is  advised  that 
the  subject  be  referred  to  the  Legislature. 

**  Extract  from  the  minutes. 

*' Wm.  Robertson,  C.  C* 

And  then  the  Committee  adjourned  till  Tuesday  next,  100* elk 
to  meet  at  this  place. 


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At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  of  the  City  of 
Richmond  at  the  Capitol,  on  Wednesday,  the  i6th  of  February, 
1814. 

Pres't:  Wm.  Foushee,  Robert  Pollard,  Robert  Greenhow, 
Wni.  C.  Williams,  William  Wirt,  P.  N.  Nicholas,  &  John  Rob- 
inson, members  of  the  Comm'ee. 

On  motion,  the  following  was  agreed  to  by  the  Board: 

**The  Board  of  Vigilance  of  this  City  respectfully  acknowl- 
edge the  sentiments  they  entertain  of  the  promptitude  and  zeal 
manifested  by  the  Hon*ble  the  chief  magistrate  &  Council  ot 
State  in  their  adoption  of  measures  which  they  trust  will  even- 
tuate in  giving  to  the  Fort  at  Powhatan  an  aspect  so  formidable, 
as  .should  it  not  induce  the  enemy  to  abandon  his  probable  de- 
signs against  it,  may  so  check  them  as  to  afford  the  citizens  of 
the  rich  and  flourishing  towns  of  this  place  and  Petersburg  with 
those  of  the  circumjacent  country,  time  sufficient  to  repel  his 
farther  devastating  incursions.  The  course  that  this  important 
subject  has  taken,  being  sufficient  to  assure  us  that  an  immediate 
communication  will  by  your  Hon'ble  Body  be  opened  with  the 
General  Government,  we  take  the  liberty  of  recommending  the 
intelligent  Mr.  Richard  Bate  as  the  bearer  of  such  communica- 
tion, which  we  are  informed  he  is  willing  to  undertake.  The 
laudable  zeal  which  Mr.  Bate  has  evinced  on  this  subject  and  his 
knowledge  of  the  ground  on  which  the  fort  is  erected,  as  well  as 
of  the  adjacent  country,  may  enable  him  to  give  explanation  on 
this  subject  at  Washington,  which  may  contribute  to  advance 
the  object  we  have  so  much  at  heart,  and  we  have  no  doubt  that 
if  the  purpose  of  the  resolution  of  the  House  of  Delegates  should 
succeed  that  those  who  may  have  the  direction  of  the  works  at 
Fort  Powhatan  would  find  an  useful  auxiliary  in  the  wisdom  and 
intelligence  of  Mr.  Bate  [Batte  ?]. 

And  then  the  Committee  adjourned. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  of  the  City  of 
Richmond,  at  the  Washington  Tavern,  on  friday,  the  ist  day  of 
July,  1814. 

Present:  Dr.  Wm.  Foushee,  the  Hon'ble  John  Marshall,  Wm. 
Campbell,  Robert  Greenhow,  Alex'r  McRae,  Wm.  Price,  P.  N. 


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Nicholas,  John  Robinson,  &.  Chs.  Ellis,  members  of  the  Comm'ee. 

On  a  motion  made  &  seconded — 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  this  board  be  appointed  to 
confer  with  the  Executive  of  this  Commonwealth,  the  Civil  au- 
thority of  this  City  and  the  officers  of  the  19th  regiment,  upon 
the  best  mode  to  be  adopted  for  the  defense  of  the  City,  &  that 
they  report  the  result  of  their  conference  to  this  board. 

And  a  committee  was  appointed  of  Wm.  Foushee,  John  Mar- 
shall, James  Gibbon,  Wm.  Campbell  &  Robert  Greenhow,  or 
any  three  of  them. 

The  Board  being  informed  by  a  member  thereof  that  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Pollard,  another  member,  had  signified  his  intention  of  leav- 
ing this  city  on  a  visit  for  several  months,  and  his  wish  that  some 
person  should  be  elected  in  his  stead.  On  motion  made  and 
seconded — 

Resolved,  That  Wm.  Brockenbrough,  Esq.,  be,  &  he  is  here- 
by appointed  a  member  of  this  board  in  the  room  of  the  said 
Robert  Pollard. 

And  then  the  Board  adjourned. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  Vigilance  of  the  City  ot 
Richmond,  at  the  Eagle  Tavern,'*  on  Thursday,  the  i8th  day  of 
August,  1814. 

Present:  Dr.  Wm.  Foushee,  Wm.  Campbell,  Robert  Green- 
how,  Alex.  McRae,  Wm.  C.  Williams,  Wm.  Wirt,  James  Gibbon, 
John  &  Chs.  Ellis,  members  of  the  Comm'ee. 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  wait  on  the  Ex- 
ecutive and  on  the  commanding  officer  of  the  U.  States  stationed 
near  this  place,  to  ascertain  in  what  mode  this  committee  on  be- 
half of  the  citizens  of  Richmond  can  co-operate  most  effectually 
in  any  measures  which  may  be  adopted  for  the  defense  of  this 
City,  and  make  report  to  this  Committee  at  its  next  meeting. 

Resolved,  That  Dr.  William  Foushee,  Mr.  Wirt,  Mr.  McRae, 
Mr.  Williams  and  Major  Gibbon  be  appointed  a  committee  for 
the  above  purpose. 

Resolved,  That  the  above  Committee  be  requested  to  state  to 
the  Executive  in  the  most  urgent  manner,  thenecessity  of  calling 
out  immediately  a  strong  military  force  for  the  protection  of  this 
City  and  its  vicinity  against  a  threatened  attack  from  the  enemy. 


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NOTES. 

'  Dr.  William  Foushee.  Sr.,  of  a  Huguenot  family;  born  in  the 
Northern  Neck  of  Virginia,  October  26,  1749,  died  in  Richmond, 
August  2 1st,  1824,  was  long  one  of  the  most  eminent  physicians 
and  influential  citizens  of  this  city.  He  was  educated  at  Edin- 
burgh, served  occasionally  as  a  surgeon  during  the  Revolutionary 
War  (the  auditors  books  show  payments  to  him  for  such  services) ; 
was  Mayor  of  Richmond  1782;  member  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates  1 79 1,  1803-4,  and  probably  other  years,  and  member  of 

the  Council  of  State   1799-1805.      He  married ?  and  had 

five  children,  whose  names  are  known  to  me:  i.  Charlotte,  mar- 
ried William  Carter,  and  died  July  27,  1822,  aged  35;  2.  Marg- 
aret T.,  married  William  C.  Parker,  then  of  Gloucester  county, 
and  died  August  4,  1822;  3.  Isabella,  married  Thos.  Ritchie, 
founder  of  the  Richmond  Enquirer;  4.  Dr.  William,  Jr.,  called 
in  his  obituary  '*  youngest  son,'*  married  Lucy,  daughter  of 
Governor  Lawrence,  of  New  Jersey,  and  died  February  7,  1835, 
being  within  three  days  of  his  51st  birthday. 

The  Foushees  were  early  settlers  in  the  Northern  Neck.  James 
Fushee,  Richmond  county,  was  alive  in  1701.  John  Foshea, 
Richmond  county,  died  1733,  and  named  in  his  will,  his  wife  and 
son  John;  bequeathing  legacies  to  his  **  other  children.'* 

'  Major  James  Gibbon,  was  ensign  5th  Pennsylvania  Battalion, 
8  January,  1776;  taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Washington,  November 
16,  1776;  exchanged,  and  commissioned  first  lieutenant  6th  Penn- 
sylvania Battalion,  15  February,  1777.  He  was  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  forlorn  hope  at  the  storming  of  Stony  Point,  and 
received  the  thanks  of  Congress  and  promoted  to  a  captaincy. 
Soon  after  the  Revolution  he  removed  to  Richmond,  where  he 
was  for  many  years  collector  of  the  port.  He  died  July  i,  1835, 
in  his  77th  year.  He  lived  at  the  corner  of  5th  &  Main,  in  the 
house  (now  much  altered)  lately  the  residence  of  Rev.  Dr.  M. 
D.  Hoge. 

•John  Marshall,  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States. 

*  This  may  have  been  William  Campbell,  long  a  member  01 
the  House  of  Delegates  from  Bedford  county;  but  it  is  hardly 
probable. 


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*  Major  William  Price,  lieutenant  in  the  Virginia  Continental 
Line  in  the  Revolution  and  long  Register  of  the  State  Land 
Office. 

•Major  Archibald  Denholm,  captain  ist  Virginia  Regiment, 
and  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Hobkirks  Hill. 

'William  Wirt,  afterwards  Attorney  General  of  the  United 
States. 

•Philip  Norborne  Nicholas,  son  of  the  distinguished  Robert 
Carter  Nicholas  and  his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  Colonel  Wilson 
Cary,  and  brother  of  the  even  more  eminent  George  and  Wilson 
Cary  Nicholas.  He  was  a  judge  of  the  General  Court  and  died 
August  1 8,  1849.  He  married  first,  Mary  Spear,  and  second, 
Maria  Carter  Byrd,  and  left  issue  by  each  marriage. 

•  Thomas  Ritchie,  son  of  Archibald  Ritchie,  a  Scotch  merchant 
who  settled  at  Tappahannock,  Essex  county;  was  the.  founder 
and  long  the  distinguished  editor  of  the  Richmond  Enquirer^ 
and  the  * '  father  of  Democracy  * '  in  Virginia.  He  was  born 
November  5,  1778,  and  died  July  1 2,  1855.  By  his  marriage  with 
Isabella,  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Foushee,  he  had  issue:  i.  Isa- 
bella; 2.  William;  3.  Mary;  4.  Robert;  5.  Margaret;  6.  Thomas; 
7.  Charlotte;  8.  Ann  Eliza;  9.  Virginia;  10.  George.  His 
brother  Captain  John  Ritchie,  U.  S.  A.  was  killed  at  the  head  of 
his  company  at  the  battle  of  Lundys  Lane,  and  his  family  was 
voted,  by  the  Virginia  Legislature,  a  sword,  now  in  the  posses- 
sion of  Miss  Virginia  Ritchie,  of  "Upper  Brandon." 

'•William  Clayton  Williams,  eminent  lawyer  of  Richmond, 
son  of  William  Williams,  of  Culpeper  county.  He  married  Alice 
Grymes,  daughter  of  Lewis  Burwell,  of  Gloucester  county.  He 
was  grandfather  of  the  gallant  Colonel  Lewis  B.  Williams,  ist 
Virginia  Infantry,  C.  S.  A.,  who  was  killed  at  Gettysburg. 

"  Benjamin  Tate,  Mayor  of  Richmond  181 1. 

"Alexander  McRae,  son  of  Rev.  Christopher  McRae,  of 
Southam  Parish,  Cumberland  county;  was  prominent  as  a  law- 
yer and  as  a  member  of  the  Republican  party;  member  of  the 
House  of  Delegates  1803-4,  of  the  Council  1805,  and  Lieutenant 
Governor  of  Virginia.  He  married,  in  1807,  Nancy  Hayes,  of 
Richmond. 


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**  WashinT^lon  Tavern,  on  the  site  of  the  present  St.  Clair 
Hotel,  facing  the  Capitol  Square. 

"  Robert  Pollard,  of  the  firm  of  Pickett,  Pollard  and  Johnston, 
one  of  the  leading  mercantile  firms  of  Virginia.  He  died  in 
Richmond,  October  lo,  1842,  aged  87. 

**Camp  Randolph,  probably  at  Wilton,  then  a  seat  of  the 
Randolphs,  on  the  river  a  few  miles  below  Richmond.  Troops 
were  stationed  there  on  the  famous  *'  Pawnee  Sunday.*' 

"Robert  Greenhow,  Mayor  of  Richmond  18 13.  He  was  son 
of  John  Greenhow,  merchant,  of  Williamsburg  (a  native  of 
Staunton,  near  Kendal,  Westmoreland,  Eng.)  Many  well  known 
citizens  of  Richmond  are  his  descendants. 

*'John  Robinson  (i 773-1 850),  clerk  of  the  District  and  Cir- 
cuit Courts  of  Richmond  1797-1850.  The  eminent  Conway 
Robinson  was  his  son.  The  last  named  gentleman  the  Virginia 
Historical  Society  owes  perhaps  more  than  to  any  other  man 
who  has  been  connected  with  its  history. 

"Charles  Ellis,  father  of  several  well  known  and  honored  citi- 
zens of  Richmond.  One  of  these  sons,  the  late  Colonel  Thos. 
H.  Ellis,  stands  with  Conway  Robinson,  as  one  of  the  chief  bene- 
factors of  this  society.  It  is  well,  when  opportunity  offers,  to 
recall  the  services  of  such  men. 

"The  Eagle  Tavern  on  Main  street. 

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REMINISCENCES  OF  WESTERN  VIRGINIA, 
1770-1790. 


By  John  Redd,  Henry  county,  Va. 


(concluded.) 

Dr.  Walker.* 

Dr.  Thos.  Walker  was  principal  sergeon  in  Bradock  defeat  in 
1755.  I  think  in  the  year  1763,  Dr.  Walker  was  appointed  by 
the  Assembly  of  Va.  to  meet  with  a  commissioner  on  the  part 
of  N.  C.  to  extend  the  dividing  line  between  the  two  states. 
Dr.  Walkei  &  thecommbhioner  from  N.  C.  met  at  the  appointed 
time  &  place,  after  trying  for  some  time  to  settle  upon  the  de- 
gree to  run  the  line,  they  concluded  that  as  they  could  not  agree 
upon  the  degree,  that  each  commishioner  would  take  his  sur- 
veyor and  guard  and  run  his  own  line,  as  the  survey  had  to  be 
made  through  the  wilderness;  each  state  had  furnished  a  com- 
pany of  Malishy  to  guard  the  commishioner.  Dr.  Walker  & 
the  N.  C.  commisihioner  run  their  separate  lines  to  the  Cumber- 
land Mountains.  When  they  passed  the  valley  of  the  holston 
there  lines  were  some  3  or  4  miles  apart.  The  commishioners 
beyond  doubt  were  actuated  by  honorable  motives.  Dr.  Walk- 
er's line  bore  in  on  the  Virginia  side;  the  Line  of  the  N.  C.  com- 
mishioner bore  in  on  his  own  state,  the  state  of  Va.  extended 
her  jurisdiction  to  the  line  run  by  Dr.  Walker,  N.  C.  to  the  line 
run  by  her  commishioner,  the  gore  of  land  between  the  two 
lines  was  not  claimed  by  either  state  and  it  went  by  the  name 
of  the  free  state,  this  gore  of  land  soon  became  mutch  more 
thickly  settled  than  either  of  the  states  bordering  on  the  line,  the 
settlers  paid  no  taxes,  and  in  fact  were  subject  to  know  law,  except 
sutch  as  they  imposed  on  themselves,  the  free  state,  as  it  was 
called,  remained  independent  for  thirty  years  or  more,  until  the 
Legislature  of  Virginia  appointed  Gen.  Jos.  Martain  &  others  to 
meet  with  an  equal  number  of  commishioners  on  the  part  of  N. 
C,  and  settle  the  Stat  line,  the  commishioners  met  and  deter- 
mined to  split  the  gore  of  land  half  in  two. 


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I  was  intamately  acquainted  with  Dr.  Walker  and  never  herd 
of  any  exploreing  trip  that  he  made  to  Kentucky.  I  think  it 
more  than  probable  that  the  oragin  of  the  name  of  the  Cumber- 
lin  mountains,  river  &  gap,  originated  as  you  were  informed  by 
Col.  Wm.  Martain,  of  Tennessee,  but  it  must  of  occured  at  the 
time  that  Dr.  Walker  ran  the  State  line  in  1763,  for  his  line 
struck  nere  the  Cumberland  gap  and  at  that  time  that  country 
was  inhabited  entirely  by  Indians  who  were  vary  friendly  with 
the  whites. 

Dr.  Walker  had  the  reputation  of  being  a  highly  educated 
man  and  of  the  vary  highest  order  of  intellect,  and  no  man  bore 
a  more  irreproachable  caracter  than  he  did  up  to  the  day  of  his 
death. 

Col.  John  Montgomery.' 

Col.  Montgomery  commanded  a  company  during  the  whole 
of  Col.  Cristian*s  campaine  in  the  years  of  1776  &  77.  a  fiew 
years  afterwards  he  removed  to  the  State  of  North  Carolina  and 
served  in  the  legislature  of  that  State. 

Gen.  John  Severe. 

Gen.  Severe  commanded  a  company  in  Christians  campane 
on  account  of  his  great  knowledge  of  the  Indians  and  their  coun- 
try. Col.  Cristian  prevailed  upon  him  to  act  as  a  spy,  and  in 
that  cappasity  he  served  with  great  proficiency  untill  the  treaty 
with  the  Cherokee  Indians  in  July,  1777. 

Gen.  Thomas  Sumpter. 

Gen.  Sumpter  was  bom  &  raised  in  the  county  of  orange  in 
the  State  of  Virginia.  Some  years  before  the  revolutionary  war 
Sumpter  was  sent  by  order  of  the  Government  in  charge  of  sev- 
eral Indians  of  note,  to  England,  where  he  remained  for  some 
time  and  then  returned  home  with  his  red  companions.  I  sup- 
pose the  object  of  his  mishion  to  England,  was  that  the  Indians 
might  see  the  power  and  resources  of  the  British  Government, 
and  thereby  learn  the  folly  of  raising  their  army  against  their 
white  brethren  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic;  after  Sumpter  returned 
from  England  he  removed  to  South  Carolina  and  ther  established 
for  himself  a  reputation  which  is  obtained  by  but  fiew.  during  the 
revolutionary  war  he  bore  quite  a  conspickuous  part,  and  after 


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the  close  of  the  war  he  represented  his  state,  in  part,  in  con- 
gress as  long  as  he  chose  to  serve. 

Col.  Stephen  Trig.' 

Col.  Trig  was  paymaster  in  Cristian  cam  pane  against  the 
Cherokee  Indians  in  1776  &  7. 

Col.  Richard  Henderson.* 

Col.  Henderson  went  to  Kentucky  in  the  first  of  Aprile, 
1775,  with  about  40  men  to  make  a  settlement,  he  stopped  at 
Martain's  Station  in  Powels  vally  eight  or  ten  days,  and  pro- 
vided himself  with  a  good  supply  of  provisions,  and  then  pro- 
ceeded on  to  Kentucky.  I  do  not  know  the  location  of  his  set- 
tlement. 

Col.  Ab'm  Buford. 

Col.  Buford  was  raised  in  the  county  of  Culpepper,  in  Va.  in 
the  commencement  of  the  revolutionary  war  he  enlisted  in  the 
army  and  had  command  of  a  company  in  the  continental  line, 
his  career  in  that  memorable  war  has  been  recorded  in  the  his- 
tory of  his  country.  After  the  close  of  that  war  he  emmigrated 
to  Kentuck,  made  a  large  estate,  and  lived  there  until  his  death. 

Col.  Wm.  Cocke.* 

My  first  acquaintance  with  Col.  Cocke  was  in  July,  1776,  a 
fiew  days  after  the  battle  of  the  long  isleand  flats  of  holston.  Col. 
Cocke  had  commanded  in  that  battle.  Nothwithstandend  Col. 
Cocke  had  the  reputation  of  a  gallant  officer,  yet  at  the  battle  of 
the  holston  from  some  unaccountable  cause,  he  acted  in  sutch  a 
maner  as  to  gain  but  fiew  laurals.  Col.  Cocke  was  a  member  of 
the  legislature  of  Va.  after  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war. 

Capt.  Thom.  Maderson.' 

Capt.  Maderson  was  in  Cristian's  campane  in  1776  &  77.  he 
had  charge  of  all  the  military  stores  &  pack  horses,  the  duties  of 
Capt.  Madeson  were  vary  responsible,  for  Cristian  had  not  a 
single  wagon  during  the  campane  and  consequently  the  millitary 
stores  and  provisions  had  to  be  carried  entirely  on  pack  horses. 


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Colonel  Richard  Calloway. 

In  the  latter  part  of  the  Winter  1775,  or  early  in  the  Spring 
of  1776,  Col.  Calloway  came  by  Martains  Station  in  powels  val- 
ley, on  his  way  to  Kentucky.  I  do  not  reckolect  that  Calloway 
had  any  of  his  familly  along,  except  his  daughter,  betsy  Callo- 
way was  travelling  in  company  with  a  party  going  to  Kentucky, 
he  spent  one  day  ^  two  nights  at  the  station  &  then  proceeded 
to  Kentucky  &  settled  in  Boonsborough.  The  manner  in  which 
Calloway's  daughter  Betsy  in  company  with  Col.  Boons  daughters 
were  captured  by  the  Indians  near  Boonsborough  in  Kentucky, 
and  afterwards  retaken  by  there  farthers,  I  suppose  is  a  matter 
of  history  and  therefore  it  is  unnessessary  to  detail  in  this  sketch. 

Colonel  John  Donnolson. 

In  1774  Col.  Donnolson  was  conty  surveyor  of  what  was  then 
Pitsylvania  conty,  in  Virginia,  I  do  not  know  how  long  he  had 
been  acting  in  that  cappassity,  but  he  continued  surveyor  until 
about  the  year  1777,  about  which  time  he  removed  to  Kentucky. 

Colonel  James  Knox'  &  General  Benj.  Logan. 

In  March  1779  or  1780,  I  went  to  Kentucky  with  a  party  ot 
98  men,  the  party  set  out  from  the  block  house  on  the  North 
fork  of  holston  river.  About  the  time  of  our  setting  out,  Col. 
Knox  &  Gen.  Logan  who  were  going  to  Kentucky  and  had 
traveled  the  trace  several  times.  Col.  Knox  had  also  been  there 
and  in  fact  he  had  spent  several  years  in  rambling  in  the  fronteers. 
The  company  determined  to  place  themselves  under  the  com- 
mand of  Logan  &  Knox  while  going  through  the  wilderness. 

The  company  was  well  organized  and  with  a  fiew  exceptions 
obeyed  the  orders  of  there  commanders  in  every  respect,  when 
we  got  some  80  miles  beyond  the  Cumberland  Gap,  General 
Logan  discovered  a  man  on  horsback  coming  from  towards 
Kentuck,  when  the  man  got  with  in  about  100  yards  off,  Lo- 
gan remarked  that  he  knew  the  man  &  hors.  Logan  pulled  his 
hat  down  on  his  face,  so  as  to  avoid  being  reckognised  by  the 
man.  As  soon  as  the  horsman  came  up  oposite  to  Logan,  he 
jumped  at  the  fellow's  horse,  caught  him  by  the  bridal,  where 
upon  the  man  jumped  off  of  the  horse,  took  to  his  heels  &  was 


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soon  out  of  Sight.  Logan  said  that  he  knew  the  man  well  &  he 
was  the  greatest  rogue  that  he  ever  knew  and  that  the  rogue  had 
stolen  the  horse  from  his  station  in  Kentucky,  that  night  we  got 
with  in  20  miles  of  the  rackoon  spring.  In  our  company  there 
were  two  brothers  by  the  name  of  Finley,  these  men  during  our 
whole  trip,  had  manifested  vary  great  abhorrance  to  Millitary 
organisation,  they  had  acted  so  disorderly  during  our  journey 
that  they  had  become  vary  unpopular  with  the  whole  company. 
As  soon  as  we  took  up  camp  the  night  above  alluded  to,  the  two 
Finleys  swore  that  as  soon  as  the  moon  rose  they  would  leave 
the  company  and  set  out  by  themselves  for  Kentucky.  About 
two  o'clock  the  next  morning  the  finleys  set  out,  hollowing  back 
to  us  far  well  and  were  answered  by  our  whole  company. 

About  eleven  o'clock  on  the  same  day  that  the  Finlys  left  we 
discovered  two  men  some  distance  of  coming  towards  us  under 
whip  and  lash,  when  they  came  up  to  us,  to  our  great  surprise 
they  were  the  two  Finleys  who  had  left  us  that  morning,  they 
were  frightened  all  most  out  of  their  wits.  They  informed  us 
that  they  had  travelled  vary  leisurely,  until  they  got  to  the 
rackoon  spring  (20  miles  off)  one  hour  by  the  Sun,  there  they 
concluded  to  eat  a  snack,  and  let  there  horses  pick  some  cane 
around  the  spring,  while  there  they  heard  just  beyond  the  spring 
over  a  little  hill  a  great  many  guns  fire  and  a  terable  screaming 
&  holowing  where  upon  they  left  in  a  great  hurry.  They  said 
that  they  heard  the  guns,  screaming  and  hollowing,  when  they 
had  got  a  half  mile  or  more.  After  meeting  these  men  wee  pro- 
ceeded only  five  miles  farther  that  night,  which  brought  us  with 
in  tenn  miles  of  the  Rackoon  Spring,  after  this  the  two  Finleys 
were  amongst  the  most  orderly  men  in  the  Company.  The 
company  set  out  the  next  morning  and  passed  by  the  Rackoon 
Spring,  after  getting  over  a  little  hill  just  beyond  the  Spring  we 
discovered  from  the  tracks  of  horses  and  other  syns  that  a  large 
party  had  been  there  from  Kentucky,  some  of  their  number  had 
been  killed  by  the  Indians  and  were  laid  beside  a  log  and  covered 
up  with  brush,  logs  and  some  small  trees.  Knox  &  Logan  said 
from  all  they  could  discover  they  were  satisfied  that  those  who 
had  been  killed  were  some  who  were  tired  of  the  restraint  which 
they  were  subject  to  while  travelling  with  a  large  party  and  had 
broken  off  and  left  like  the  two  Finleys. 


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On  our  arrival  in  Kentucky,  we  learnt  that  a  party  of  men 
had  left  there  for  the  settlement;  they  encamped  five  miles  from 
the  rackoon  Spring,  the  morning  of  the  Massecre  eight  men 
determined  to  leave  the  company,  they  proceeded  to  near  the 
spring  and  five  of  them  were  killed  by  the  Indians,  while  the  2 
Finleys  were  at  the  Spring  the  three  who  escaped  returned  to 
their  companions,  who  came  up,  buried  the  dead,  and  turned  back 
to  Kentucky.  The  evening  of  the  day  after  the  Massacre  oc- 
curred, we  took  up  camp  about  three  quarters  of  a  mile  beyond 
the  Spring  on  the  edge  of  a  large  Mash.  The  next  morning  my 
hors  &  Mordaca  Hoards  were  missing,  a  party  of  men  were  sent 
out  in  search  of  the  horses,  they  hunted  until  vary  late  in  the 
morning  and  no  discovery  could  be  made,  the  conclusion  was 
that  the  horses  were  carried  off  by  the  Indians.  A  counsil  was 
held  and  it  was  determined  that  as  our  provisions  were  getting 
vary  scarce.  It  would  be  imprudent  to  delay  a  longer  time  in 
hunting  for  the  horses.  Gen.  Logan  offerd  Hoard  &  myself  the 
use  of  the  horse  he  had  taken  from  the  rogue  a  fiew  days  before, 
upon  which  we  could  carry  our  baggage.  Hoard  &  I  knew 
that  it  would  be  vary  inconvenient  for  us  with  our  baggage  to 
get  along  with  one  horse  and  believing  that  it  was  probable  that 
the  horses  were  not  captured  by  the  Indians,  I  determined  to 
take  one  more  hunt  for  the  horses  just  before  the  company 
started. 

Hoard  was  deposited  some  distance  in  the  March  on  a  small 
dry  nole,  I  took  the  horse  loned  us  by  Gen.  Logan,  the  com- 
pany agreed  to  go  but  a  short  distance  that  day  and  to  carry  our 
baggage  with  them.  I  turned  back  along  the  trace  some  half 
mile  beyond  the  Spring  and  could  see  no  sine  of  the  horses 
tracks.  I  then  turned  some  two  or  3  hundred  yards  from  the 
trace  and  struck  a  paralel  course  with  the  trace,  going  towards 
Kentucky.  When  I  got  some  250  yards  oposite  from  where 
the  Massecre  had  taken  place,  I  discoverd  where  the  Indians  had 
been  encamped,  previous  to  the  Massacre  from  the  large  pile 
of  ashes,  bones  and  pieces  of  skins  of  animals,  they  must  have 
been  there  several  weeks.  I  continued  my  course  parolel  with 
the  trace  and  just  oposite  where  wee  had  encamped  the  night 
before  I  discovered  the  horses  tracks,  after  following  for  a  short 
distance  I  satisfied  myself  that  they  were  not  carried  of  by  In- 


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dians,  after  following  the  tracks  some  mile  &  half  I  found  the 
horse  not  vary  far  from  trace  and  got  in  to  the  trace  ahead  of 
the  company.  I  soon  met  the  company,  gav«  Logan's  hors  up 
to  him  and  pushed  on  back  to  where  my  companion  Hoard  was. 
Wee  soon  rejoined  the  company  who  were  waiting  for  us,  wee 
went  some  five  miles  further  that  night  and  took  up  camp.  Con- 
tinued on  our  journey  until  wee  got  to  Logan's  station  and  there 
the  company  disbanded. 

The  Longhunters. 

I  think  you  are  laboring  under  a  mistake  in  regard  to  the 
longhunters.  From  your  letter  you  seem  to  be  labouring  under 
the  belief  that  the  longhunters  were  a  company  or  party  of  men 
who  at  a  very  early  period  made  an  exploring  or  hunting  expe- 
dition in  Kentucky.  I  was  acquainted  with  several  men  who 
were  called  long  hunters,  some  of  whome  I  was  intimately  ac- 
quainted with.  In  their  hunts  there  rarely  ever  went  more  than 
two  or  three  in  one  company,  there  reson  for  this  was  vary  ob- 
vious, they  hunted  in  the  Weston  part  of  Va.  &  Kentucky. 
The  country  they  hunted  in  was  roamed  over  by  the  Indians, 
and  a  small  party  could  conceal  them  selves  from  the  Indians, 
and  if  they  should  be  discovered  by  the  Indians  two  or  three 
men  would  not  be  so  apt  to  excite  the  fears  about  having  their 
game  killed  up,  besides  this  small  parties  were  mutch  more  suck- 
sesful  in  taking  game  than  large  ones.  The  long  hunters  rarely 
ever  remained  hunting  m  one  place  more  than  8  or  ten  days, 
after  hunting  in  one  place  several  days  the  game  becomes  rather 
shy.  Col.  Knox  may  have  gone  with  a  company  or  large  party 
of  long  hunters  to  Kentucky  at  a  vary  early  period,  but  this  I 
think  hardly  probable,  for  I  never  heard  of  sutch  an  expedition, 
and  besides  it  was  diferant  from  their  mode  of  hunting.  I  have 
know  doubt  but  what  Knox  was  a  long  hunter,  for  I  always  heard 
that  in  his  early  life  he  spent  most  of  his  time  on  the  frontier. 
The  long  hunters  usually  set  out  the  first  of  October,  each  man 
carried  two  horses,  traps,  a  large  suply  of  powder  &  led,  and  a 
small  hand  vise  and  bellows,  files  &  screw  plate  for  the  purpose 
of  fixing  the  guns  if  any  of  them  should  get  out  of  fix,  they  re- 
turned about  the  last  of  March  or  first  of  April.  I  will  now  give 
you  the  names  &  sircumstances  connected  with  those  long  hunt- 


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ers  that  I  now  reckollect.  Of  these  was  Elisha  Walden,  Wm. 
Carr,  Wm.  Crabtree,  James  Aldridge,  Wm.  Pitman,  Henry 
Scags.  • 

Elish  Waldin. 

In  1774,  Waldin  lived  in  the  conty  of  pitsilvana  (now  henry), 
on  Smiths  river.  Waldin  was  some  40  years  of  age  and  had 
been  a  long  hunter  for  many  years  before,  he  usually  hunted  on 
a  large  range  of  mountains  laying  to  the  east  of  powels  valley, 
and  from  Waldin  the  mountain  took  its  name,  and  to  this  day 
goes  by  the  name  of  Waldins  ridge.  Waldin  described  the 
ridge  and  the  surrounding  country  on  which  he  hunted  as 
abounding  in  almost  every  species  of  game,  the  animals  and 
birds  had  been  intruded  on  so  seldom  by  man  that  they  did  not 
fear  his  prasance,  but  rather  regarded  him  as  a  benefactor,  but 
they  soon  learnt  to  flee  from  his  preasance.  Waldin  always 
returns  home  with  his  horses  heavily  ladin  with  skins  and  furs. 

William  Car. 

Car  was  another  longhunter,  he  was  raised  in  the  conty  of 
Albemarl,  Va.,  and  at  a  vary  early  period  removed  to  the  fron- 
tier. In  1775  I  became  acquainted  with  him  in  powels  valley, 
he  lived  on  the  frontier  for  some  20  years  or  more  and  had  spent 
the  whole  time  in  hunting.  Carr  hunted  over  in  Kentucky  be- 
yond the  Cumberland  montaine  to  the  right  of  Cumberland  gap 
in  a  place  called  the  brush.  Car  always  returned  with  his  horses 
loded  with  fur  and  skins,  he  described  the  game  as  being  so 
gentle  that  the  animals  would  rarely  ever  run  from  the  report  of 
a  gun.  Car  was  the  most  venturesome  hunter  that  I  ever  knew, 
he  would  frequently  go  on  these  hunting  expeditions  alone. 
After  the  breaking  out  of  the  Indian  war  in  1776,  fiew  men  vent- 
ured on  these  long  hunts.  Car  determined  to  take  one  more 
long  hunt  and  as  no  one  would  go  with  him  he  determined  to  go 
alone,  accordingly  he  provided  himself  with  a  good  supply  of 
powder  and  led,  his  steel-trap,  two  good  horses  and  set  out  on  a 
long  hunt  and  was  never  heard  of  afterward,  he  was  no  doubt 
killed  by  the  Indians. 

Wm.  Crabtree  &  James  Aldridge  were  also  long  hunters.  I 
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connected  with  their  long  hunts,  this  Crabtre^f  must  be  the  one 
you  alluded  to  as  having  killed  an  Indian  at  some  hors  race.  I 
reckollect  of  having  heard  that  Wm.  Crabtree  killed  an  Indian 
somewhere,  but  reckollect  none  of  the  sercumstances. 

Wm.  Pitman  &  Henry  Scags. 

In  the  latter  part  of  february,  1776,  Pitman  &  Scags  came  to 
Martains  Station  in  Powels  valley,  they  were  returning  home 
from  a  long  hunt  which  they  had  taken  in  the  brush  the  North 
West  side  of  the  Cumberland  mountaine,  they  returned  earlier 
than  usual  and  their  reason  for  doing  so  was  that  they  had  seen 
a  great  smoke  some  distance  off  which  they  knew  was  Indians 
ring  hunting  and  besides  they  had  see  Indians  tracts  through  the 
woods  where  they  were  hunting,  where  upon  they  set  out  for 
home.  They  spent  some  8  or  10  days  at  the  station,  while  they 
were  with  us  they  showed  some  silver  oar  they  found  on  the  top 
of  a  little  hill  in  their  hunting  ground,  they  said  while  they  were 
hunting  a  snow  fel  som  12  or  18  inches  deep.  Scags  &  Pitman 
set  out  through  the  snow  to  kill  some  game,  after  going  some 
short  distance  from  their  camp  they  discovered  that  on  the  top 
of  a  certain  hill  there  was  no  snow  while  all  the  surrounding  hills 
were  covered  with  it,  this  led  them  to  go  up  on  the  hill  and  see 
the  cause  of  its  not  being  covered  with  snow  like  the  rest,  on 
ariveing  at  the  summit  of  the  hill  they  discovered  that  it  was 
covered  with  a  vary  heavy  kind  of  oar,  each  of  them  put  some 
of  the  oar  in  their  shot-bag,  and  returned  to  the  camp,  when 
they  arrived  at  the  camp  they  took  some  of  the  oar  and  by  means 
of  their  hand  bellows  and  some  thick  oake  barke  it  was  melted 
and  they  found  it  to  be  silver  oar,  they  brought  with  them  to 
Martain's  Station  the  silver  they  had  ex  tracked  &  some  of  the 
oar  the  silver  was  pronounced  by  all  who  saw  it  to  be  vary  pure. 

Scags  &  Pitman  were  said  to  be  men  of  high  sence  of  honor, 
and  vary  great  truth,  by  the  next  fall  the  war  with  the  Indians 
broke  out  and  they  went  no  more  on  their  long  hunts. 

You  ask  me  to  give  you  all  the  particulars  I  know  of  whites 
killing  Indians  or  Indians  killing  whites  between  the  peace  of 
1764  and  the  spring  of  1774.  I  no  nothing  of  these  murders  so 
as  to  state  them  to  you  with  anny  thing  like  sertainty.  I  will 
relate  one  or  two  murders  committed  by  Indians  in  the  year 


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1776-177 — .  In  the  Spring  of  1775  a  man  by  the  name  of  Jacob 
Luis  came  out  to  Martains  station  in  powels  valley,  he  had  with 
him  his  wife  and  seven  children,  some  of  the  men  at  the  station 
knew  Lewis  to  be  a  man  of  bad  caracter  and  he  was  ordered  by 
us  not  to  settle  near  the  station.  Lewis  accordingly  toock  his 
wife  and  children  and  returned  in  the  direction  of  the  settlement 
about  35  miles  and  bilt  him  a  small  cabin  near  the  head  of  stock 
creak,  and  there  lived  entirely  on  the  game  he  killed. 

In  the  first  of  June  1776  as  I  came  in  to  the  setdement  from 
Martains  station  I  called  by  and  informed  Lewis  that  the  Indians 
had  declared  war  and  advised  him  to  move  into  the  Settlement. 
Lewis  swore  that  he  was  in  no  danger,  for  the  Indians  would  never 
find  him.  In  the  following  July  when  I  returned  to  the  holston 
I  learnt  that  Lewis,  his  wife  and  7  children  had  during  my  absence 
been  all  killed  and  scalped  by  the  Indians. 

In  June,  1776,  when  the  Cherokee  Indians  declared  war,  most 
of  the  extreme  settlements  broke  up,  some  of  the  settlers  came 
in  to  the  settlement,  and  others  sheltered  themselves  in  forts 
nearer  the  settlement.  A  man  by  the  name  Abrose  Flutcher, 
who  had  settled  in  Martains  Station,  took  refuge  in  Blackamors 
fort.  Flucher  had  a  wife  &  two  children,  after  he  had  remained 
in  the  fort  for  a  fiew  days,  the  fort  became  so  mutch  crowded 
that  he  bilt  a  little  cabin  just  back  of  the  fort  (not  more  than  30 
or  40  yards)  and  moved  into  it.  shortly  after  Flutcher  moved 
to  his  cabin,  he  went  out  one  moment  some  short  distance  to  a 
cane  break  to  get  his  horse,  on  returning  he  found  his  wife  & 
two  children  tomahawked  and  scalped  by  the  Indians.  I  sup- 
pose the  Indians  who  murdered  Fluchers  wife  &  children  must 
have  been  a  small  party  sent  out  to  reconnorter  the  fort,  for  I 
heard  of  no  attack  being  made  upon  it  at  that  time.  In  nov., 
1776,  when  Col.  Cristian  destroyed  the  7  Indians  towns,  in  the 
house  of  one  of  their  noted  cheafe  *  *  (Draggon  Canoe)  we 
found  7  *  *  *  hanging  up  nicely  painted  and  put  in  * 
hoops  and  just  in  front  of  the  town  a  stake  to  which  Draggon 
Canoe  had  a  short  time  before  bound  a  small  boy  and  burnt  him 
entirely  up,  and  while  the  boy  was  burning  the  Indians  held  a 
great  war  dance,  the  stake  and  the  yard  where  they  held  their 
dance  was  all  vary  fresh  when  the  Indians  came  in  to  make  peace. 
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come  in  himselfe  for  the  whites  were  so  much  incensed  with  him 
on  accont  of  his  many  crueltys,  that  he  would  have  been  mur- 
dered as  soon  as  he  made  his  appearance. 

NOTES. 

*  Dr.  Thomas  Walker,  of  Louisa  county,  and  afterwards  of 
**  Castle  Hill,"  Albemarle,  was  born  in  King  and  Queen  county, 
January  25,  1715,  and  died  November  9,  1794.  He  removed  to 
Louisa  county,  in  or  before  1745.  where  he  was  appointed  a  jus- 
tice of  that  county;  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
from  the  same  county  in  1757  and  1758,  and  from  Albemarle  in 
1765,  1769,  and  probably  in  other  years.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Convention  in  1775,  and  of  the  State  Council  in  1776. 
Dr.  Walker  had  an  extensive  acquaintance  with  Indians  and  In- 
dian affairs  and  was  frequently  employed  on  business  connected 
with  them.  He  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  to  treat 
with  the  Indians  at  Fort  Stanwix  and  at  Pittsburg,  and  in  1778 
was  a  commissioner  to  perform  the  difficult  task  of  running  the 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina  boundry  line  westward.  In  1750, 
he  made  an  exploring  expedition  into  Kentucky,  which  it  seems 
strange  was  unknown  to  an  old  frontiersman  like  Major  Redd. 
It  was  described  in  Dr.  Walker's  Journal,  which  has  been  pub- 
lished by  the  Filson  Club,  of  Kentuckv.  A  sketch  of  Dr. 
Walker's  life  and  an  account  of  his  family  is  given  in  "The  Page 
Family  of  Virginia"  (and  connected  families),  by  R,  C.  M. 
Page,  M.  D.,  of  New  York.  A  note  on  the  family,  containing 
copies  of  entries  in  a  family  Bible  was  printed  in  this  Magazine, 

IV,  357-358. 

•Colonel  John  Montgomery  was  brobably  the  person  of  the 
name  who  in  1794  resided  at  Clarksville,  Tenn.,  and  in  that  year 
was  one  of  the  commanders  of  the  successful  expedition  against 
the  Cherokees  at  Nickajact.  He  could  hardly  have  been  the 
same  man  as  Lt. -Colonel  John  Montgomery,  a  native  of  Bote- 
tourt county,  who  distinguished  himself  under  George  Rogers 
Clark,  and  who  is  stated,  when  a  resident  of  southwestern  Ken- 
tucky, to  have  been  killed  by  the  Indians  in  Nov.,  1794. 

*  Colonel  Stephen  Trigg  was  appointed  a  justice  of  Botetourt 
county  in  1769,  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  1775,  for 
Fincastle,  and  went  to  Kentucky  in  1779  as  one  of  the  Virginia 


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land  commissioners.  In  1780  he  settled  Triggs  Station,  four 
miles  from  Harrodsburg,  was  one  of  the  trustees  to  lay  out  Louis- 
ville, and  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates  from 
Kentucky  county.  In  1781  he  was  one  of  the  justices  who  held 
the  first  court  in  Kentucky,  at  Harrodsburg,  January  16,  and  in 
the  same  month  was  appointed  colonel  of  the  Lincoln  county 
militia.  On  August  16,  1782,  he  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Blue 
Licks.     Trigg  county,  Kentucky,  was  named  in  his  honor. 

*  Colonel  Richard  Henderson  (1734-1785),  a  native  of  Han- 
over county,  Virginia,  and  citizen  of  North  Carolina,  who  or- 
ganized the  ''Transylvania  Land  Company,*'  and  was  a  judge 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  North  Carolina. 

*  Colonel  William  Cocke,  son  of  Abraham  Cocke,  of  Amelia 
county,  was  born  in  1747,  and  died  August  22,  1828.  He  was 
an  early  pioneer  of  Kentucky,  active  in  the  formation  of  the 
"State  of  Franklin,*'  and  afterwards  of  Tennessee,  served  in 
two  wars,  the  Revolution,  in  which  he  was  captain,  and  the  War 
of  1812,  in  which  he  volunteered,  though  an  old  man,  and  was 
a  member  of  legislature  in  four  States,  Virginia,  North  Carolina, 
Tennessee  and  Mississippi.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates  from  Washington  county,  in  1777,  and  was 
United  States  senator  from  Tennessee,  1796-7,  1799-1805.  He 
was  afterwards  a  judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Tennessee,  and 
later  removed  to  Mississippi,  where  he  died.  A  memoir  of  his 
life  was  published  in  the  "American  Historical  Magazine," 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  July,  1896;  and  a  more  condensed  sketch 
appears  in  The  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography, 
IV,  443.  &c. 

'General  Thomas  Madison,  of  Botetourt  county,  .son  of  John 
Madison,  long  clerk  of  Augusta  county,  served  as  a  captain  in 
the  **  Cherokee  Expedition  **  (payments  to  him  as  captain  appear 
in  the  State  records).  He  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of  State 
of  Virginia,  1789-90,  and  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  1793  (and 
probably  other  years),  and  a  general  of  Virginia  militia.  He 
married  Susanna,  sister  of  Patrick  Henry. 

'  Colonel  James  Knox  was  a  member  of  the  Virginia  legisla- 
ture, from  Jefferson  county  (Kentucky),  1788,  and  of  the  Ken- 
tucky State  senate,  from  Lincoln  county,  1 795-1800. 


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VIRGINIA  MILITIA  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 

(continued.) 


1777.  Sept.  10.  Cobbs,  Edmund,  for  waggon  hire  with  the 
Albemarle  Militia,  ^  acco',  £1^,  10.  — . 

1 1.  Carrington,  George,  Jun^  for  pay  &c.,  as  Major  of  Cum- 
berland Ditto  &  sundries,  ^acc*,  71.  4.  11. 

Coles,  Walter,  for  drums  &  sundries  furnished  Halifax  Militia, 
^  acc\  41.  9.  5. 

Cobbs,  James,  for  colours,  &c.,  ditto  ditto,  14.  8.  — . 

Chew,  Harry,  for  pay  as  Adjutant  to  Spotsylvania  Ditto,  4.  4. 

13.  Cabell,  Capt.  Joseph,  for  waggon  hire  to  the  Amherst 
Ditto,  18.  — .  — . 

Collier,  Charles,  for  pay  as  Commissary,  &c.,  for  Prince  Ed- 
ward Militia,  ^  acco',  7.  18.  — . 

Childers,  Joel,  for  flour  furnished  ^  Capt.  Robert  Harris, 
Cert.,  — .  16.  8. 

15  Carrington,  George,  Sen',  for  Bacon  furnished  the  Buck- 
ingham Militia,  ^  acco*,  5.  i.  — . 

17.  Clarke,  Capt.  Zachariah,  for  pay,  &c.,  for  his  Guard  at 
Hanover  Magazine  to  7th  Int.,  225.  14.  4. 

19.  Craig,  Capt.  John,  for  Ditto  comp'  of  Spotsylvania 
Militia  ^  acco*,  178.  14.  8. 

Cluverius,  Capt.  Gibson,  for  Ditto  Gloucester  Ditto,  ^  acco*, 
242.  8.  5. 

Chisman,  Lieut.  Edmund,  for  Ditto  York  Ditto,  ^  acco*,  44. 

9.  9. 

24.  Cary,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  Ditto  Warwick  Ditto,  ^  acco', 
34.  II.  10. 

[Here  part  of  a  page  is  torn  off.] 

Nov'  I.  Crookshanks,  John,  for  provisions  furnished  Dunmore 
Militia,  ^  acco\  4.  13.  — . 

Cannady,  Thomas,  for  waggon  hire  with  Brunsw*  Militia,  ^ 
acco*,  16.  10.  — . 


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4.  Cralle,  Capt.  John,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  his  comp^  Northumb** 
Ditto,  ^  acco',  23.  3.  8. 

5.  Carter  Bans  and  others,  for  Guns  and  provisions  furnished 
Ditto,  ^  acco\  5.  3.  3. 

8.  Campbell,  Arthur,  for  pay  of  the  Washington  Militia,  &c. , 
^  acco',  1,917.  II.  9. 

10.  Carrington,  Paul,  for  sundry  persons  for  prov',  &c.,  for 
Charlotte,  &c..  Militia,  ^  acco*,  39.  14.  10^. 

11.  Carrington,  George,  for  two  Rifles  purchased  for  the 
public  use,  ^  acco',  6.  — .  — . 

Cocke,  William,  for  sundry  persons  for  provisions,  &c.,  for 
Cherokee  exped",  23.  14.  6. 

Coutts,  William,  for  ferriages  to  the  Bedford  Militia,  ^  acco*, 
I.  — .  — . 

17.  Cary,  William,  for  Bread  famished  the  Militia,  ^  acco* 
&  certif.,  4.  I.  7. 

18.  Clarke,  George  Roger,  for  pay  of  self  as  Major  &  sundry 
persons,  ^  acco*,  927.  13.  7. 

Cannon,  Capt.  John,  for  pay  of  his  Comp^  of  Princess  Anne 
Militia,  ^  acco',  20.  12.  8. 

19.  Cowper,  Roe,  for  pay  as  Major  to  Elizabeth  City  Militia, 
^  acco*  &  cer*,  14.  6.  — . 

Cowley,  Capt.  Abraham,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  a  Guard  at  Richmond 
to  the  17th  ins*  inch,  199.  16.  ij^. 

26.  Cole,  Capt.  Abraham,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'  of  Nanse- 
mond  Militia,  ^  acco*.  161.  — .  4. 

Dec.  10.  Cabell,  William,  for  sundry  persons  for  furnished 
Amherst  Ditto,  ^  acco*,  19.  13.  i. 

13.  Cannon,  John,  for  Ditto  Yohogania  Ditto,  &c.,  ^  acco', 
610.  19.  3. 

15.  Cloyd,  Joseph,  for  Ditto  Montgomery  Ditto,  &c.,  ^ 
acco*,  1,337.  16,  gyi. 

17.  Coggin,  John,  for  Cart  hire  with  the  Southampton  Ditto, 
^  acco*,  2.  10.  — . 

20.  Clarke,  Capt.  Zachariah,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  his  Guard  at 
Hanover  Mag. ,  ^  acco',  202.  1 2.  — . 

26.  Campbell,  William,  for  provisions  furnished  Militia,  ^ 
acco*,  2.  8.  9. 


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Dec'r  31.  Corprew,  Capt.  George  D.,  for  provisions  fur- 
nished a  party  of  Princess  Anne  Militia,  ^  accot.,  £^0,  18.  7. 

1778.  Jan*y  5.  Cowley,  Capt.  Abraham,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  a 
Guard  at  Richmond,  to  Dec*r  i6th.  inclus.,  139.  7.  11 J^. 

12.  Cary,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  Ditto,  his  comp'  of  Warwick 
Militia,  ^  acco\  24.  19.  6. 

Carter,  Charles,  for  sundry  ferriages  to  Chesterf**,  &c..  Ditto, 
^  acco*,  2.  7.  — . 

19.  Cross,  Jonathan,  Ensign,  for  pay  &  Expenses  Nansemond 
Militia,  ^  acco*,  18.  17.  3>^. 

22.  Christophers,  Henry,  for  carting  for  Northumberland 
Ditto,  ^  acco*,  — .  10.  — . 

23.  Crouch,  Capt.  John,  for  difference  of  pay  for  2d  Lieut. 
(see  Acco'  27th  Sept.  last),  6.  14.  — . 

24.  Calloway,  Richard,  for  services  for  Kentucky  Militia,  ^ 
acco*,  28.  7.  ID. 

Carr,  William,  for  sundries  furnished  Prince  William  Ditto,  ^ 
acco\  IOC.  — .  6. 

Feb'  19.  Camp,  Mary,  for  Straw  furnished  the  Militia,  ^ 
acco*  &  cer*,  2.  10.  — . 

Mar.  12.  Clarke,  Capt.  Zachariah,  for  pay,  &c.,ofthe  Mag. 
Guard  in  Hanover,  to  7th  ins',  165.  11.  — . 

April  2.  Craig,  John,  for  additional  allowance  for  Waggon 
hire  (see  acco' sett**  the  8th  &  19  Sept.  last),  15.  5.  — . 

22.  Coleman,  Robert,  Provisions  for  Culpeper  Militia,  13. 
18.  8. 

May  19.  Childers,  Major,  for  a  Horn  Pouch  &  Gun  furnished 
Pittsylvania  Militia,  3.  — .  — .    ' 

20.  Cox.  George,  for  pay  as  a  spy,  3.  10.  — . 

25.  Cornick,  Capt.  Henry,  for  pay  Princess  Anne  Militia, 
22.  6.  — . 

Coffey,  Osburn,  for  the  use  of  a  Rifle,  i .  — .  — . 

27.  Cobbs,  James,  Capt.,  for  Boat  hire  conveying  his  O  Mili- 
tia from  Portsmouth,  8.  — -,  — . 

[Here  part  of  a  page  is  torn  off.] 

Octr.  8.  Cunningham,  Capt.  Jno.,  for  a  Drum  &  Fife  for 
Augusta  Militia,  3.  12.  — . 

9.     Coutts,  William,  for  Ferriages,  — .  15.  4. 


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13.      Christian.  Colo.   William,   for  cattle  pur- 
chased for  the  Cherokee  Indians  &  for  Expenses, 
&c..  running  the  Indian  Line,  ^2276.   11.  8.,  in-  [^132.  6.  8. 
eluding  ;^2,ooo  rec'd  of  the  Treasurer  &  ;^i44.  5. 
for  cattle  sold.     Ball*  due  him,  i 

Coles,  John,  for  Bacon  for  Halifax  Militia,  30.    o.  — . 

bal",  69.  II.  — . 

Cr.  99.  II.  — . 

By  Cash  of  Nath'  Terry,  £9^,  10.  -•  1  /-^q    „    _ 
I  gun  sold,  5.  I.  — .  )  x>vy- 

23.     Clayton,  Thomas  Whiting,  for  Pay  as  Lt.  1 
in   Capt.  Jasper   Clayton's   Comp^  of  Gloucester's.  7.  5. 
Militia  in  17  Septr.,  1777,  by  resolv.  of  Assembly,  ) 

28.  Campbell,  Colo.  Arthur,  for  Pay,  Provisions,  &c.,  for 
Washington  Militia,  ^  Pay  Roll  Cert.,  1824.  12.  7. 

Do.  Do.,  for  Cash  advanced  Henry  Smith,  Commiss'  to  Ken- 
tucky, ^  Rec',  63.  4.  — . 

Novr.  6.  Clarkson,  Jesse,  for  addition'  Allowance  Wagon 
hire  (see Capt.  Joseph  Haden*s  Acco*  settled  27  Sepr.,  1777,)  5. 

5-  — . 

7.     Choate,  Auston,  for  horse  hire.  ^  Certe.,  6.  17.  6. 

28.  Clay,  Ezekiel  &  Daniel,  14  Days  pay  each  as  Militia  Men 
^  Cert.,  I.  17.  4. 

Clay,  Michael,  as  a  Spy  in  Montgomery  County,  ^  Cert.,  3. 
10.  — . 

Dec*r  3.  Crocket,  Walter,  for  horse  hire,  &c.,  Fincastle  Mi- 
litia, f^  Certes.,  10.  8.  6. 

Cox,  Gabriel,  for  Provisions,  issuing  &  Express  Yeohogany 
Do.,  f.  Do.,  I.  7.  — . 

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VIRGINIA  IN  1628. 


The  Tobacco  Monopoly. 


(Abstracts  from  the  British  Public  Record  Office,  by  W.  N.  Sainsbury.) 


[The  Publication  Committee  of  this  Society  has  heard  with 
much  pleasure  that  Mr.  Alexander  Brown,  the  author  of  the 
'  *  Genesis,  * '  and  '  *  First  Republic, ' '  and  a  member  of  the  Society, 
possesses  full  copies  of  all  documents  of  importance  relating  to 
Virginia  history  during  the  period  1607-1627,  which  are  to  be 
found  in  the  public  and  private  records  of  England.  These  he 
proposes  to  publish  at  some  future  time.  As  full  copies  are,  of 
course,  of  much  greater  value  than  abstracts,  the  Committee  has 
determined  not  to  anticipate  Mr.  Brown's  publication;  but  to 
stop  the  continuous  publication  of  the  Sainsbury  Abstracts,  and 
begin  again,  in  this  number  of  the  Magazine^  with  those  of  the 
year  1628.] 

Gov.  West,  and  Council  to  Sir  Robt.  Heath. 

James  City,  Feby.  27,  162^. 
Governor  Francis  West  and  the  Council  of  Virginia  to  Sir 
Robert  Heath,  the  King's  attorney  General.  On  receipt  of  his 
Maj"  letter  and  other  instructions  from  himself  (see  Nov'.,  1627), 
They  immediately  caused  divers  ships  to  be  stayed  that  were 
ready  to  depart,  and  altho'  they  could  not,  the  tobacco  being 
already  put  aboard,  try  the  goodness  of  the  same,  or  contract 
for  it  on  his  Maj'  behalf,  they  had  delivered  to  them  invoices  of 
the  several  quantities  laden  aboard  &  they  have  taken  security 
for  landing  the  same  at  the  port  of  London.  Have  given  orders, 
in  obedience  to  the  King's  commands,  that  the  Burgesses  should 
shortly  be  assembled  at  James  City,  that  by  the  general  and 
unanimous  voice  of  the  whole  Colony  his  Majesty  may  receive  a 
full  answer  to  the  several  points  concerning  their  tobacco,  and 
as  they  will  be  more  willing  that  his  Maj.  reap  the  benefit  of  their 
labours  than  any  other,  so  they  hope  his  Maj.  will  commiserate 
their  poor  estate  and  admit  their  just  requests  in  those  particu- 
lars, without  which  it  is  evident  to  them  they  cannot  subsist  and 


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do  otherwise  fear  the  immediate  decay  and  misery  of  the  whole 
Colony.  The  goodness  of  their  tobacco  shall  far  exceed  that 
formerly  gone  from  hence.  Implore  his  Maj:  to  admit  of  such  a 
quantity,  whereby  they  may  be  able  to  sustain  themselves,  the 
excessive  rates  of  commodities  here  being  considered  and  that  the 
Colony  hath  lately  received  an  increase  of  one  thousand  persons 
and  the  abundance  of  wares  this  year  imported  hath  so  deeply 
indebted  the  planters  to  the  merchants.  The  King*s  letters 
received  but  five  days  since,  and  Mr.  Capps  being  absent  after 
the  arrival  of  the  ships  fourteen  days,  on  what  pretence  they 
know  not,  they  could  not  by  any  other  means  come  to  any  par- 
ticular information  concerning  the  other  matters,  but  they  con- 
ceive the  price,  his  Maj.  will  be  free  of  customs  &  all  charges, 
freight  excepted.  Will  advertise  him  by  Capt.  Preen  of  the  rest 
of  those  things  of  which  they  can  now  say  nothing.  Desire  his 
favour.  They  want  the  means  and  not  the  wills  to  raise  those 
staple  commodities  proper  for  this  Plantation,  the  charges  of 
which  should  rather  be  supported  by  a  royal  hand  sustaining  us 
than  by  the  weak  and  poor  estates  of  the  planters.  Signed  by 
Francis  West,  John  Pott,  Roger  Smyth,  Wm.  Claybourne, 
Wm.  Tucker,  &  Sam.  Mathews.  Certified  copy  by  Robert 
Harrington ,  cler.     2  pp.  (^Colonial  Papers,  V^ol.  4,  No.  40.) 


Governor   West  and   Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 

James  City,  March  4,  1628. 

Governor  Francis  West  and  the  council  of  Virginia  to  the 
Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 

Have  received  their  Lordship'  letters  concerning  George 
Sandys  petition  against  themselves  in  reference  to  certain  ten- 
ants and  goods  belonging  to  the  late  company  since  November, 
1623,  but  which  Sandys  enjoyed  during  his  stay  in  the  colony, 
tho'  his  three  years  commission  (which  he  refused  to  show), 
expired  in  Oct.,  1624,  Explain  the  grounds  of  their  order  about 
same.  Sandys  two  years  absence  from  the  colony  and  his  not 
purposing  to  return,  and  he  himself  at  his  going  away  refusing 
to  execute  his  office  of  Treasurer,  saying  he  had  nothing  to  do 
with  it.  He  might  have  had  remedy  if  he  would  from  Capt. 
Whitaker,  who  presently  departed  the  country  unquestioned  to 


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the  great  damage  of  those  to  whom  the  moity  belonged,  signed 
by  PVancis  West,  John  Pott,  Roger  Smyth,  Sam.  Mathews, 
Wm.  Claybourne,  Sc  Wm.  Tucker.  2  pp.  (^Colonial  Papers, 
Vol.  4,   No.  41.) 


Commission  to  Governor  Harvey  and  the  Council 
OF  Virginia. 

March  22,  162^^. 

Commission  reciting  a  previous  commission  of  26  Aug.,  '22. 
Jac.  I.  (which  see)  to  Sir  George  Yeardley  and  appointing  John 
Harvey,  Esq.,  Governor  of  Virginia,  to  execute  the  same  as 
fully  as  any  Governor  resident  there  within  the  space  of  three 
years  last  past,  and  Francis  West,  George  Sandys,  John  Pott, 
Roger  Smyth,  Ralph  Hamor,  Samuel  Mathews,  Abraham  Pier- 
sey.  Will.  Claybourne,  Will.  Tucker,  Jabes  Whitaker,  Edward 
Blany  and  Will.  Ferrar,  the  Council — and  William  Claybourne, 
the  secretary  of  State  in  the  colony,  with  this  mem : 

*'This  is  only  the  renewing  of  a  former  commission  to  sir 
George  Yeardley,  deceased,  and  others,  with  this  alteration,  that 
the  said  John  Harvey  is  herein  nominated  to  be  Governor  in  the 
room  of  Sir  George  Yeardley. ' ' 

{Sign  Manual  Charles  /,  Vol.  6,  No.  66.) 


Petition  of  Governor,  Council  and  Burgesses  to  the 

King. 

March  26,  1628. 

Petition  of  the  Governor  and  Council  together  with  the  Bur- 
gesses assembled  in  Virginia  to  the  King.  They  have  according 
to  his  maj.  command  assembled  themselves  and  returned  answer 
that  they  shall  be  willing  to  accept  for  their  tobacco  delivered  in 
the  colony  three  shillings  and  six  pence  per  pound,  and  in  Eng- 
land four  shillings,  one  half  to  be  paid  at  ten  days,  the  other 
half  at  three  months,  desiring  his  maj.  to  take  in  certainty 
500,ix>o  wt.  yearly  and  if  they  make  more,  that  they  may  export 
it  in  to  other  parts,  the  custom  being  paid.  Implore  the  King 
to  commiserate  their  poor  estate,  having  continually  for  six  years 
groaned  under  the  oppression  of  unconscionable  and  cruel  mer- 
chants by  the  excessive  rates  of  their  commodities,  caused  for 


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the  most  part  by  unreasonable  and  unjust  contracts,  made  wholly 
without  their  consents  to  the  unspeakable  prejudice  of  this  colony ; 
that  they  want  the  means  and  not  the  wills  to  raise  those  staple 
commodities  proper  for  this  plantation,  which  now  they  hope  by 
the  beams  of  his  maj.  favour  reflected  upon  them  will  recover  a 
new  life  and  receive  perfection  by  his  Royal  hand.  Certified 
copy  by  Robert  Barrington,  cler,  (^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  4,  No. 
44.)  

Answer  of  the  Governor,  Council  and  Burgesses  to 

THE  King. 

March  26,  1628. 

Answer  of  the  Governor  and  Council  together  with  the  Bur- 
gesses of  the  several  Plantations  assembled  in  Virginia  to  his 
Maj.  letter  concerning  our  tobacco  and  other  commodities. 
The  making  of  any  contract  upon  their  tobacco  hath  been 
hitherto  a  thing  so  much  feared,  and  the  very  name  a  terror  and 
discouragement  to  the  whole  Colony,  the  bare  rumour  whereof 
hath  wrought  so  evil  an  effect  as  generally  to  dishearten  all  men, 
especially  seeing  all  contracts  have  hitherto  been  made  without 
their  consents.  Notwithstanding  they  have  continually  been 
ensnared  in  thebe  toils,  and  for  these  six  years  have  perpetually 
laboured  in  the  confused  paths  of  these  labyrinths,  they  return 
their  humblest  thanks  to  his  Maj.  for  dissolving  these  contracts, 
and  in  particular  for  the  prohibition  of  all  Spanish  tobacco,  that 
thereby  they  might  have  a  certain  and  sure  dependence  with 
the  Kingdom  of  England,  which  is  so  firm  a  foundation  for  the 
perpetual  subsistence  of  this  Colony,  which  hath  now  no  less 
flourished  since  the  alteration  and  revoking  of  the  Patent  than 
when  their  affairs  were  managed  by  those  in  England.  They 
consent  and  agree  that  his  Maj.  shall  have  all  their  tobacco  at 
the  rate  of  three  shillings  and  six  pence  the  pound  clear,  to  be 
delivered  here  (in  Virginia)  to  his  maj.  factors  good  &  merchant- 
able, to  make  payment  the  one-half  after  ten  days,  the  other 
moity  at  three  months,  if  to  be  delivered  at  the  Port  of  London 
then  to  have  four  shillings  per  lb.  clear  of  all  customs.  That  his 
maj.  take  500,000  weight  yearly,  for  seven  years,  and  that  any 
overplus  they  may  export  after  paying  custom.      Desire  that 


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Spanish  tobacco  be  utterly  prohibited.  Effectual  courses  which 
they  have  taken  to  make  their  tobacco  very  good  and  merchant- 
able, much  exceeding  their  former  tobacco.  Touching  the  mod- 
erating, the  quantity  they  desire  it  may  be  considered  that  tobacco 
is  the  only  means  for  their  present  supportation  and  subsistance, 
to  which  nevertheless  they  are  not  so  much  wedded  as  wholly  to 
neglect  the  raising  of  staple  commodities.  And  concerning  the 
quantity  of  two  hundred  pounds  for  a  master  of  a  family  and 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  for  every  servant,  the  colony  now 
consisting  of  near  three  thousand  persons,  or  shortly  being  likely 
to  attain  that  number,  that  quantity  is  not  sufficient  for  their 
maintenance,  and  last  year  there  was  more  sent  hence,  yet  that 
proportion  allowing  that  these  five  hundred  freemen  and  masters 
of  families  will  amount  to  412,500  lbs.  Reasons  they  cannot 
accept  of  the  proposed  conditions  of  payment  of  one  third  in 
hand  and  the  rest  at  five  and  five  months.  There  are  plentiful 
materials  for  making  of  pitch  and  tar.  Have  sent  home  samples 
of  ordinary  pine-trees — difficulties  of  great  charges  for  the  full 
accomplishment  of  that  work.  No  man  now  in  the  country  that 
knoweth  how  to  make  potashes.  There  are  many  hundred  casks 
gone  into  England  from  all  parts  of  the  country  made  of  their 
timber.  The  freight  if  so  mean  a  commodity,  too  dear  to  en- 
courage any  to  go  in  hand  with  it.  Have  sent  home  iron  from 
the  mine,  but  this  work  requires  an  excessive  charge  to  bring  it 
to  perfection  which  they  cannot  disburse.  The  materials  formerly 
sent  over  almost  totally  consumed,  and  at  the  massacre  thrown 
into  the  river  by  the  Indians,  so  there  will  be  need  of  a  supply 
of  workmen  and  materials.  Conceive  there  is  great  hope  of 
good  silver  and  copper  thro'  the  richness  of  the  mountains. 
There  was  a  discovery  made  nineteen  years  since,  in  the  which 
some  of  them  were  and  about  four  days  journey  above  the  falls 
of  this  river,  as  they  are  informed,  certain  assurance  of  a  silver 
mine.  They  conceive  that  the  planting  of  vines  will  prove  a 
commodity,  both  beneficial  and  profitable,  but  none  of  them  are 
skilful  therein.  The  vinerons  sent  over  spent  their  time  to  small 
purpose  and  either  purposely  neglected  or  concealed  their  skill, 
should  think  themselves  happy  to  bring  this  commodity  to  per- 
fection and  would  be  glad  to  defray  the  charges  of  skilful  men  to 
be  sent  over  for  that  purpose.     Great  likeliness  of  the  certainty 


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of  bay  salt,  the  benefit  that  will  thereby  accrue  to  the  colony  will 
be  great,  and  they  shall  willingly  assist  Mr.  Capps  in  making  his 
experiment,  which  brought  to  perfection  will  draw  a  certain  trade 
to  them.  And  they  hope  that  the  fishing  upon  their  coasts  will 
be  very  near  as  good  as  that  of  Canada.  Certified  copy  by 
Robert  Barrington,  cler,  7  pp.  ( Colonial  Papers,  Vol  4,  No. 
45.)  

Petition  of  the  Governor,  Council  and  Burgesses  to 
THE  Privy  Council. 

March  26,  1628. 

Petition  of  the  Governor,  Council,  and  Burgesses  assembled 
by  order  from  his  Maj.  in  Virginia,  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 
Council. 

Have  by  their  general  declarations  returned  answer  to  his  Maj. 
letter  concerning  the  commodity  of  tobacco  to  be  to  his  own  im- 
mediate use,  and  requiring  them  to  contract  for  the  same  upon 
the  prices  &  conditions  therein  mentioned,  and  have  complained 
that  formerly,  by  the  sinister  suggestions  and  projects  of  uncon- 
scionable men,  to  make  a  contract  on  their  goods  without  their 
consents,  they  have  a  long  time  suffered  much  damage  and  the 
Colony  has  been  greatly  prejudiced  by  the  general  fear  and  dis- 
couragement to  settle  their  estates  or  to  endeavour  the  raising  of 
any  staple  commodities.  Return  thanks  for  the  disannulling 
thereof,  and  conceiving  that  the  languishing  Colony  may  at 
length  receive  a  new  life  and  that  those  difficulties  which  have 
hitherto  hindered  the  growth  of  it  may  be  overcome  thro'  his 
Maj.  taking  affairs  into  his  more  near  regard  and  princely  care, 
they  implore  the  continuance  of  their  Lordship's  favour,  beseach- 
ing  that  their  relations  may  rather  obtain  credit  than  the  infor- 
mation of  such  men  as  respects  only  their  private  ends  and 
inordinate  lucre  and  gain,  and  that  the  King's  royal  intentions 
may  be  confirmed  towards  them  for  the  consummation  of  this 
great  work  and  the  perfect  establish*  thereof — Certified  copy,  by 
Robert  Barrington,  cler,    (  Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  4,  No.  46. ) 

Governor  and  Council  to  Lord  De  la  Warr. 

Virginia,  March  30,  1628. 
The  Governor  and  Council  of  Virginia  to  Lord  De  la  Warr. 


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May  it  please  his  Honor  to  accept  from  Virginia  the  acknowl- 
edgment of  those  respects  that  this  Colony  offereth  &  oweth  to 
his  Lordship,  persuading  themselves  that  those  noble  inclinations 
are  hereditary  in  his  mind  which  were  in  the  thoughts  and  incli- 
nations of  his  Honourable  father,  who  gave  beginning  advance- 
ment, and  while  he  lived  supportation  to  this  plantation,  and 
since  his  death  how  endeared  hath  his  memory  been  to  their 
hearts,  it  being  apparent  to  them  how  great  sufferers  they  were 
in  his  loss,  by  whose  patronage  they  hoped  for  defence  against 
those  storms  which  since  have  well  nigh  overwhelmed  them,  and 
in  particular  these  pernitious  contracts  which  so  often  for  these 
six  years  have  been  continually  intruded  and  made  on  their  to- 
bacco without  their  knowledge  or  privity.  Implore  his  Lordship 
to  patronize  their  just  cause  &  that  their  petitions  &  general 
declarations  to  his  Maj.  may  be  graciously  accepted,  and  that 
none  may  contract  for  their  goods  without  their  consents. 
Signed,  Fra"  West,  John  Pott,  Sam  Mathews,  Roger  Smith, 
Wm.  Claybourne  &  Wm.  Tucker.  Certified  copy,  by  Robt. 
B ar ring  Ion,  cler.     {^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  4,  No.  47.) 


Governor  and  Council  of  Virginia  to  the  Earl  of 

Dorset. 

James  City,  March  30,  1628. 
The  Governor  &  Council  of  Virginia  to  Edward,  Earl  of 
Dorset.  Beg  him  to  accept  the  acknowledgement  of  their  thank- 
fulness for  his  continual  favour  towards  them,  and  more  particu- 
larly by  the  overthrowing  of  those  late  contracts  on  their  tobacco 
made  without  their  consents,  to  the  disannulling  whereof  his 
Lordship  gave  his  furtherance  &  power  which  otherwise  had 
tended  to  their  misery  and  ruin.  Desire  to  be  protected  against 
these  storms  and  implore  the  continuance  of  his  favor  to  this 
Colony  now  again  ensnared  in  the  same  toils  and  likely  to  suffer 
extreme  prejudice  by  new  contracts,  which  they  fear  are  pro- 
jected by  those  men  whose  ends  are  their  private  gains  and 
lucre  and  not  the  profit  of  his  Maj.  &  the  welfare  of  this  state. 
Have  received  his  Maj.  letters  and  instructions  from  Sir  Robert 
Heath,  to  which  they  have  returned  answer,  and  hope  his  Maj. 
will  hear  their  just  petitions  and  putanend  to  these  long  troubles, 


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in  the  which  they  beg  his  Lordship's  mediation  and  council. 
Sigyied  by  Fran:  West,  John  Pott,  Sam.  Mathews,  Roger  Smyth, 
Wm.  Claybourne  &  Wm.  Tucker.  Certified  copy,  by  Robert 
Barrington,  cler:  {^Colonial  Papers ,  Vol.  4,  No.  48.) 


A  Discourse  About  Virginia. 

1628,  March. 

A  discourse  about  Virginia,  containing  a  proposal  for  setting 
up  the  Iron  Works  in  Virginia,  that  his  Maj.  for  the  better  en- 
couragement of  the  Undertakers,  undergo  the  burden  of  so 
great  a  charge,  which  will  amount  to  many  thousand  pounds, 
incorporate  them  under  the  Great  Seal  of  England  with  fitting 
privileges,  that  no  others  set  up  any  Iron  Work  in  Virginia  for 
fourteen  years,  and  that  they  shall  be  free  from  paying  any  cus- 
tom, subsidy  or  other  duty  for  iron  made  there  and  brought  into 
England  for  a  certain  time. 

Those  who  have  underwritten  for  raising  a  joint  stock  to  per- 
form said  work  promise  to  pay  into  the  hands  of  their  Treasurer 
these  several  sums  of  money,  viz:  Draft,  there  are  neither  any 
names  or  sums  0/ mofiey  nndenvritten,  (3  pp.  Colonial  Papers, 
Vol.  4,  No.  50.) 


John  Ellzey  to  Edw'd  Nicholas. 

1628,  May  13,  Southampton. 

John  Ellzey  to  Edward  Nicholas. 

The  Fortune  has  taken  an  Angola  man  with  many  Negroes, 
which  the  Captain  bartered  in  Virginia  for  tobacco  which  has 
come  home  in  a  ship  called  the  Plantation. 

{Extract  from  Domestic  Corresp.,  Charles  /,  Vol.  103.  No.  85.) 


1628,  May  27,  Southampton. 

John  Ellzeye  to  Edward  Nicholas,  Secretary  to  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham. 

Concerning  the  tobacco  I  advertised  you  of  returned  upon  the 
Plantation  for  Negroes  sold  in  Virginia.  I  came  not  to  the  Knowl- 
edge thereof  until  all  or  the  most  part  of  the  tobacco  was  carried 


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away  to  London.  I  find  that  there  was  imported  85  hogsh*ds 
and  5  buts  of  tobacco,  being  the  proceeds  of  the  said  Negroes, 
and  here  received  by  Richard  Paleford,  John  Sherron  and  one 
Watkins,  being  assignees  for  Arthur  Guy,  Captain  of  the  For- 
tune', of  London.  You  may  inform  yourself  of  the  contents  of 
the  tobacco  exactly  by  one  Peter  Andrewes,  Master  of  the  said 
plantation,  who  is  now  resident  in  London,  being  brother  in  law 
to  one  Mr.  Vassall,  a  Turkey  Merchant,  eminent  upon  the  Ex- 
change. (^Extract from  Domestic  Corresp,,  Charles  /,  Vol.  105, 
No.  35.) 


The  King  to  Sir  John  Harvey. 

1628,  Sept.  12,  inclosure. 

The  King  to  Sir  John  Harvey,  Governor,  of  Virginia.  The 
King  renews  to  those  Colonies  (sic)  their  lands  and  privileges 
formerly  granted  and  declares  his  pleasure  in  Sundry  other  things 
touching  the  Government  there.    {Docquet,  Dofnestic^  Charles  L  ) 

N.  B.  There  is  a  copy  of  this  letter  calendared  under  its 
proper  date,  which  see. 

A  Letter  To  Be  Obtained  From  The  King. 

1628. 

**  The  substance  of  a  letter  to  be  obtained  from  his  Majesty 
touching  Virginia." 

Whereas  we  are  informed  of  your  speedy  intention  to  put  in 
execution  several  manufactories,  as  oils,  barillia,  potashes,  with 
soap,  not  heretofore  practised  in  our  plantation  of  Virginia, 
which  in  time  may  turn  to  the  great  advancement  thereof.  They 
are  to  have  especial  care  that  all  such  or  the  like  commodities 
be  made  really  perfect  and  good  lest  ill  opinion  be  justly  raised 
to  the  prejudice  of  the  plantation. 

None  of  said  commodities  to  pass  out  of  the  Country  without 
exact  view  and  examination,  that  the  goodness  thereof  may  be 
justifiable  to  all. — (^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  4,  No.  65.) 


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The  King  to  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Virginia. 
(Copy  in  "  De  Jarnette  Papers,"  Va.  State  Library.) 

Charles  R. : 

Trustee  &  wellbeloved,  we  greete  you  well.  Whereas  for 
the  knowledg  wee  have  of  yo'  experience  and  the  confidence  we 
put  in  your  fidelitie,  prudence  and  sufficiencie,  Wee  have  made 
choice  of  you  to  be  Governor  of  our  Collonies  in  Virginia  and 
thought  fite  by  the  advise  of  our  Privy  Councill,  for  your  comfort 
and  better  proceedings  in  that  charge,  to  give  you  these  direc- 
tions and  encouragement  followinge:  First,  wee  doe  hereby  de- 
clare and  promise  to  take  these  Collonies  of  our  Subjects  in  Vir- 
ginia into  our  royall  protection.  Wee  doe  likewise,  promise 
hereby  to  renewe  and  confirme  unto  the  said  Collonies  under 
our  greate  Seale  of  England  their  landes  &  priveledges  formerlie 
graunted.  having  alreadie  assigned  by  the  said  lo*  of  our  privy 
Counsell  a  proportion  of  money  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Gov- 
ernor, and  for  other  publique  uses  issuable  out  of  our  profitts 
from  the  Plantation,  and  wee  will  not  onlie  confirme  but  enlarge 
the  same  as  our  occasions  will  permit.  And  because  nothinge 
shall  be  left  undone  by  us  that  may  advance  the  florishing  of 
that  Plantation,  wee  will  be  the  rewarder  of  all  such  well  deserv- 
inge  Planters,  as  by  their  good  services  shall  merit  the  same. 
Wee  doe  further  expresslie  charge  and  require  you,  the  Gov- 
ernor and  counselle  there  to  cherish  &  respect  such  persons  as 
intend  to  make  Virginia  their  countrey  and  to  proferr  such  to 
places  of  benefitt,  and  trust  that  there  may  be  a  reall  diflference 
made  between  them  and  such  as  goe  thither  only  to  enrich  them- 
selves by  a  cropp  of  Tobacco,  and  in  respect  of  these  our 
favours  wee  will  and  comaund  that  all  Planters,  Adventurers  & 
others  shall  returne  their  comodities  of  the  growth  and  proceede 
of  Virginia  into  our  owne  dominions  of  England  and  not  els 
where  upon  paine  of  our  high  displeasure  and  condigne  punish- 
ment of  the  oflfendors.  Our  will  &  pleasure  allso  is,  And  wee 
doe  hereby  require  and  comaunde  you,  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
selle there,  and  all  others  and  officers  whom  it  may  concerne 
respectively  to  administer  and  execute  justice  indifferentlie, 
without  assertion  or  partiallitie  to  all  men,  and  thereof  do  expect 


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due  performance.  And  lasdie,  whereas  there  are  certaine 
Instructions  Signed  by  our  Privie  Counselle  for  the  orderinge  & 
governinge  of  that  Plantation,  we  will  &  comaund  you  to  see 
them  carefullie  observed  and  put  in  execution.  Given  under  our 
Signet,  at  our  Castle  of  Windsor,  thetwelft  day  of  September,  in 
the  seventh  yeare  of  our  Raigne.  Vera  copia. — State  Papers ^ 
Colonial,  Vol.  5,  No.  94.     (Sept.  12th,  1628.) 


SAINSBURY'S  ABSTRACTS. 


The  Case  of  Captain  Martin. 

Wyatt's  commission,  which  will  be  found  given  in  full  in  the 
Historical  Collections  by  Hazard  (Vol.  I,  pp.  189-192),  contains 
about  eight  times  as  many  words  as  the  abstract  in  this  Magazine, 
Vol.  VII,  pp.  129-130.  The  Proclamation  by  Charles  I,  is  also 
given  in  full  by  Hazard,  I,  pp.  203-205;  it  only  contains  about 
400  words  more  than  the  abstract,  VII,  pp.  132-134. 

Wyatt's  letter  of  Dec.  2  (O.  S),  1624,  contains  about  600 
words  more  than  the  abstract,  pp.  130-131;  and  that  of  June  15, 
(O.  S.),  1625,  over  600  more  words  than  the  abstract,  pp.  134- 
136.  Mr.  Sainsbury  was  mistaken  in  giving  Francis  West,  a 
signer  of  these  letters,  the  title  **  Sir,**  he  was  a  Captain  not  a 
Knight.  Wyatt's  letter  of  Feb*y  4  (O.  S),  1625  (N.  S.)  con- 
tains only  300  words  more  than  the  abstract  (pp.  131-132),  and 
the  enclosures  in  this  letter  given  on  pp.  137-146,  are  quite  com- 
plete, save  that  No.  36,  IV,  "The  examination  and  deposition 
of  witnesses,'*  is  not  given;  but  I  infer,  this  will  be  done  in  the 
next  number  of  the  Magazine. 

These  enclosures  are  not  given  in  proper  order  in  the  calendar. 
No.  36.  I,  and  IV,  were  made  in  December  1624,  and  considered 
by  the  Council  of  State,  in  Virginia,  on  January  6,  1625  (N.  S.), 
who  enclosed  them,  together  with  their  own  order  thereon  (No. 
36,  II,)  and  a  copy  of  the  original  warrant  (No.  36,  III,)  to  the 
Council  and  Company  in  England  in  the  letter  of  Feb'y  14,  1625, 
given  on  pp.  1 31-132.     May  3rd,  1622,  the  date  given  to  your 


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copy  of  the  warrant  on  p.  146,  is  not  correct;  Lieut.  Edmund 
Sanders  was  massacred  by  the  Indians  more  than  a  month  before 
this.  The  correct  date  is  1621  as  given  in  The  First  Republic 
in  America,  p.  414. 

These  letters  and  enclosures  taken  by  themselves  are  very 
severe  on  Martin;  but  when  the  whole  evidence  is  considered  it 
will  be  seen  that  it  was  necessary  to  use  a  great  deal  of  diplomacy 
in  his  case,  and  that  there  were  extenuating  circumstances  con- 
nected therewith. 

Having  contributed  a  sum  of  money  equivalent  to  over  $2,250 
in  present  values  to  the  enterprise  and  having  served  in  person 
in  the  colony  under  the  company  for  seven  years,  he  was  entitled 
to  over  eight  and  a  half  shares  of  land  in  Virginia  when  he  re- 
turned to  England  with  Sir  Thomas  Dale  in  June,  16 16.  At  a 
Virginia  Court  on  November  i8th  (N.  S.),  1616,  he  was  allowed 
in  reward  for  his  services  ten  shares  of  land  in  Virginia,  and 
James  I,  was  instrumental  in  having  sundry  extra  privileges  in- 
serted in  his  patent,  which  was  presented  *'  ready  engrossed  at  a 
private  court  called  extraordinarily,**  and  in  deference  to  the  King 
was  passed,  notwithstanding  the  dislike  of  divers  of  the  commit- 
tee to  the  royal  privileges  granted  therein. 

As  the  importance  of  the  underlaying  principles  of  the  com- 
pany charters  of  1609  and  161 2,  had  evidently  been  recognized 
by  those  royalists  who  had  opposed  granting  them,  those  prin- 
ciples must  have  been  well  understood  by  the  King,  and  it  is 
probable  that  he  only  granted  the  liberal  rights  in  perpetuo  for 
the  purpose  of  giving  needed  encouragement  to  the  colonists  at 
the  time,  that  he  really  intended  annulling  them  at  his  pleasure; 
and  he  may  have  had  these  extra  privileges  granted  to  Martin 
for  the  purpose  of  obstructing,  in  chrysalis,  the  **  policy  of  the 
free  and  equal  government.**  which  **the  Body  Politic**  was 
now  arranging  to  put  into  effect  in  America;  and  in  order  to  sow 
the  seed  of  discord  in  the  colony  which  might  finally  furnish  him 
with  a  pretext  for  annulling  the  liberal  charter  rights  he  had 
granted  to  the  company.  Whatever  may  have  been  the  King's 
purpose,  that  was  the  result;  these  royal  privileges  caused  almost 
as  much  discord  in  Virginia,  as  the  King's  form  of  government 
of  1607-1610  had  done. 

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1617,  and  located  his  plantation  at  Martin's  Brandon,  and  then 
the  trouble  began.  Naturally  his  extra  privileges  gave  dissatis- 
faction to  others,  and  naturally  Martin  began  to  cast  some  asper- 
sions on  the  policy  of  government  which  was  antagonistic  to  his 
own  charter  rights.  Governor  Argall  sent  a  protest  against  these 
privileges  to  the  Virginia  Court  in  England  in  the  Spring  of 

1618.  and  the  Quarter  Court  of  May  16th,  appointed  a  commit- 
tee to  examine  and  reform  the  said  patent;  but  it  was  not  deemed 
advisable  to  oppose  the  King's  act  openly  and  the  patent  was 
not  reformed. 

Magna  Carta,  confirmed  by  the  Virginia  Quarter  Court  in 
England  on  November  28th  (N.  S.),  1618,  authorized  the  elec- 
tion of  Burgesses  from  each  Plantation,  and  did  not  make  an 
exception  of  Martin's  Brandon,  which  was  then  a  settled  planta- 
tion and  under  the  aforesaid  patent,  while  Ward's  was  not  then 
planted.  All  acts  passed  by  the  Assembly  had  to  be  ratified  by 
the  said  Virginia  Court  before  they  became  laws,  and  if  so  rati- 
fied Brandon  would  not  have  been  exempted  from  such  jurisdic- 
tion. Strictly  speaking,  the  Burgess  from  Brandon  should  have 
been  admitted  and  Acts  should  have  been  passed  against 
Martin's  royal  privileges  ("over  their  heads,"  if  necessary),  by 
the  Assembly;  but  before  those  Acts  became  laws  the  Virginia 
Court  in  England  would  have  had  to  confirm  them,  in  doing 
which  that  court  would  have  been  openly  opposing  the  King's 
wishes  and  it  was  advisable  to  avoid  this.  Therefore,  the  offi- 
cials in  Virginia  pulled  the  political  wires — offering  the  alterna- 
tive—either surrender  the  royal  privileges  or  have  Brandon 
unrepresented  in  the  popular  Assembly — evidently  for  the  pur- 
pose of  inducing  Martin  to  yield  his  privileges,  and  thus  enable 
the  company  to  gain  the  point  without  an  issue  with  James  I. ; 
or  if  Martin  would  not  yield  to  make  the  issue  by  not  seating  the 
Burgesses,  so  as  to  make  it  appear  that  their  Act  was  directly 
against  Martin,  rather  than  by  passing  an  Act  directly  against 
privileges  granted  by  the  King.  In  brief,  the  matter  lying 
underneath  Martin's  case  made  it  of  very  much  greater  import- 
ance than  appears  on  the  surface.  Save  for  the  intermeddling 
of  James  I.,  the  question  could  not  have  arisen  under  the  Com- 
pany, as  the  extra  privileges  granted  under  the  auspices  of  the 
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kind  of  government,'*  which  **the  Body  Politic**  wished  to 
establish  in  Virginia,  and  the  opposition  to  Martin  which  devel- 
oped in  the  patriot  party  after  1617  was  against  his  royal  priv- 
ileges rather  than  against  "  our  very  loving  friend  Captain  John 
Martin,  Esquire,**  personally.  '*  The  thorn  in  the  flesh**  was 
James  I.,  rather  than  John  Martin. 

*  The  Acts  of  our  First  General  Assembly  reached  England  early 
in  1620,  about  the  time  that  James  I.  began  his  open  opposition 
to  the  Virginia  Court,  and  diplomacy  was  soon  almost  useless. 
Martin's  royal  privileges  were  soon  annulled  and  he  went  to 
England  in  April,  1621,  with  the  hope  of  having  them  restored; 
but  he  found  the  Virginia  Court  in  England  as  firm  as  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  in  Virginia  in  refusing  to  restore  his  patent  unless 
he  surrendered  his  extra  privileges,  and  this  he  still  refused  to 
do.  Early  in  1622  William  Herbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke;  Robert 
Rich,  Earl  of  Warwick;  Robert  Sydney,  Earl  of  Leicester 
Philip  Herbert,  Earl  of  Montgomery;  Edmund,  Lord  Sheffield 
Sir  Robert  Mansell ;  Sir  Thomas  Smythe;  Captain  Francis  West, 
William  St.  John;  Samuel  Argall;  Robert  Johnson  and  William 
Canning  gave  him  a  very  strong  endorsation  to  the  Virginia 
Court  (an  abstract  of  which  is  given  in  The  Genesis  of  the 
United  States,  Vol.  II,  p.  943),  to  which  that  Court  replied  on 
March  23rd  following,  still  firm  in  the  determination  that  the 
extra  privileges  must  be  eliminated.  If  Martin  would  surrender 
the  Kinq;*s  grant,  however,  the  Virginia  Court  offered  to  give 
him  a  new  patent  of  all  his  lands  with  as  large  privileges  as  any; 
but  not  superior  to  others,  for  they  would  not  infringe  on  the 
equal  kind  of  government  which  they  desired  to  establish  in 
America. 

The  controversy  went  on  before  the  Master  of  Requests,  and 
even  with  the  King  himself;  but  the  Virginia  court  remained 
firm.  Finding  it  impossible  to  secure  his  extra  privileges  from 
the  company,  on  December  19th,  1622,  Martin  wrote  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Sir  Julius  Caesar,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  asking 
him  **to  order  that  my  ould  Patent  may  be  brought  in  and 
delivered  to  your  honour's  hands,'*  and  offering  to  compromise 
with  the  Virginia  Court :  '*  That  if  they  thinke  my  enjoy inge  of 
the  King*s  favorable  grant  be  a  rupture  in  their  manner  of 
graunts,  then  let  them  give  me  a  fit  recompence  someway  answer- 


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able  to  my  tyme,  labours  and  losse.  *  ♦  *  ♦  Soe  shall  I 
be  free  from  further  pressure  of  impeaching  the  policie  of  their 
government."  An  agreement  was  finally  reached,  and  at  the 
Virginia  Courts,  February  13th  and  April  12th,  1623  (N.  S.),  it 
was  arranged  that  the  lands  be  selected  in  the  limits  of  the  old 
Martin  Brandon  plantation  ;  but  the  new  patent  did  not  restore 
his  original  royal  privileges. 

Before  this  agreement  went  into  effect,  however,  the  King 
determined  to  annull  the  company's  charters  under  which  Mar- 
tin's new  patent  was  granted,  and  the  Privy  Council  ordered 
that  those  members  of  the  company  who  would  consent  to  sur- 
render the  said  charters  ''without  suit,  should  enjoy  all  suche 
rights  and  privileges  as  in  former  times  they  had  enjoyed." 
This  order  covered  Martin's  case  ;  if  the  King  annulled  the 
company's  charter,  as  he  had  determined  to  do,  Martin's  new 
patent  would  be  worthless,  and  if  he  consented  to  the  surrender 
of  the  charters,  his  royal  privileges  would  be  restored  to  him. 
And  in  October  following,  he  voted  to  surrender  the  company's 
charter  in  the  hope  of  securing  his  old  privileges  by  so  doing. 
Two  months  thereafter,  the  Privy  Council  gave  him  the  follow- 
ing letter  : 

"  At  Whitehall,  19  December,  1623. 

"Present: — George  Abbot,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury; 
John  Williams,  Lord  Keeper;  Lionel  Cran field.  Lord  Treasurer; 
Henry  Montague,  Lord  President;  Ludovic  Stuart,  Lord  Steward 
of  the  King's  Household  [whose  widow  was  the  patroness  of 
Smith's  History];  William  Herbert,  Lord  Chamberlain;  James 
Hay,  Earl  of  Carlisle;  Oliver  St.  John,  Lord  Viscount  Grandi- 
son;  Arthur  Lord  Chichester;  Mr.  Secretary  Calvert;  Master 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  Weston;  Sir  Julius  Caesnr,  Master 
of  the  Rolls. 

"Whereas,  Captain  John  Martin,  Esquire,  being  a  Planter  in 
Virginia,  hath  been  detained  a  good  space  here  by  reason  of 
divers  controversies  which  have  risen  concerning  the  Plantation 
of  Virginia,  wherein  (as  we  conceive)  he  hath  behaved  himself 
honestly  and  discreetly  flfor  as  much  therefore  as  he  is  now  re- 
turning back  again  with  some  of  his  servants,  and  many  others 
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himself  and  them  upon  his  ruinated  Plantation.  Wee  have 
thought  good  to  accompany  him  with  these  our  letters  unto  you, 
the  Governor  and  Councill  there: 

'*  And  although  wee  doubt  not  but  that  you  will  use  him  and 
his  associates  as  becometh  you,  and  may  stand  with  the  advance- 
ment of  the  Plantation,  yet  we  will  expect  that  with  this  our 
Recommendation,  somewhat  more  than  ordinary  respect  should 
be  had  of  him;  and  do  require  you  to  take  care  (so  much  as  in 
you  lyeth)  that  he  and  all  such  as  shall  be  under  his  command 
may  be  from  all  danger  of  opposition,  and  peaceably  enjoy  all 
such  lands  and  goods  as  belong  unto  them,  behaving  themselves 
as  faithfull  subjects  ought  to  do. 

'*  Whereof  nothing  doubting,  wee  bid  you  heartily  farewell." 

At  the  preparative  court,  February  12,  1624  (N.  S.),  the 
Council  of  the  Company  for  Virginia,  at  Martin's  request  and  at 
the  entreaty  of  his  Majesty's  commissioners  wrote  a  very  favor- 
able letter  in  his  behalf  to  the  Governor  and  Council  in  Virginia, 
and  at  the  next  Quarter  Court  (February  14),  Mr.  Deputy  Far- 
rar  acquainted  the  court  that  tht  differences  between  the  com- 
pany and  Captain  Martin  were  now  well  composed  and  read  the 
said  letter  which  was  accepted  by  the  court.*  Armed  with  these 
two  letters,  one  from  the  Council  of  the  Crown,  the  other  from 
the  Council  of  the  Company,  Martin  sailed  for  Virginia  and 
arrived  there  when  the  whole  colony  was  in  an  excited  state  of 
mind  fearing  the  loss  of  the  charter  rights  which  Martin  had 
already  voted  to  surrender.  I  do  not  know  how  many  in  Vir- 
ginia wished  to  yield  the  company  charters  to  the  crown;  but 
probably  every  patriot  not  wishing  to  yield  them,  regarded  Mar- 
tin as  an  enemy  to  their  purposes  when  his  cases  were  being  con- 
sidered. He  afterwards  wrote  to  Sir  Julius  Caesar  that  ''Sir 
Francis  IVydtt  and  George  Sandys  made  no  more  of  account  of 
the  Letters  which  he  broii^^htthan  if  they  had  come  from  the  mean- 
est men  in  En f^ land.'' 

Martin's  sixth  demand  was  referred  by  the  council  in  Virginia 
to  a  General  Assembly  of  which  no  special  account  has  yet  been 


*The  letter  is  printed  in  Collections  of  the  Virginia  Historical  So- 
ciety^ new  series,  Vol.  V'lII,  pp.  252,  253. 

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found,  but  if  it  met,  it  must  have  been  prior  to  February,  1625. 
Martin  wrote  to  Cses^r  that  ''George  Sandys  dared  to  say  openly 
in  their  Parliament  [referring  to  said  Assembly,  or  to  one  of  the 
conventions  of  1625],  that  at  all  times  for  ten  pieces  given  to  a 
Secretary  he  could  have  such  a  letter  as  the  one  [which  Martin 
brought  to  Virginia] yr^w^  the  Privy  Council'' 

These  passages  illustrate  the  spirit  of  liberty  which  had  been 
developing  under  the  popular  charters  in  the  free  air  of  Virginia. 
The  abstracts  from  letters,  and  the  enclosures,  given  in  this 
Magazine,  VII,  pp.  130-132,  137-146,  show  the  same  spirit. 
The  royal  commission  of  August  26  (O.  S.),  1624  (VII,  pp. 
129-130),  arrived  in  Virginia  in  March,  1625.  In  this  commis- 
sion Martain  was  appointed  by  James  I,  to  be  one  oi  his  council 
in  Virginia,  and  remembering  that  the  appointment  was  made 
by  the  King  to  his  own  council  and  that  the  result  of  the  Quo 
Warranto  suit  was  then  known  in  the  colony,  it  will  be  seen  that 
the  reference  to  this  appointment  in  the  letter  of  June  15  (O.  S.), 
1625  (VII,  pp.  134-136),  show  very  clearly  the  same  spirit. 
These  letters  and  enclosures  arrived  in  England  after  his  death, 
but  we  can  well  imagine  the  spirit  in  which  James  I  would  have 
received  them. 

My  sympathies  are  with  the  patriot  party,  which  managed  the 
business  and  laid  the  foundation  for  the  new  nation  in  the  new 
world  upon  which  it  has  grown  to  be  the  greatest  nation  in  the 
whole  world,  hence  they  are  not  with  Martin  when  affiliating 
with  the  court  party  which  controlled  the  evidences  and  laid 
the  foundation  for  the  history  of  this  great  reform  movement  as 
it  has  been  written;  but  I  do  not  believe  that  it  would  be  just 
to  jndge  him  entirely  on  the  evidence  of  his  opponents,  even  if 
there  were  no  counter  evidences  nor  extenuating  circumstances. 
His  royal  privileges  should  not  have  been  granted,  and  would 
not  have  been  save  for  the  interference  of  James  I.;  but  from 
Martin' s  point  of  vieiv  they  were  his  charter  rights,  and  there- 
fore he  deserves  praise  rather  than  condemnation  for  his  firm- 
ness in  defending  those  rights.  As  he  was  deprived  of  them 
during  Yeardley's  administration  (1619-1621),  it  was  natural  for 
him  to  regard  Sir  George  Yeardley  as  the  chief  cause  of  his 
losses  and  difficulties  in  Virginia.  He  had  stood  by  the  colony 
in  person  during  her  very  darkest  hours;  when  he  returned  to 


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England  with  Dale  in  1616,  Virginia  was  regarded  as  a  setded 
plantation;  his  services  in  Virginia  prior  to  1616  were  acknowl- 
edged and  rewarded  by  the  managers  of  the  business,  and 
although  *  he  fell  into  the  snare  of  the  fowler, '  he  continued  to 
devote  his  life  to  Virginia,  and  his  dust  is  mingled  with  her 
sacred  soil,  and  for  these  reasons,  although  his  political  changes 
make  his  case  a  hard  one  to  deal  with  fairly,  I  do  not  believe 
that  he  should  be  **  viewed  with  the  critic's  eye/* 

The  charges  made  against  him  in  the  Oxford  Tract,  published 
in  161 2,  when  he  was  serving  as  an  official  under  the  company 
in  Virginia,  are  either  modified,  or  not  made,  in  the  history 
licensed  by  the  crown  in  1624,  and,  of  course,  he  is  not  assailed 
in  that  history  for  his  acts  after  161 7. 

I  have  written  this  article  because  the  proper  understanding  of 
Martin's  case  is  of  great  historic  importance,  and  I  was  not  as 
familiar  with  the  political  aspects  of  the  great  reform  movement 
which  gave  birth  to  this  nation  when  I  wrote  the  sketch  of  him 
given  in  '*The  Genesis  of  the  United  States  "  (Vol.  II,  pp.  943, 
944)  as  I  am  now. 

Alexander  Brown. 


Papers  Relating  to  the  Administration  of  Governor  Nich- 
olson and  to  the  Founding  of  VS^illiam 
and  Mary  College. 

(CONTINUED.) 

[The  captions  of  these  papers  in  square  brackets  have  been 
added  by  the  Editor.  Additions  by  Nicholson  have  been  placed 
in  quotations.] 

[Blair  to  Nicholson.] 

Midle  Plantation,  May  ye  8th,  1695. 
May  it  please  your  Excellency,  we  have  been  taken  up  three 
days  at  James  Town  ab*  ye  College  business  w*"  now  looks  w*** 
as  bad  an  appearance  as  ever;  Collo.  Ludwell  [Philip  Ludwell, 
Sr.]  seeing  how  matters  are  like  to  be  governed,  will  not  be  per- 
swaded  on  any  Acc't  to  undertake  ye  work.     The  reason  he 


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gives  out  Publickly  is  his  age  &  unwillingness  to  leave  his  son 
entangled;  But  he  sticks  not  to  say  among  his  Friends,  yt  he 
sees  no  possibility  of  carrying  it  on  in  this  Govern"  time.  By 
a  Lett'  w*""  comes  by  Perry  you  will  have  all  ye  news  of  ye  As- 
sembly wch.  proves  daily  worse  and  worse.  The  Govern'  & 
such  of  ye  Councill  as  are  of  our  Society  ever  since  that  awak- 
ening Dialogue  upon  w'**  I  was  suspended  *  have  appeared  very 
forward  &  zealous  to  promote  ye  College  business.  What  is 
under  it  cannot  tell,  Except  it  be  to  gett  something  represented 
home  at  this  time  to  that  purpose;  It  is  whispered  that  Coll* 
Byrd  is  designed  home  as  from  ye  Govern'  &  Councill  &  House 
of  Burgesses  if  they  can  carry  it  there  to  represent  the  true 
Estate  of  ye  Countrey.  The  business  of  ye  Land  w***  Mr. 
Mings*  is  referred  to  ye  next  Gen"  Court  with  a  Design  to 
compromise  the  matter,  leaving  him  2,000  acres  out  of  his  6,000. 
This  was  transacted  after  I  was  out  of  Town  chiefly  by  Col*" 
Hartwell's  advice,  for  the  Govern'  nor  none  of  the  other  Gov- 
ern" of  ye  College  would  set  in  it,  &  it  seems  they  were  afraid 
to  venture  it  in  ye  hands  of  the  rest,  that  they  took  to  be  none 
of  their  Friends.  B.  H.  [Benjamin  Harrison]  *  intends  to  wait 
on  your  Excell*^  at  St.  Mary's  about  the  latter  end  of  this  month, 
&  I  suppose  w""  him  Mr.  Philipp  Ludwell,  who  is  going  for  Eng- 
land. The  members  of  Councell  that  were  present  when  I  was 
suspended  were  Mr.  Secretary  Wormeley,  *  Coll".  Byrd,  *  Coll". 
Wormley,'*  Coll".  Hill,  f  Coll".  Jennings,*  &  Coll".  Harwell 
[Hartwell].  The  Govern'  has  told  me  that  he  has  suspended  me, 
but  I  was  not  called  to  hear  any  sentence  pronounced,  nor  can 
I  hitherto  procure  a  Copy  of  the  Suspension  tho'  I  have  very 


*  James  Minge,  clerk  of  James  City  county.  For  notes  on  the  Minge 
family,  see  this  Magazine,  III,  159. 

t  Colonel  Edward  Hill,  the  second,  of  "Shirley."  For  his  defence 
against  charges  of  illegal  and  arbitrary  conduct  during  Bacon's  Rebel- 
lion, see  this  Magazine,  January,  April  and  July,  1896,  and  for  a  sketch 
of  his  life,  and  a  notice  of  the  Hill  family.  III,  156,  &c. 

X  Edmund  Jennings,  Attorney-General,  Secretary  of  State,  member 
and  President  of  the  Council,  and  acting-Governor.  See  this  Maga- 
zine, VI,  399. 


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often  called  for  it  from  Mr.  Shurlock,*  who  still  pretends  to  be 
so  very  busy  that  he  has  not  had  time  to  Draw  it  out:  I  believe 
I  must  complain  to  the  Governour  &  Council  before  I  have  it: 
We  are  to  have  a  Gen"  meeting  of  the  Governours  of  ye  College 
at  the  Audit,  but  what  Day  that  will  be  is  not  yet  Certain;  it  is 
supposed  ab't  ye  loth  of  June;  I  will  endeavour  to  acquaint 
your  Ex*^  of  ye  Particular  Day  so  soon  as  I  know  it,  hoping  you 
will  be  there,  for  truly  it  is  a  Dangerous  thing  now  to  have  a 
Gen"  meeting  without  you.  The  Govern'  Councill,  Atturney 
Gen"  and  comonly  Mr.  Park  being  of  one  side,  there  are  lett" 
drawn  to  ye  Arch  Bp.  of  Canterbury  ye  Bp.  of  London  and  the 
Comm"  of  the  Customes,  but  before  they  were  ready  we  had  not 
a  number  and  so  they  were  not  signed.  Tis  Designed  that  some 
Encomium  should  be  put  in  them  of  ye  Governours  Encour- 
agement of  ye  College  if  we  do  not  prevent  it.  Mr.  F.  [Rev. 
Mr.  Fouace]  continues  firm  in  his  resolution  of  going  to  Eng- 
land, w***  for  my  part  can  by  no  means  think  proper  for  me  at 
this  time  for  many  good  reasons,  w*"**  I  will  communicate  to  your 
ExcelP'  at  meeting,  but  for  your  satisfaction  will  hint  at  a  few  of 
them. 

1.  If  the  College  should  suffer  in  my  absence  I  might  be 
blamed. 

2.  If  I  went  w^^out  leave  of  ye  Govern"  of  ye  College,  I  might 
be  suspended  from  my  President's  Place  for  non-residence. 

3.  My  Parish  would  likewise  be  disposed  of 

4.  It  would  not  be  Decent  for  one  of  my  Function  to  be  so 
impatient,  Ambitious  or  Pragmatical  as  to  run  home  to  com- 
plain of  such  a  small  injury. 

5.  If  his  business  is  not  done  by  writing,  I  hope  I  may  be 
called  home,  w*"  will  look  a  great  deal  better. 

I  submitt  these  reasons  to  your  Excell*^''  consideration,  &c. 

I  have  payed  your  account  to  Maj.  Wilson,  w*"  came  to  four 
pounds  five  shillings  &  delivered  your  Tokens  to  him  &  H. 
Batts. 

This  morning  Collo.  Jennings  has  proffered  himself  to  under- 
take the  building,  &  has  till  tomorrow  fomight  to  consider  of  it. 

If  I  have  any  more  Letters  pray  send  them  to  Mr.   Fouace, 


*James  Shurlock,  or  Sherlock,  clerk  of  the  Council. 


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for  this  came  by  a  foolish  fellow  that  blabbed  it  out  before  all 
the  boys. 

[Sarah  Harrison's  Promise  of  Marriage.] 

**  These  are  to  Certify e  all  persons  in  ye  World,  that  I,  Sarah 
Harrison.  Daughter  of  Mr.  Benja.  Harrison,  do  &  am  fully  re- 
solved &  by  these  presents  do  oblige  myself  (&  cordially  prom- 
ise) to  Wm.  Roscow*  never  to  marry  or  to  contract  Marriage 
with  any  Man  (during  his  life)  only  himself  to  confirm  these 
presents.  I  the  abovesaid  Sarah  Harrison  do  call  the  Almighty 
God  to  witness  &  so  help  me  God.     Amen. 

**  Sarah  Harrison.** 

Test:  Aprull  ye  28,  1687. 

[Marriage  of  Dr.  Blair  and  Sarah  Harrison.] 

**  Memorandum,  when  Mr.  James  Blair  was  married  to  Mrs. 
Sarah  Harrison,  it  was  done  by  one  Mr.  Smith,  when  she  was 
to  say,  Obey.  She  said  No  obey,  upon  w*"  He  refused  to  pro- 
ceed &  the  second  time  she  said  No  Obey  &  then  he  refused 
again  to  proceed.  The  third  time  she  said  No  Obey;  yet  the 
s**  Mr.  Smith  went  on  with  the  rest  of  the  ceremony." 


[The  next  paper  in  the  manuscript  is  the  **  Further  Affidavit** 
of  Dr.  Blair  against  Nicholson,  dated  May  ist,  1703,  which  has 
been  printed  in  Perry's  Collections,  131-138.  Other  memorials 
by  Blair  against  Nicholson,  are  printed  in  the  same  work,  75-80 
and  93-112.] 

[Answer  of  John  Thrale  in  Behalf  of  Nicholson.] 
The  Answer*  of  Mr.  John  Thrale,  Agent,  to  his  Excellency 


*On  May  17,  1704,  Philip  Ludwell  and  Rev.  Stephen  Fouace  pre- 
sented to  the  Lords  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  a  reply  toThrale's  **  An- 
swer." This  document,  21  pages  in  length,  is  in  the  British  Public 
Record  Office,  but  has  never  been  copied.  The  contest  in  England, 
bringing  in  a  large  number  of  affidavits,  charges  and  counter  charges, 
went  on  for  some  time,  until  the  authorities  referred  all  of  the  papers  to 
Nicholson,  in  Virginia,  for  his  answer.     It  is  evident,  however,  that 


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Francis  Nicholson,  Esq.,  her  Majesties  Lieutenant  and  Gover- 
nor General  of  Virginia,  for  and  on  behalf  of  the  said  Gov- 
ernor, to  the  memorial  *  exhibited  against  the  said  Governor  in 
the  names  of  J.  Lightfoot,  Mathew  Page,  Benjamin  Harrison, 
Robert  Carter,  James  Blair  and  Philip  Ludwell. 

The  Respondent,  John  Thrale,  having  had  a  copy  of  the  said 
memorial,  and  being  unwilling  that  the  Governor  should  lye 
under  such  false  and  scandalous  expressions  as  the  same  is  stuffed 
with,  and  being  able,  as  he  hopes,  by  the  testimony  of  witnesses 
now  in  London  of  undoubted  credit  to  prove  the  truth  of  this 
his  answer  in  behalf  of  the  said  Governor  which  contains  an  an- 
swer to  many  of  them,  they  being  conceived  in  general  terms 
without  mention  of  persons,  times  or  places. 

This  Respondent  beggs  leave  to  answer  the  same  Paragraph 
by  Paragraph  in  the  same  method  as  charged  in  the  memoriall 
and  doth  humbly  rely  upon  your  Lordshipps  Justice  that  if  this 
his  answer  shall  in  anything  seem  short  or  defective  it  may  be  at- 
tributed to  this  Respondents  ignorance  of  the  particular  Trans- 
action in  that  country  and  no  way  reflect  upon  the  Justice  of  the 
Governor's   cause. 

The  Complainants  in  their  Preamble  are  pleased  to  say  that 
they  would  pass  over  a  vast  number  of  instances  of  the  Gover- 
nor's Injustice,  oppression  and  insolence,  but  in  this  point  they 
will  hardly  gain  credit  with  your  Lordships  since  they  have  mali- 
tiously  endeavored  to  expose  him  for  his  personall  faults,  which 
have  no  relation  to  the  publick. 

In  answer  to  the  charge  against  him  for  his  Behavior  to  the 
Council.  To  the  first  article  concerning  Injustice,  that  the  Gov- 
ernor hath  done  no  more  therein  than  former  Governors  used  to 
do,  and  that  it  is  in  the  power  of  the  Governor  to  remove  justices 
of  the  peace,  if  he  sees  cause,  and*  put  others  in  their  Roome, 
and  had  they  been  named,  who  are  alleged  to  have  been  re- 


strong  influence  was  being  exerted  against  him  at  Court,  for  on  April 
5.  1705,  before  he  could  reply  (as  one  of  his  friends  in  England  com- 
plained) Secretary  Hedges  informed  the  Lords  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions that  the  Queen  had  decided  to  recall  him  and  appoint  Major  Ed- 
ward Nott,  Governor  in  his  place. 

*This  memorial  from  members  of  the  Council  was  printed  in  this 
Magazine,  III,  373,  &c. 


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moved  without  cause  some  answer  might  have  been  given,  nor 
doth  it  appear  that  what  hath  been  is  to  the  dissatisfaction  of  any 
one  but  Mr.  Blair,  or  the  endangering  of  the  Peace  of  the  Coun- 
try, if  Mr.  Blair  doth  not  endeaver  to  embroil  it. 

Whether  all  the  sheriffs  have  of  late  been  nominated  with- 
out the  advice  of  the  Council  this  Respondent  cannot  say,  but 
if  they  were  the  Governor  is  justifiable  in  such  nomination  by 
his  Instruction  now  remaining  before  your  Lordshipps. 

The  same  answer  is  to  be  given  [as]  to  Colonels  and  other 
officers  of  the  militia. 

As  to  the  naval  officers,  none  being  named,  it  is  impossible  to 
give  a  direct  answer.  But  this  Respondent  said  it  doth  not  (and 
believes  it  cannot)  be  made  appear  that  any  such  thing  was  done 
by  the  Governor  without  advice  of  the  Council. 

There  never  were  any  Proclamations  issued  in  her  Majesties 
name  without  advice  of  the  Councill,  but  orders  may  have  been 
so  issued  and  the  Governor  is  justifiable  in  so  doing. 

Precepts  and  warrants  have  been  drawn  upon  the  Receiver 
Generall  (as  hath  been  a  long  time  accustomed)  without  advice 
of  the  Council  for  salaries  and  other  certain  established  charges, 
but  for  contingent  charges  never  such  did  issue  without  such 
advice. 

The  accounts  are  not  passed  or  examined  by  the  Governor 
but  the  same  doth  belong  to  the  Auditor,  so  that  if  there  be  any 
mistake  or  irregularity  therein  (which  doth  not  appear)  the  Aud- 
itor ought  to  answer  for  the  same. 

That  the  Council  have  never  since  the  year  1674  or  1675  taken 
upon  them  the  nomination  of  an  Agent;  but  did  then  establish 
an  allowance  of  loO;^  ^  ann.  on  the  Governor  to  defray  the 
charge  of  Agency,  and  the  Agents  have  been  ever  since  nomi- 
nated by  the  Governor,  and  the  charge  of  loO;^  is  not  much 
more  than  one-fourth  part  of  what  was  expended  in  service  be- 
fore that  establishment  was  made. 

As  to  rules  of  Limittation  prescribed  to  and  the  Restraints 
laid  upon  Surveyors,  the  same  being  a  matter  now  lying  before 
your  Lordshipps  upon  a  Representation  from  the  Governor,  I 
shall  say  nothing,  but  submit  the  same  to  your  Lordshipps  de- 
termination. 

As  to  the  charge  of  putting  things  upon  Record  without  ad- 


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vice  in  Council  no  answer  can  be  given,  the  charge  being  so 
generall.  Nor  doth  this  Respondent  conceive  that  the  advice 
of  the  Council  can  be  any  way  necessary  to  determine  what  ought 
to  be  matter  of  record  and  what  not. 

That  the  Governor  alone  without  advice  of  Council  haih 
recomended  persons  home  [/.  e,,  at  '*home** — in  England]  as 
fit  persons  to  be  put  into  the  Council  the  Respondent  believes  is 
true,  it  being  agreeable  to  the  nature  of  the  thing  and  pursuant 
to  his  instructions.  But  the  Governor  hath  great  reason  to  re- 
pent the  excu"  of  that  authority  ii\  recommending  Mr.  Blair  as 
such,  even  against  the  opinion  of  severall  of  the  Council,  to 
whom  he  did  communicate  such  his  intention. 

The  Removall  of  Clerks  of  County  Courts  is  solely  in  the 
Secretary,  and  till  the  Clerks  removed  be  named  it  is  impossi- 
ble to  answer  whether  done  by  interposition  of  the  Governor, 
altho'  if  it  should  appear  to  be  so,  he  doth  not  see  what  crime 
that  could  be  made  to  the  Governor. 

2.  As  to  the  calling  so  many  general  Assemblies  and  at  un- 
seasonable times*  of  the  year,  this  Respondent  saith  that  it  doth 
not  appear  that  the  Governor  ever  called  an  Assembly  without 
the  Advice  of  the  Council,  nor  so  much  as  suggested  that  he 
did,  and  there  can  be  no  reason  to  find  fault  with  the  frequency 
of  them,  unless  those  Gentlemen  of  the  Council  who  find  fault 
with  him  would  have  the  whole  management  vested  in  the 
Council. 

As  to  the  Governor's  making  harsh  speeches  and  irritating 
Propositions  I  find  no  ground  for  that  charge  unless  they  mean 
that  the  desiring  an  Imposition  of  6**  per  hogshead,  and  15  lb. 
Tobacco  per  pol  for  putting  the  Country  into  a  Posture  of  defense 
and  defraying  other  necessary  charges  be  called  an  irritating 
Proposition.  But  this  Respondent  thinks  that  the  matter  is  self 
evident  that  the  Governor  hath  no  way  provoked  the  Assembly 
by  his  management  of  aflfairs,  both  from  what  the  Assembly 
have  done  there  and  represented  here,  and  surely  if  there  were 
a  misunderstanding  between  the  Governor  and  Assembly  he 


♦The  Assembly  met  during  Nicholson's  second  administration  in 
April,  1699,  December,  1700,  August,  1701,  May,  1702,  and  August, 
1702. 


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would  not  be  so  fond  of  them  as  to  call  them  together  so  fre- 
quently as  to  render  their  meetings  burthensome  to  the  Country 
as  the  Complainants  would  insinuate. 

(to   be   CONTINUED.) 


NOTES. 

'  Dr.  Blair  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Council  in  March, 
i693-*4,  2ind  sworn  in  on  July  i8th.  In  less  than  a  year  he  was 
suspended.  Governor  Andros,  writing  June  4th,  1695,  says: 
**  Mr.  Commissary  Blair,  FVesident  of  the  College  could  not  be 
obliged  by  all  endeavours  nor  contain  himself  >vithin  bonds  *  * 
his  restless  comport  I  ever  passed  by,  till  the  whole  Council  for 
his  demeanor  before  them,  faulting  him  as  unfit  to  be  in  Coun- 
cil, I  thought  fit  to  suspend  him  from  the  Council  until  further 
order.**  There  is  said  to  have  been  a  difficulty  between  An- 
dros and  Blair  in  regard  to  Church  affairs  in  Virginia.  On  No- 
vember 13,  1695,  the  King  made  an  order  that  Dr.  Blair  should  be 
at  once  reinstated,  which  was  done.  His  enemies,  however,  were 
not  idle,  for  though  a  list  of  members  of  the  Council,  dated  April 
22d,  1697,  includes  the  name  of  James  Blair,  with  the  addition 
'*  Intends  for  England,'*  yet  on  the  24th  of  the  same  month,  the 
Council,  in  a  letter  to  the  King,  said:  **  In  reference  to  the  acts 
for  trade,  &c.,  the  Council  of  opinion  that  Mr.  Commissary 
Blair,  who  declared  himself  a  Scotchman,  comes  within  the  act 
as  is  disabled  from  sitting  as  a  Judge  of  the  General  Court,"  and 
they  had,  therefore,  suspended  him  from  the  Council.  The 
members  signing  the  letter  were  Richard  Lee,  William  Byrd, 
Christopher  Wormeley,  John  Lightfoot,  Richard  Johnson,  Chas. 
Scarburgh,  Edward  Hill,  and  Edmund  Jenings.  But  in  a  letter 
written  the  same  day  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Duke  of 
Shrewsbury,  they  said  that  Dr.  Blair,  producing  his  Majesty*s 
commands,  was  readmitted.  The  matter  of  eligibility  seems, 
however,  to  have  remained  an  open  question,  for  on  July  6,  1698, 
the  Attorney  and  Solicitor  Generals  of  England,  at  the  request 
of  the  Lords  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  gave  their  opinions  on 
the  subject  and  declared  that  the  fact  of  being  a  Scotchman  did 
not  disable  Dr.  Blair  from  being  a  member  of  the  Council  of 
Virginia.     About  the  same  date,  Colonel  Daniel  Parke,  of  the 


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Council,  then  in  London,  presented  a  memorial  in  opposition  to 
Blair  having  a  seat  in  Council,  and  on  August  24,  1698,  the 
Commissary  himself  appeared  before  the  Board  in  his  own  be- 
half. In  spite,  however,  of  the  favorable  opinions  of  the  chief 
law  officers  of  the  Crown,  the  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
and  Plantations,  declare  that  that  body  had  seen  no  reason  to 
alter  the  list  of  Councillors  in  the  new  commission  which  had 
been  prepared  to  accompany  instructions  to  Nicholson  at  the 
beginning  of  his  second  administration,  and  that  list  did  not 
include  Dr.  Blair's  name.  So  he  was  for  a  time  left  out  of  the 
Council.  But  if  his  enemies  thought  he  had  been  finally  dis- 
posed of,  they  recjconed  very  much  without  their  host. 

•Beitjamin  Harrison,  of  '*  Wakefield,*'  Surry  county,  second 
of  the  name,  was  born  September  20,  1645,  and  died  January  30, 
1712-13.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for 
Surry,  1680,  and  1682,  and  of  the  Council  from  1698.  until  his 
death.  His  tomb,  formerly  at  Cabin  Point  Church,  but  now  re- 
moved to  Brandon,  bears  the  following  inscription: 

•*Here  lyeth 

the  body  of  the 

Hon.  Benjamin  Harrison,  Esq., 

who  did  justice,  loved  mercy,  and  walked  humbly  with  his  God; 

was  always  loyal  to  his  prince, 

and  a  great  benefactor  to  his  country  ; 

He  was  born  in  this  parish  on  the  20th  of  September,  1645,  and 

departed  this  life  the  30th  day  of  January,  1712-13.*' 

From  his  eldest  son,  Benjamin,  descended  the  Harrisons  of 
**  Berkeley,**  and  from  the  youngest,  Nathaniel,  the  families  of 
the  name  at  **  Wakefield**  and  **  Brandon.'* 

*  Ralph  Wormeley,  of  **  Rosegill,*'  Middlesex  county,  Va., 
son  of  Ralph  Wormeley,  of  the  same  place,  who  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council.  The  son  was  born  1650,  matriculated  at 
Oriel  College,  Oxford,  July  14,  1665;  was  appointed  to  the 
Council  in  1677,  and  Secretary  of  State,  February,  1692-3. 
As  President  of  the  Council  he  was  acting  Governor  during 
several  absences  of  Andros  in  1693  and  1694.  He  was  one 
of  the  wealthiest  and  most  influential  men  in  Virginia,  and  died 
in  1702.     By  his  first  marriage  with  Katherine,  widow  of  Cap- 


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tain  Peter  Jenings  (a  member  of  the  Council  and  Attorney 
General),  an  only  child,  by  his  last  marriage,  of  Sir  Thomas 
Lunsford,  he  had  two  children,  Elizabeth,  married  1703  John 
Lomax.  and  died  1740,  and  a  daughter  who  married  Gawin 
Corbin  and  d.  s.  p.  By  second  marriage,  February  16,  1689, 
with  Elizabeth  Armisted,  of  Gloucester  county,  he  had  (i) 
Ralph,  d,  s,  p,;  (2)  John;  (3)  Judith,  born  1695,  niarried  Mann 
Page,  of  '^Rosewell.'* 

*  Colonel  William  Byrd,  of  Henrico  county,  and  afterwards  of 
*'Westover,"  Charles  City  county,  born  1652,  died  December 
4th,  1704,  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses;  appointed 
to  the  Council  1 68 1,  appointed  Auditor-General  December,  1687. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  Warham  Horsmanden, 
of  Charles  City  county,  a  member  of  the  Council,  formerly  of 
Purleigh,  Essex,  England. 

'Colonel  Christopher  Wormley,  of  Middlesex  county,  ap- 
pointed to  the  Council  in  1683.  How  he  was  related  to  the  other 
family  of  Wormeley  in  Middlesex,  that  resident  at  '*  Rosegill," 
does  not  appear.  He  was  a  man  of  prominence  and  is  frequently 
mentioned  in  the  records  of  the  county.  In  1667  he  was  a  justice 
of  Lancaster  (before  Middlesex  was  formed  from  it),  in  1674  a 
justice,  and  in  1681  high  sheriff  of  Middlesex.  On  December 
2d,  1686  he  made  a  conveyance,  recorded  in  Middlesex,  to  Maxi- 
milian Robinson,  which  was  to  be  void  if  his  sons  William  and 
Thomas  Wormley  conveyed  to  the  said  Robinson  1,406  acres 
of  land.  In  April,  1684,  ^^^  court  of  Middlesex  county  gave  a 
certificate  that  Colonel  Christopher  Wormeley  had  produced  be- 
fore them  166  lbs.  of  dressed  flax  fit  for  the  spindle,  13  pecks 
of  flaxseed,  and  3  pecks  of  hempseed,  **  which  ye  said  Coll. 
Wormeley  declared  on  oath  it  was  his  own  growth  or  manu- 
facture.*' This  was  with  a  view  to  a  bounty  which  had  been 
offered. 

Colonel  Wormley  appears  from  various  records  to  have  been 
three  times  married.  First,  about  1666,  to  Frances  (died  May 
25,  1685),  widow  of  Colonel  Anthony  Elliott,  of  the  Council, 
and  before  of  Rev.  Justinian  Aylmer;  secondly,  to  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  Colonel  John  Carter,  Jr.;  and  thirdly,  to  Margaret 
.     He  had  issue,  William  and  Thomas,  and  a  daughter, 


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Judith,  born  May  25,  1683,  who  married  (I)  Corbin  Griffin;  (II) 
William  Beverley;  (III)  Christopher  Robinson,  of  **Hewick," 
Middlesex. 

The  will  of  Christopher  Wormeley,  of  Middlesex,  was  proved 
in  that  county,  July  7,  1701;  legatees,  to  son,  William  Worme- 
ley, all  the  plantation  called  Pohetan  [Powhatan],  and  5  negroes, 
and  all  horses,  cattle,  household  stuff,  &c.,  belonging  to  the 
said  plantation  called  Pohetan,  in  James  City  county.  To  son, 
Thomas  Wormeley,  and  daughter,  Judith  Wormeley,  all  lands 
and  plantations  in  Middlesex,  together  with  the  English  servants, 
and  slaves  of  all  sorts,  with  all  plate,  linen,  woolen,  money  in 
England,  merchandizing  goods,  household  stuff,  horses,  cattle, 
sheep,  hogs,  plows,  carts,  cart-wheels,  or  any  manner  of  work- 
ing tools;  the  utensils  belonging  to  the  kitchen  and  dairy;  said 
goods  to  be  equally  divided  and  used  during  the  lives  of  said 
son  and  daughter,  and  profits  of  lands  also  equally  divided,  and 
if  said  son  Thos.  dies  without  issue,  all  his  estate  to  revert  to 
said  daughter.  And  in  case  she  then  dies  without  issue,  to  son, 
William.  His  desire  is  to  be  buried  in  his  own  garden  betwixt 
his  first  wife,  Frances,  and  **  my  last  wife,'*  Margaret,  and  that 
place  to  be  walled  in.  To  friend,  Wm.  Churchill,  40  shillings 
for  a  ring.  To  son,  William  Wormely,  ;^50  sterling  to  buy  two 
negroes.  Son  Thomas  and  daughter  Judith,  executors,  and 
friend,  Wm.  Churchill,  desired  to  assist  them. 

•William  Roscow,  or  Roscoe,  of  Blunt  Point,  Warwick  Co., 
died  in  1700.  On  his  tomb  at  Blunt  Point,  are  the  following 
arms  and  epitaph: 

[Arms;  not  described  in  any  heraldic  work  accessible;  but 
containing  a  lion  rampant  and  a  ragged  staff;  crest:  a  hand  hold- 
ing a  dagger.] 

**Vnder  this  stone  lyeth  the  Body  of 

William  Roscow,  Gentleman,  who 

was  Borne  at  Chorley,  in  the  County 

of  Lancashire,  the  30th  day  of  November 

Anno  Dom:  1664, 

and  Departed  this  life  at  Blunt  Point, 

in  ye  County  of  Warwick,  the  2d  day  of 

November  Anno  Dom:  1700, 


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And  in  the  36th  year  of  his  Age; 
Also  here  lyes  the  Body  of  Mary,  wife 

of  the  above  William  Roscow, 

and  Daughter  of  Col.  Wm.  Wilson, 

of  Elizabeth  City  County,  who  was 

Born  in  October,  1675. 

And  dyed  Jan.  the  nth,  1741,  in  the  67th 

Year  of  her  age.  * ' 

William*  and  Mary  Roscow  had  issue:  I.  James',  of  Hamp- 
ton, appointed  Receiver-General  of  Virginia,  January  22d,  17 16; 
apparently  died  without  issue;  II.  William*;  III.  Willis',  born 
about  1 701,  and  died  under  age  and  without  issue. 

William'  Roscow,  of  Blunt  Point,  sheriff  of  Warwick  1729, 
and  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  1726,  and  1736.  He 
married  Lucy,  daughter  of  Colonel  Wm.  Bassett,  of  *'Eltham,*' 
New  Kent  county,  and  besides  several  sons,  who  died  without 
issue,  before  1768,  had  a  son,  James'  Roscow,  of  Blunt  Point, 
J.  P.  for  Warwick,  1769,  at  whose  petition,  in  1768,  the  General 
Assembly  docked  the  entail  on  a  tract  called  Derby's,  700 
acres,  in  Warwick.  In  1770  he  again  petitioned  the  Assembly 
to  dock  the  entail  on  all  his  remaining  lands,  consisting  of  two 
estates.  Blunt  Point,  and  Stanley  Hundred,  in  Warwick  county, 
stating  he  then  had  no  issue.  But  there  were  doubtless  others 
who  had  an  interest  under  the  entail,  and  the  petition  was  re- 
jected.    It  was  offered  again  in  1774,  but  no  action  was  taken. 


John  Paul  Jones  as  a  Citizen  of  Virginia. 


The  renewed  interest  in  the  history  of  our  navy,  excited  by 
the  victories  of  the  war  with  Spain,  called  forth  several  interest- 
ing papers  on  that  most  notable  naval  officer  of  the  Revolution, 
John  Paul  Jones,  and  public  attention  has  been  recently  directed 
towards  him  by  the  report  that  his  long-forgotten  burial  place  in 
Paris  had  been  discovered.  The  main  incidents  of  his  career 
are,  of  course,  well  known,  including  the  fact  that  he  came  to 


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JOHN   PAUL  JONES  AS  A  CITIZEN   OF  VIRGINIA.  287 

Fredericksburg,  Va. ,  to  inherit  the  estate  of  a  deceased  brother 
William  Paul;  but  it  has  not  been  generally  known  that  he  was 
a  resident  of  that  town  for  about  two  years,  nor  that  during  the 
time  in  which  he  served  the  United  States  with  such  distin- 
guished gallantry,  he  was  a  citizen  of  the  State  of  Virginia. 
The  latter  fact  was  passed  upon  and  affirmed  by  the  highest 
legal  authorities  in  Virginia,  and  the  executive  department  of 
the  State  Government,  acting  upon  this  advice,  granted  his  heirs 
9,000  acres  of  land,  as  due  to  him  as  a  citizen  of  Virginia  for  his 
services  during  the  Revlution. 

A  recent  letter  in  the  Richmond  Dispatch,  from  Fredericks- 
burg, gives  the  following  account  of  his  connection  with  that 
town  : 

''According  to  the  records  of  the  County  Court,  he  came 
here  in  1773  to  administer  on  an  estate  of  his  brother,  William 
Paul,  who  died  here  in  1772.  William  came  here  in  1760, 
and  shortly  afterwards  entered  the  mercantile  business,  in  which 
he  was  engaged  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  The  store  occu- 
pied by  him  is  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Market  streets,  and 
is  the  same  building  in  which  George  Washington  was  made 
a  Mason.  Tradition  also  says  that  one  of  the  rooms  in  the 
building  was  used  by  John  during  his  residence  here,  which  was 
nearly  two  years,  as  his  lodging  quarters.  It  was  also  during 
his  citizenship  here  that  he  received  his  appointment  from  the 
Colonial  Congress  as  lieutenant  in  the  navy.  It  was  here,  too, 
that  he  added  Jones  to  his  patronymic,  which,  it  is  said,  was  in 
token  of  the  friendly  act  ol  Colonel  Willie  Jones,  of  North  Car- 
olina, who  became  his  bondsman  for  ;^500  when  he  administered 
on  his  brother's  estate." 

In  1838,  Janette  Taylor  of  Gosport  (Portsmouth),  Va.,  pre- 
sented the  following  : 

**  Memorial  of  the  Heirs  of  Com.  Jno.  Paul  Jones. 
'*  To  the  Governor  and  Council  of  the  State  of  Virginia: 

**The  Memorial  of  the  devisees  of  Commodore  John  Paul 
Jones,  respectfully  represents: 

**That  their  testator  was  a  citizen  of  Virginia  and  a  resident 
in  the  Town  of  Fredericksburg,  when  he  accepted  a  commission 


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288  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

in  the  Continental  navy,  dated  the  22d  day  of  December,  1775 
(see  Journal  of  Congress,  Vol.  ist,  p.  212),  as  first  Lieutenant 
of  the  Alfred,  on  board  which  ship  before  Philadelphia,  he 
hoisted  with  his  own  hands  the  flag  of  freedom  the  first  time  it 
was  displayed. 

**That,  as  Captain  of  the  Ranger,  in  Quiberon  bay,  on  the 
14th  of  February,  1778,  he  claimed  and  obtained  from  Monsieur 
La  Motte  Picquet  the  first  salute  the  flag  of  the  infant  republic 
received  from  a  foreign  power.  That  he  had  been  residing  in 
Fredericksburg  about  two  years  previous  to  accepting  his  com- 
mission. 

**That  he  continued  to  serve  until  the  Independence  of  his 
adopted  Country  was  acknowledged  and  the  war  ended ;  and  he 
was  at  the  time  of  his  death  the  senior  officer  in  the  United 
States  Navy. 

**  Your  memorialists  deem  it  unnecessary  to  advert  particu- 
larly to  the  services  he  rendered  during  the  Revolution,  the  doc- 
uments relative  to  them  are  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
Congress,  and  form  a  part  of  the  history  of  that  eventful  period; 
for  a  portion  of  them,  however,  they  beg  leave  to  refer  to  the 
report  of  the  Board  of  Admiralty  of  the  2'*'  of  March,  1781, 
from  which  the  following  is  an  extract: 

[Here  follow  the  extracts  referred  to;  but  as  they  are  printed, 
with  much  other  matter  in  regard  to  John  Paul  Jones,  in  the 
"Memorial  of  Janette  Taylor,  et  al,,  representatives  of  John 
Paul  Jones,'*  Doc.  No.  19,  House  of  Representativos,  24th  Con- 
gress, second  session,  it  is  unnecessary  to  reprint  them  here. 
The  printed  Congressional  document  referred  to  is  filed  with  the 
memorial  to  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Virginia.] 

"Your  memorialists  are  advised  that  their  testator  being  a 
resident  of  Virginia  when  he  entered  the  service,  and  having 
faithfully  served  from  the  commencement  to  the  end  of  the  war, 
became  entitled  to  the  Land  Bounty  promised  all  who  should  so 
serve. 

•'They  therefore  hope  that  the  quantity  allowed  by  law  to 
officers  of  his  rank  may  now  be  granted  to  them. 

"Janette  Taylor, 
"  On  behalf  of  myself  and  the  other  Heirs  of  John  Paul  Jones.'* 
\^Ex€cntiv€  Archives,  State  of  Virginia. '\ 


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Filed  with  this  memorial  is  a  letter  from  Judge  Francis  T. 
Brooke,  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia,  who  was  born  near 
Fredericksburg,  and  whose  residence,  **St.  Julien,'*  was  near 
by.  His  brother.  Dr.  Lawrence  Brooke,  was  surgeon  of  the 
Bon  Homme  Richard^  of  which  ship  another  Virginian,  Richard 
Dale,  was  first  lieutenant.     A  copy  of  this  letter  follows: 

**St.  Julien,  June  26,  1838. 
'*  My  Dear  Sir: 

**  I  have  received  your  letter  from  Richmond.  All  I  remem- 
ber of  John  P.  Jones  I  had  from  my  Brother,  Doctor  Brooke, 
who  was  surgeon  of  the  Bon  Homme  Richard  the  whole  of  her 
celebrated  cruise.  I  think  I  remember,  when  very  young,  to 
have  seen  him  in  the  year  1773.  I  was  at  school  in  Fred*g, 
and  his  brother,  William  Paul,  was  a  Scotch  tailor  who  made  my 
clothes.  On  his  death  John  came  to  Fred*g  to  adm.  on  his  prop- 
erty. I  then  saw  him  in  the  shop  when  I  went  for  my  clothes, 
this,  on  seeing  his  picture  years  after,  I  remembered;  it  is  amis- 
take  that  his  brother  was  a  merchant.  I  do  not  think  he  remained 
long  in  Fred*g;  the  next  year  I  think  he  was  employed  in  the 

navy. 

*  *  Yours  very  sincerely, 

Francis  T.  Brooke." 

[To  General  Wm.  Lambert,  Richmond.] 

The  other  papers  relating  to  the  grant  of  bounty  lands  to  the 
heirs  of  John  Paul  Jones,  are  on  file  in  the  Virginia  State  Land 
office. 

**Executive  Department,  Richmond,  Dec.  21,  1838. 

The  Heirs  of  John  Paul  Jones  are  allowed  Land  Bounty  for 
his  services  as  a  Captain  in  the  Continental  Navy  equal  in  rank 
to  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  Continental  Line,  for  a  service  of 
seven  years  and  ten  months  and  eleven  days. 

The  Register  (will)  issue  a  warrant  accordingly,  if  not  yet  here- 
tofore drawn. 

David  Campbell. 
Attest: 

Jno.  B.  Richardson. 

8725^      On  the  25th  October,  1839,  warrants  No.  8725  for  600 

8726  [-acres,  and  No.  8726  for  382  acres,  and  No.  8727  for 3,003 

8727  J  acres  issued  tp  Janette  Taylor,  devisee  of  said  Captain 


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John  Paul  Jones,  dec*d,  and  heir  at  law  of  Janette  and  William 
Taylor,  two  of  the  devisees  of  the  said  John  Paul  Jones,  de- 
ceased.'*    [^Land  Bounty  Warrants,  Vol.  3,  p.  474.] 

Janette  Taylor  was  the  author  of  a  life  of  John  Paul  Jones 
(N.  Y.,  1830),  **from  letters,  &c.,  in  the  possession  of  the 
author.** 


"  On  the  14th  day  of  November,  1839,  Exchange  warrants 
No.  417  for  510  acres,  and  No.  478  for  2,503!  acres  issued  to 
janette  Taylor,  devisee  of  John  Paul  Jones,  deceased,  and  heir 
at  law  of  Janette  Taylor  and  Wm.  Taylor,  devisees  of  the  said 
John  Paul  Jones,  dec*d.  The  above  warrants  issued  in  exchange 
of  original  warrant.  No.  8727.**  \^Land  Bounty  Warrants,  Vol. 
3.  P-  475-] 

*'S739^      O"  the  9th  day  of  December,  1839,  warrant  No.  8739 

8740  [- for  2,325  jV  acres  issued  to  Jane  Williamson,  Elizabeth 

8741  )  McKinnell,  Mary  Ann  Lowden,  George  L.  Lowden,  and 
Mary  Ann  Lowden,  Devisees  of  Captain  Paul  Jones,  deceased, 
warrant  No.  8740  for  5, 231!  J  acres  issued  to  Jane  Williamson, 
Elizabeth  McKinnell  and  Mary  Ann  Lowden  first  above  named, 
and  warrant  No.  8741  for  1,743!$  acres  issued  to  George  L.  Low- 
den and  Mary  Ann  Lowden,  devisees  of  the  said  John  Paul 
Jones,  deceased."     \^Land  Bounty  Warrants,  Vol.   3,  p.  476.] 


Norfolk  Borough: 

At  a  Hustings  Court  and  held  the  30th  day  of  January,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  thirty-nine. 
It  appearing  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  court  it  is  ordered  to  be 
certified  that  John  Paul  Jones,  an  officer  in  the  Continental  Navy 
during  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  died  in  the  City  of  Paris  about 
the  year  1792,  and  by  his  last  will  and  Testament  devised  all  his 
property  to  his  two  sisters,  Janette  Taylor  and  Mary  Ann  Low- 
den and  their  children  in  equal  proportions — that  at  the  time  of 
his  death  there  were  ten  devisees,  Janette  Taylor  and  her  two 
children,  Janette  and  William  Taylor,  and  Mary  Ann  Lowden 
and  her  six  children — and  that  it  further  appears  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  the  court  that  Janette  Taylor,  the  sisttr  of  the  said  John 
Paul  Jones,  and   William  Taylor,  her  son,   have  departed  this 


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life,  and  that  Janette  Taylor,  the  only  surviving  devisee  of  that 
branch  of  the  testator's  family  is  entitled  to  one-tenth  as  a  devi- 
see under  the  will  of  her  uncle,  the  said  John  Paul  Jones,  and 
to  two-tenths  as  representative  of  the  deceased  mother  and 
brother,  the  said  Janette  Taylor  and  William  Taylor  deceased. 

A  Copy — Teste: 

Jno.  Williams.  C.  C. 

[Addressed]  Genl.  William  Lambert,  Richmond.** 
[  Pa,  Land  O^ce  Files. ^ 

* 'Norfolk  Borough,  to-wit: 

This  day  Alexander  B.  Pinkham  personally  appeared  before 
me,  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  said  Borough,  and  made  oath  that 
he  is  well  acquainted  with  Miss  Janette  Taylor,  now  residing  at 
his  house  inOosport,  Virginia,  and  has  no  doubt  but  that  she  is 
the  niece  of  Commodore  John  Paul  Jones. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this  30  day  of  January,  1839. 

M.   King.      [Seal.] 
J.   P.  &  Mayor. 

I  am  well  acquainted  with  Lieutenant  Pinkham  of  the  navy 
who  has  sworn  to  the  above  affidavit,  I  believe  him  to  be  a  gen- 
tleman of  honor  and  veracity. 

M.   King.  J.  P.  &  Mayor. 

Norfolk,  January  30,  1839.     [  Va,  Land  Office  Files,'] 


[Inclosure  in  Preceding.] 

*'Va.  L.    Office,  Richmond,  Jan' y  24,  40. 
Sidney  S.  Baxter,  Esq. : 

D.  Sir — Mr.  Lowden  as  one  of  the  heirs  of  the  late  Capt.  Jno. 
Paul  Jones,  filed  in  this  office  certain  documents  which  entided 
him  and  others  to  obtain  their  military  warrants  due  for  the  ser- 
vices of  the  said  Jones,  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Mr.  Low- 
der  wishes  to  withdraw  this  documentary  evidence  to  establish 
a  certain  claim  in  Denmark.  I  wish  to  know  whether  it  would 
be  prudent  on  my  part  to  return  to  him  these  papers,  and  keep 
a  copy  of  them  on  file.     If  so  I  should  be  glad  to  accommodate 


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him.     Be  pleased  to  endorse  on  this  paper,  your  views  on  the 

subject. 

Respectfully, 

S.  H.   Parker. 

I  have  examined  the  papers  referred  to  above  and  think  that 
the  Register  may  with  propriety  suffer  them  to  be  withdrawn. 

S.  S.  Baxter,  Att>  Gen'l. 


**  Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I,  Janette  Taylor,  at 
present  residing  in  Gosport,  Virginia,  do  hereby  constitute,  nomi- 
nate and  appoint  William  Lambert,  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  my 
true  and  lawful  attorney,  to  demand  and  receive  from  the  proper 
officers  in  Richmond  or  Washington,  any  Land  Warrant  or  War- 
rants that  may  issue  on  account  of  the  Revolutionary  services  of 
Commodore  John  Paul  Jones  [&c.,  &c.] 

Janetta  Taylor,'*  [Seal.] 
Ninth  day  of  January,  1839.     [  Va,  Laud  Office  Files,'\ 


"  Being  called  upon  by  Miss  Janetta  Taylor,  to  say  what  I 
know  of  her  claims  as  devisee  of  the  late  John  Paul  Jones,  I 
have  to  state  that  although  I  am  not  acquainted  with  the  nature  or 
merits  of  these  claims,  I  know  that  Mrs.  Taylor  has  always  been 
represented  to  me  as  one  of  the  legal  devisees  of  the  said  John 
Paul  Jones  in  her  right  as  his  neice,  and,  moreover,  that  I  never 
knew  or  heard  of  her  relationship  in  that  degree  disputed  or 
even  doubted — and  further  I  fully  believe  in  the  truth  of  Miss 
Janette  Taylor's  relationship  to  the  deceased  John  Paul  Jones, 
as  aforesaid  set  forth. 

Maxwell  Trokes." 
Richmond,  21st  March,  1839.     \^Va,  Land  Office  Files, ^ 

There  are  also  among  the  papers  in  the  claim  filed  in  the 
Land  Office,  an  attested  copy  of  the  original  will,  in  French, 
dated  July  15,  1839,  by  Antoine  Boumet  Verron,  notary  in  Paris, 
with  the  certificates  of  the  Chef  du  Bureau  de  la  Chancellerie 
for  the  Department  of  Foreign  Affairs,  and  of  Daniel  Brent,  U. 
S.  Consul,  a  translation  made  by  Stephen  du  Ponceu,  notary 
public,  and  sworn  interpreter  of  foreign  languages  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Pennsylvania,  dated  Philadelphia,  December  ist, 


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1794,  and  copy  attested  by  Michael  Pray,  Register  of  Wills, 
Phil.,  February  15,  1839  [this  translation  was  published  in 
Janette  Taylor's  Life  of  Jones,  pp.  516-47];  legal  opinions  of 
Conway  Robinson,  and  Sidney  S.  Baxter,  Attorney-General  of 
Virginia,  on  the  validity  of  the  will,  and  two  depositions,  dated 
September,  1839,  by  James  Shortridge,  of  Maxwell  town,  parish 
of  Traqueer,  and  Stewartry,  of  Kirckudbright,  North  Britain; 
and  John  Gregan,  of  Dumfries,  N.  B.,  which  stated  that  John  Paul 
(Jones)  had  only  two  sisters,  Janet,  wife  of  Wm.  Taylor,  of 
Dumfries,  N.  B.,  watchmaker,  and  Mary,  who  married  first 
Robert  Young,  of  Whitehaven,  England,  mariner,  and  secondly, 
to  Mark  Lowden,  of  Stank,  parish  of  Rutherwell,  county  of  Dum- 
fries, and  that  Janet  Taylor,  died  many  years  before,  leaving  two 
children,  William,  who  died  about  21  years  before,  leaving  issue, 
and  Janet,  sometime  residing  in  Dumfries,  and  now  in  America; 
and  that  the  said  Mary  left  by  her  marriage  with  Robert  Young, 
two  daughters,  Jane,  relict  of  David  Williamson,  of  Dumfries, 
merchant;  and  Elizabeth,  relict  of  Thos.  McKinnell,  of  Minny 
hive,  in  the  county  of  Dumfries,  gentleman,  and  the  said  Mary 
had  by  her  marriage  with  Mark  Lowden,  four  children,  Samuel 
and  Nancy,  both  deceased,  Mary,  of  Glencaple  Quay,  in  the 
parish  of  Carlaverock,  county  of  Dumfries,  spinster;  and  John 
Lowden,  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  merchant,  who  died  many  years 
since,  leaving  two  children,  George  Leckie  Lowden,  late  of 
Charleston,  S.  C.  but  now  of  Liverpool,  and  Mary  Ann  Low- 
den, spinster,  also  formerly  of  Charleston,  and  now  of  Liver- 
pool. By  his  will  Jones  left  his  whole  estate  to  be  equally  di- 
vided between  his  two  sisters  and  their  children. 

It  should  be  added  that  Dr.  Craik,  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  Wash- 
ington's physician,  was  a  relative,  probably  a  son,  of  the  Mr. 
Craik,  of  Arbigland,  for  whom  John  Paul  Jones's  father  was 
gardener. 

It  would  seem  that  there  is  much  justice  in  the  claim  of  the 
citizens  of  Fredericksburg  that  if  the  remains  of  John  Paul  Jones 
are  brought  to  America,  they  should  be  placed  in  that  ancient 
town. 


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The  ^Vill  of  Charles  Lewis  of  The  Byrd,  1779. 


In  the  Name  of  God,  Amen ! 

I,  Charles  Lewis,  of  Goochland  County,  and  Parish  of  St. 
James  Northam,  being  of  sound  and  disposing  mind  and  mem- 
ory, do  make,  constitute  and  ordain  and  appoint  this  writing  to 
be  my  last  will  and  Testament,  in  manner  and  form  following — 
that  is  to  say : 

I  give  and  devise  and  bequeathe  to  my  beloved  wife,  Mary 
Lewis,  during  the  term  of  her  natural  life,  the  free  use  and  prof- 
its and  full  enjoyment  of  my  whole  estate  both  real  and  personal 
without  impeachment  or  waste,  and  after  her  decease,  I  give 
and  dispose  thereof  as  follows,  to-wit: 

I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  son  Charles  Lewis  and  his  heirs 
forever,  all  that  tract  of  land  on  which  I  now  live,  called  and 
known  by  the  name  of  the  Byrd  tract,  together  with  all  the  ap- 
purtenances; also  five  acres  of  land  which  I  purchased  of  Edward 
Rice,  also  my  still,* clock,  great  glass,  and  twenty  of  his  choice 
out  of  my  stock  of  cattle,  meaning  the  horned  or  black  cattle. 

It  is  my  desire  and  will  that  after  my  wife's  decease,  that  my 
son  Howell  shall  have  his  first  choice  of  all  my  negroes,  and  that 
my  son  Robert  shall  have  his  second  choice  of  all  my  negroes, 
and  that  after  my  son  Howell  and  my  son  Robert  have  so  made 
their  choice  of  a  negro  each,  that  there  shall  be  seven  of  my 
youngest  negroes  set  apart  from  the  other  slaves. 

I  give  and  devise  to  my  sons  John,  Charles,  Howell  and  Rob- 
ert, and  their  heirs  forever,  as  follows,  that  is  to  say  : 

To  my  son  John,  three;  to  my  son  Charles,  two;  to  my  son 
Howell,  one,  and  to  my  son  Robert,  one;  which  I  do  in  order  to 
make  the  number  of  the  slaves  to  those  sons  equal  to  what  I 
gave* my  son  James  in  his  life  time,  and  the  division  and  parti- 
tion of  the  said  seven  slaves  amongst  my  said  sons  John,  Charles, 
Howell  and  Robert,  I  desire  may  be  made  by  their  drawing  the 
names  of  the  said  slaves  by  lot,  or  otherwise,  as  they,  my  said 
sons,  can  agree. 

My  will  and  desire  further  is,  that  on  the  death  of  my  wife,  all 


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the  rest  and  residue  of  iny  estate  not  herein  otherwise  disposed 
of,  may  be  divided  into  eight  parts  or  portions,  and  one  of  those 
parts  or  portions  I  give  and  devise  and  bequeathe  to  each  of  my 
sons  and  daughters  respectively  or  their  heirs,  viz:  John  Lewis, 
Charles  Lewis,  Howell  Lewis,  Robert  Lewis,  Elizabeth  Kennon, 
Anne  Taylor  &  F^rances  Lewis,  and  the  other  eighth  part  or  por- 
tion thereof  to  the  sons  and  daughters  of  my  son  James  Lewis, 
deceased,  and  to  their  heirs  or  legal  representatives  respectively, 
and  lastly,  I  constitute  and  appoint  my  loving  wife,  Mary  Lewis, 
Executrix,  and  my  sons  John,  Charles,  Howell  and  Robert,  and 
my  friend  William  Holman,  Executors  of  this 'my  last  will  and 
testament,  hereby  revoking  and  disannulling  all  former  and  other 
wills  by  me  at  any  other  time  made,  desiring  that  my  estate  may 
not  be  appraised,  and  that  no  security  be  demanded  of  my  Ex- 
ecutors or  Executrix  on  the  probate  of  this,  my  last  will. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  affixed 
m^seal.  This  21st  day  of  September,  1779. 

Charles  Lewis.         [Seal.] 

Signed,  sealed  and  published  by  the  said  Charles  Lewis,  the 
Testator,  as  and  for  his  will  and  Testament,  in  presence  of  us, 
the  subscribers,  who  in  his  presence  and  at  his  request,  subscribed 
our  names  as  witnesses  thereto. 

Anna  Harrison,  Milley  Cobbs,  William  Harrison. 

At  a  Court  held  for  Goochland  County,  December  20th,  1779, 
William  Harrison  and  Anna  Harrison  proved  the  writing  to 
be  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of  Charles  Lewis,  Gent.,  de- 
ceased, which  was  thereupon  admitted  to  record. 

Tests:         Val.  Wood,  Clerk. 
A  copy  Teste: 

P.  G.  Miller,  Dept.  Clk.,  Goochland  Co.  Court. 

[Charles  Lewis,  of  **The  Byrd,"  Goochland  county,  was 
born,  according  to  the  Abingdon  parish,  Gloucester,  register, 
in  1696,  and  was  son  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Warner) 
Lewis,  of  *'  Warner  Hall  '*     He  married  Mary  Howell.] 


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ABSTRACTS  OF  VIRGINIA  LAND  PATENTS. 


Prepared  by  W.  G.  Stanard. 


(521)  Captain  Francis  Hooke  [i],  100  acres  in  Elizabeth 
City  county,  upon  the  Strawberry  Banks;  bounded  on  the  N. 
W.  by  a  creek  next  to  the  fort  field,  on  the  south  by  the  main 
river,  on  the  east,  by  the  land  of  Thomas  Oldis  [2],  and  north- 
west by  the  land  of  John  Neale;  said  land  being  in  the  tenure 
and  possession  of  Robert  Partin,  and  Gresham  Covell,  and  due 
to  the  said  Hooke  by  assignment  from  Captain  Thomas  Purifye, 
upon  record  under  this  patent.  The  said  land  having  been  for- 
merly granted  to  Purifye,  and  now  granted  by  Harvey,  August 
9»  1637. 

Deed  for  this  land,  dated  May  16,  1637,  ^^^m  Purifye  to  Hooke. 
Witnesses:  Robert  Evelin  [3],  John  Redman. 

NOTES. 

[i]  See  this  Magazine,  III,  22. 

[2]  Thomas  Oldis  was  **  commissioner  "  (justice)  of  Elizabeth 
City  county  in  1639,  and  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
in  the  same  year  {Robinson' s  Notes).  There  were  others  of  the 
name  in  Virginia;  but  apparently  of  another  emigration.  In  1665, 
William  Oldis  and  Jane  his  wife,  of  Nansemond  county,  made 
an  assignment  of  a  tract  of  land,  recorded  in  Isle  of  Wight,  and 
in  the  latter  county  is  a  deed,  dated  June  5,  1668,  from  Valentine 
Oldis,  citizen  and  apothecary,  of  London,  to  his  brother  William 
Oldis,  of  James  river  in  Virginia,  merchant. 

[3]  Robert  Evelin  or  Evelyn,  younger  son  of  Robert  Evelyn, 
of  Long  Ditton,  was  born  in  London,  January  31,  1592-3,  entered 
at  the  Middle  Temple  1620,  emigrated  to  Virginia  and  Maryland 
in  1634;  in  1637  returned  to  England;  but  came  again  to  Virginia 
in  the  same  year,  when  he  was  appointed  Surveyor  General  of 
the  Colony.  His  name  last  appears  in  1649.  He  was  the  author 
of  a  letter  descriptive  of  '*  New  Albion,"  printed  in  **  A  Descrip- 


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tion  of  the  Province  of  New  Albion."     See  **The  Evelyns  in 
America."  by  G.  D.  Scull,  Oxford  1881. 


(522)  Captain  Francis  Hooke,  Esq.,  of  the  council  of 
State;  50  acres  in  Elizabeth  City  county,  commonly  called  Pas- 
cairs  Neck,  lying  south  upon  Point  Comfort  Creek,  east  upon 
Fox  Hill,  west  upon  the  Indian  Stone  [i].  Due  him  by  assign- 
ment from  Mary,  widow  of  Thomas  Branstead.  Granted  by 
Harvey,  August  10,  1637. 

NOTE. 

[i]  Fox  Hill  is  still  a  well  known  locality  in  Elizabeth  City; 
but  can  any  one  tell  what  the  **  Indian  Stone*'  was. 


(523)  John  Chew,  gent.,  500  acres  in  the  county  of  Charles 
River,  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  river,  east  by  English's 
Creek,  W.  by  N.  by  Clarkson's  Creek.  Granted  him  by  an 
order  of  Council  [i]  for  the  adventure  of  himself  and  nine  per- 
sons (names  not  given)  to  Charles  River.  Granted  by  Harvey, 
August  6,  1637. 

note. 

[i]  At  this  time,  in  order  to  promote  settlement  along  Charles 
River  (York)  River,  special  grants  of  land  were  made. 


(524)  William  Prior,  gent.,  300  acres  in  Charles  River 
county,  bounded  on  the  northeast  by  the  river,  and  on  the  west 
by  south  by  the  land  of  Captain  Richard  Townsend  [i],  and 
west  by  north  by  his  own  land.  Due  for  the  adventure  of  him- 
self and  5  persons  (names  below)  the  first  year  to  Charles  River. 
Granted  by  Harvey,  August  11,  1637. 

William  Prior,  gent.,  Mrs.  Margarett  Prior,  uxor.,  Thomas 
Dilloe,  Jeffery  Merchant,  George  Leigh,  Rice  Davis. 

NOTE. 

[i]  Richard  Townshend,  member  of  the  Virginia  Council 
1636-45.     See  Ilayden' s  Virginia  Genealogies,  732. 


(525)  Bridges  Freeman,  900  acres  in  the  county  of  James 


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City,  on  the  west  side  of  Chickahominy  River,  opposite  the  land 
formerly  granted  him  and  Francis  Fowler,  and  adjoining  the 
place  commonly  called  the  "Firing  point"  [?].  Due  for  the 
transportation  of  i8  persons  (names  below).  Granted  by  Har- 
vey, August  II,  1637. 

David  Minton,  Wm.  Wilshere,  Jon.  Bridge,  Dawson  [?]  Jones, 
William  Nutt,  Francis  Aldridge,  Mathew  Williamson,  Catherine 
Leonard,  Jeremy  Stone,  Eliza.  Hart,  Richard  Sanders,  Thomas 
Smith,  James  Rigeson,  Eliza.  Hodges,  Mercy  Seawell,  Jon. 
Burden,  Robert  Flood,  William  Elkton. 


(^526)  Bridges  Freeman,  100  acres  on  Chickahominy.  Due 
for  the  transportation  of  Henry  Scott,  and  Richard  Wested  [?] 
a  servant.     Granted  by  Harvey,  August  12,  1637. 


(527)  Margarett  Rogers,  widow,  500  acres  in  the  upper 
county  of  New  Norfolk ;  300  acres  being  bounded  northerly  upon 
Crosse  Creek,  butting  upon  the  land  lately  belonging  to  Thos. 
Jordan;  the  other  200 acres  adjoining  said  land  towards  the  reedy 
swamp.  Due  for  the  transportation  of  10  persons  (names  below) 
who  were  transported  by  her  deceased  husband,  Edward  Rogers; 
but  if  her  child,  which  is  expected  to  be  born  lives,  the  land  is 
to  revert  to  said  child.     Granted  by  Harvey,  August  14,  1637. 

Jane  Davis,  Christ.  Thorpe,  Nicholas  White,  Jon.  Bordman, 
Jon.  Howe,  Thos.  Bulmur,  Randal  Jacobson,  Peter  Eaton,  Eliza- 
beth Joanes,  Francis  Champins. 


(528)  Margarett  Rogers,  widow,  200  acres  in  the  upper 
county  of  New  Norfolk,  on  Cross  Creek;  100  acres  adjoining 
the  land  lately  belonging  to  Thos.  Jordan,  and  the  other  100 
lying  on  the  north  side  of  the  creek.  Due  by  assignment  from 
Richard  Freeland  to  her  deceased  husband,  Edward  Rogers, 
with  same  proviso  as  preceeding  patent.  Granted  by  Harvey, 
August  14,  1637. 

Assignment  by  Richard  F^reeland  [mark]  to  Edward  Rogers, 
June  9,  1636.     Witnesses:  Thos.  Cocke,  John  Home. 


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The  study  of  our  old  county  records  has  thrown  new  light  on  many 
subjects  connected  with  our  history  *,  but  in  no  instance  has  a  greater 
revision  of  former  opinions  been  caused  than  in  regard  to  books  and 
reading.  Northern  and  English  writers  used  to  say  that  Virginians  were 
brave  and  hospitable;  but  given  up  to  the  pleasures  of  the  field,  the  card 
table,  and  the  race  track,  and  almost  entirely  without  acquaintance  with 
books.  Our  own  writers,  having  no  information  to  the  contrary  kept  a 
discreet  silence.  As  a  distinguished  Virginia  historian  said  not  long 
ago,  we  should  not  be  surprised  at  any  misrepresentation  by  persons 
outside  of  the  State,  for  we  had  furnished  them  no  data  upon  which  a 
correct  opinion  could  be  formed.  Now  all  students  of  Virginia  history 
are  aware  that  there  were  in  the  colony  a  number  of  libraries,  which,  for 
the  period,  were  quite  large  and  valuable;  but  even  a  friendly  writer, 
like  Mr.  Fiske,  seems  to  think  that  these  were  exceptional  cases,  and 
that  love  of  books  and  reading  were  confined  to  some  of  the  wealthiest 
and  best  educated  class.  Therefore  it  is  of  even  greater  interest  to  show 
Irom  the  county  records  how  widely  spread,  even  among  the  less 
wealthy  planters  was  the  possession  of  books,  and  that  literature  was  not 
confined  to  a  comparatively  few  wealthy  and  educated  planters.  The 
following  partial  list  taken  from  some  county  records,  contains  names  of 
l>ersons  of  various  grades  of  wealth  and  social  standing.  The  names  of 
owners,  county  and  date,  are  given.  The  dates  are  those  of  inventory 
or  probate  of  will: 

Henry  Fitzhugh,  Stafford,  1743— books  appraised  at  ;f  258.  7.  9. 

Rice  Hooe,  Stafford,  1748— three  vols.,  and  "a  parcel  of  old  books." 

Wm.  VVaugh,  Stafford,  1748 -"A  parcel  of  old  books,  at  /i.  7." 

John  Buckner,  Stafford,  1748—80  vols. 

Rev.  David  Stuart,  Stafford,  1749—48  titles,  including  Latin,  &c. 

Rawley  Travers,  Stafford,  1749— "books  old  and  new,"  at  21  sh..  6d. 

Robt.  Massey,  Stafford,  1753  — Mercer's  Abridgment,  and  **  a  parcel 
of  old  books  (ft)  8  sh." 

Philip  Ale.xander,  Stafford,  1753— "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  jC6. 

Rice  Hooe,  Stafford,  1757—7  titles. 

Travers  Cooke,  Stafford,  1759—8  vols,  named,  and  "a  parcel  of  old 
books,"  at/4.  8. 

George  Hedgman,  Stafford,  1760—4  titles. 

John  Peyton,  Stafford,  1760—'*  Old  and  new  books,"  at  ^2. 

Cadwallader  Dade,  Stafford,  1760 — 2  Bibles,  and  ''some  other  old 
books." 

Townshead  Dade,  Stafford,  1760— "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  10 sh. 


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Robt.  Alexander,  Stafford,  1704—2  Bibles  and  *'  a  parcel  of  old  books." 

Philip  Alexander,  Stafford,  1705— "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  80  lb. 
tobacco. 

Rev.  John  VV'augh,  Stafford,  1706 — books  at  3,000  lbs.  tobacco. 

Thomson  Mason,  Stafford,  1785—73  titles  (nearly  all  law)  and  in  Lou- 
doun county,  34  titles  (nearly  all  law). 

Robert  Burgess,  Stafford,  1762—10  titles,  Latin  Bibles  and  three  **old 
books." 

Rev.  John  Moncure,  Stafford,  1765 — 137  titles. 

Wm.  Walker,  Stafford,  1767—98  vols. 

Wm.  Fitzhugh,  Stafford,  1701— Leaves  two  sons  his  "  study  oi  books. 

Henry  Churchill,  Fauquier,  1762—**  Books"  at  /rfS.  19.  3. 

Duff  Green,  Fauquier,  1766—7  vols. 

Gilson  Foote,  Fauquier,  1770 — "A  parcel  of  books"  at  /"i.  10. 

Thos.  Harrison,  Fauquier,  1774 — 45  vols. 

Bartholomew  Vawter,  Essex,  1717— "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  15  sh. 

Leonard  Tarrent,  Essex,  1718 — "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  and  26  vols, 
of  others. 

VV^m.  Young,  Essex,  1719 — "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  £1. 

John  Talioferro,  Essex,  1720 — 21  vols. 

John  Chamberlain,  Essex,  1726— **  Books,"  at  £i. 

John  Hawkins,  Essex,  1726 — "A  parcel  of  old  books,"  at  £2.  5. 

Henry  Oswald,  Essex,  1726 — **  Books,"  at  ^3.  7. 

Rev.  John  Bagge,  Essex,  1726—"  Books,"  at  j£22.  i. 

Reuben  Welch,  Essex,  1729—290  vols.,  and  *'a  parcel  of  old  paper 
news  books." 

Robert  Jones,  Essex,  1729 — "A  parcel  of  law  books,"  at  £2.  10,  and 
•  Some  books  of  divinity,"  at  10  sh. 

Rev.  Lewis  Latane.  Essex,  1737— 112  titles. 

Wm.  Brooke,  Essex,  1734 — "Books,"  at  £4.  10. 

Wm.  Dangerfield,  Essex,  1735 — "Books,"  at  £1.  15. 

Thos.  Jones,  Essex,  1739—"  Books,"  at  j£2.  9. 

Robt.  Brooke,  Essex,  1745 — 138  titles. 

Wm.  Philips,  Essex,  1747 — 60  titles,  including  Greek  and  Latin. 

Daniel  Scott,  Cumberland,  1754—17  vols.,  at  j£4.  3. 

Benj.  Moseley,  Cumberland,  1757 — *  A  parcel  of  books,"  at  17  sh. 

Benj.  Harris,  Cumberland,  1760 — History  of  the  Bible,  2  books  of  di- 
vinity, and  "a  parcel  of  law  books." 

John  Peter  La  Villan,  Cumberland,  1768 — "A  parcel  of  French  books." 

John  Pleasants,  Cumberland,  1765—26  vols. 

John  Carlyle,  Cumberland,  1765 — "Sundry  books,"  at  £4.  10. 

John  Chastain,  Cumberland,  1762 — "A  parcel  of  physick  and  French 
books." 

Daniel  Stoner.  Cumberland,  1762 — 54  vols. 

Stephen  Mosby,  Cumberland,  1760 — 7  vols.,  at  /"i. 


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Arthur  Moseley,  Cumberland,  1771—23  vols,  (including  5  Latin). 

George  Carrington,  Cumberland,  1785—68  vols. 

Daniel  Cromer,  Goochland,  1735 — **A  parcel  of  old  books,*'  at  £1. 

Stephen  and  Martha  Chastain,  Goochland,  1740 — **A  parcel  of  French 
books." 

Jacob  Michaux,  Goochland,  1744— A  parcel  of  old  books. 

Stephen  Clement,  Goochland,  1746— A  parcel  of  old  books  at  4  sh., 
3d. 

John  Woodson,  Goochland,  1754— A  parcel  of  old  books  at  £2. 

Robert  Cauthom,  Goochland,  1755 — A  parcel  of  old  books  at  j8  sh. 

Thomas  Massie,  Goochland,  1755— Books  at  15  sh. 

Henry  VV^ood,  Goochland,  1757—47  vols. 

Mary  Farrar,  Goochland,  1758 — Old  books  at  10  sh. 

Zachariah  Bowls,  Goochland,  1761 — Books  at  4sh.  6d. 

Josiah  Hatcher,  Goochland,  1767— Old  books  at  5sh. 

John  Bibb,  Goochland,  1769— Books  at  £\,  12,  and  2  vols,  more  at 

£Z'  17. 

Noell  Burton,  Goochland,  1770 — Old  books  at  8sh. 

Thomas  Brooks,  Goochland,  1772— Books  at  5sh. 

Geo.  Thompson,  Goochland,  1 751— Old  books  at  7sh   6d. 

Rich'd  Pleasants,  Goochland,  1778 — Books  at  £2,  17. 

Alex.  Boyd,  Augusta,  1766 — 76  vols. 

Rev.  Thos.  Jackman,  Augusta,  1773 — About  200  titles. 

Lanty  Elliott,  Augusta,  1779— "Books." 

David  Stewart.  Augusta,  1767 — 18  vols. 

James  Stewart,  Augusta,  1772 — Books  at  £1.  5. 

Nicholas  Johnson,  Louisa,  1766 — Old  books,  at  10  sh. 

Abraham  Venable,  Louisa,  1769— Books  at  /rs.  7.  6. 

Sir  Wm.  Bickley,  Bart..  Louisa,  1771 — A  parcel  of  old  books. 

Mary  Barrett,  Louisa,  1785—16  vols.,  a  parcel  of  old  books,  and  par- 
cels of  old  law  and  physick  books. 

Thos.  Osborne,  Prince  William,  1737 — 5  small  old  law  books  and  a 
parcel  of  old  books. 

Wm.  Dunlop,  Prince  William,  1740 — 118  titles  (many  French >. 

John  Catlett,  Orange,  1745 — A  parcel  of  old  books  at  ;^i. 

Harry  Turner,  King  George,  1752— Books  at  /ii. 

Wm.  Thornton,  King  George,  1743— A  parcel  of  old  books. 

Rev.  Wm.  Key,  Lunenburg,  1764—82  titles  and  also  60  Latin  books 
and  also  pamphlets. 

Clement  Read,  Lunenburg,  1763— A  parcel  of  books  at  £20.  and  a  par- 
cel of  law  books  at  £^. 

Isaac  Read,  Charlotte,  1778—65  vols. 

Walter  Campbell,  Brunswick,  1751 — 11  vols,  named,  and  a  parcel  of 
old  books  at  £2. 

Sterling  Clack,  Brunswick.  1751—28  vols,  named,  a  parcel  of  old  books 


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at  2  sh.  a  parcel  of  law  books  at  /*4,  and  a  parcel  of  small  books  at 

/I.  5. 

John  Nevinson,  Brunswick,  1769—174  vols,  at  £28.  6.  4. 

VVm.  Carr,  Spotsylvania,  1760 — 22  vols. 

Wm.  Waller,  Spotsylvania,  1756 — 104  vols,  named,  2  parcels  of  old 
books,  I  parcel  of  very  old  books,  i  parcel  of  old  law  books. 

Henry  VVilles,  Spotsylvania,  '*A  parcel  of  old  books,  mostly  Lattin,** 
at/2. 

Ric'd  Tutt,  Spotsylvania,  1767—45  vols,  named,  and  a  parcel  of  old 
books. 

Dr.  Jno.  Suthe.land,  Spotsylvania,  1763—8  titles  and  67  vols,  medical 
books,  and  94  old  books. 

Dr.  Henry  Heath,  Spotsylvania.  177 1 — The  inventory  on  record  in- 
cludes 2  folio  pages  of  titles  of  books. 

Larkin  Chew,  Spotsylvania,  1729— Some  old  books,  at  10  sh. 

John  Waller,  Spotsylvania,  1754—137  titles. 

Richard  Johnson,  Spotsylvania,  1726  -A  parcel  of  old  books,  at  15  sh. 

Harry  Beverley,  Spotsylvania,  1731 — Books  at  ^f  10.  10. 

Ambrose  Madison,  Spotsylvania,  1733—28  vols. 

Joseph  Brock,  Spotsylvania,  1742—43  vols,  named,  and  also  28  small 
old  Latin  books. 

Dr.  David  Black,  Prince  George,  1783—223  vols. 

Wm.  Kennon,  Chesterfield,  1759 — Books,  at  /lo. 

Philip  Smith,  Northumberland,  1744— **  2  large  Bibles,  2  small  do., 
Tillotson's  Works,  Beverage's  Works,  several  books  of  law  &  physick, 
books  of  husbandry,  6  prayer  books,  several  other  sort  of  books." 

Adam  Menzies,  Northumberland.  1767 — 231  vols,  books  and  a  parcel 
of  old  books,  pamphlets  and  magazine — the  parcel  valued  at  £1.  5. 

Baldwin  M.  Smith,  Northumberland,  1761 — Books,  at/*i3. 

Peter  Jefferson,  Albemarle,  1757 — 24  titles. 

Rev.  James  Maury,  Albemarle,  1774—400  vols,  books  and  44  pamph- 
lets. 

Robt.  Bracewell,  Isle  of  Wight,  1668 — A  parcel  of  books  at  500  lbs. 
tobacco. 

John  Watson,  Isle  of  Wight,  1673— A  parcel  of  books. 

John  Godwin,  Isle  of  Wight,  1675— A  parcel  of  old  books. 

Giles  Driver,  Isle  of  Wight,  1677— A  parcel  of  books  at  700  lbs.  to- 
bacco. 

Thos.  Woodward,  Isle  of  Wight,  1678— A  parcel  of  books. 

John  Jennings,  Isle  of  Wight.  1679— A  parcel  of  books. 

Edm.  Wicken,  Isle  of  Wight,  1679 — A  parcel  of  books  at  170  lbs.  to- 
bacco. 

John  Bromfield,  Isle  of  Wight,  1681— A  parcel  of  books  at  800  lbs.  to- 
bacco. 


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Thos.  Pitt,  Isle  of  Wight,  1689 — A  parcel  of  books  at  400  lbs.  tobacco. 

Dr.  David  Parker,  Prince  George,  1717 — 244  vols. 

Jno.  Edmunds,  Sussex,  1770—100  titles  books,  and  20  pamphlets. 

The  records  of  the  counties  from  which  these  notes  were  taken  were 
not  examined  with  a  view  to  obtaining  this  information,  but  hasty  notes 
were  made,  during  the  course  of  examination  for  another  purpose.  So 
the  list  given  here  does  not  fully  represent  the  number  of  books,  even 
in  the  counties  named. 

Those  who  may  wish  to  go  further  into  the  matter  will  find  the  follow- 
ing references  in  the  IViiiiam  and  Mary  Quarterly:  I,  208;  II,  169,  175, 
247-251;  III,  43-45,  132-134.  180-182,  246-253:  IV,  15-17,  loi,  156,  269; 
V,  61,  107,  135;  VI,  6,  40-4',  44.  158-164;  VII,  14,  248,  253;  and  in  the 
Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography :  I,  422,  449,  471;  II,  225- 
226.  236,  237,  238,  277;  279;  III,  4  (2)  64,  271,  388-391;  IV,  164,  288-292, 
361,  407,  427,  428;  V,  40,  145.  167;  VI,_x».jXrXi4,  121,  146,  148,  ^i,  262. 


Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  and  Queries. 


punish.ment  of  a  slave  for  murder,  rockingham  countv, 
Virginia,  1778. 


Warm  Springs,  Bath  County,  \ k.,  January  24,  i8gg. 
Editor  of  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography. 

Dear  Sir, — In  reviewing  the  Barons  of  Potomac  and  Rappahan- 
nock^ by  Moncure  D.  Conway,  in  Vol.  I,  No.  2,  p.  222 — the  reviewer 
stated  that  there  was  no  historical  or  record  evidence  of  the  law  for 
quartering  slaves,  preserved. 

In  Vol.  I,  No.  3,  p.  328,  the  writer  publishes  the  refutation  of  his  own 
statement,  by  giving  a  transcript  of  record  of  Goochland  county,  show- 
ing a  sentence  pronounced  by  the  County  Court  25th  June,  1733,  ordering 
the  heads  and  quarters  of  two  negroes,  when  executed  to  be  set  up  in 
several  parts  of  the  county.  See  also  his  references  to  this  transcript  on 
pages  356,    *    358,    *    . 

While  at  Harrisonburg,  Rockingham  county,  in  December  last,  I 
found  the  record  of  a  trial  held  in  the  County  Court  in  1778,  condemning 
a  slave  to  be  hung  on  i8th  June,  1778,  and  his  head  to  be  severed  from 
his  dead  body  and  stuck  upon  a  pole  at  a  cross  road,  about  one  mile 
from  the  present  town.  I  herewith  hand  you  a  certified  copy  of  the  pro- 
ceedings. 

Yours  truly, 

|.  T.  McAllister. 


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At  a  Court  of  oyer  and  Terminer  held  for  Rockingham  County,  on  the 
Tryal  of  Will  a  Negro  man  Slave  belonging  to  George  Kessel,  ac- 
cused of  feloniously  murdering  Hans  Cloverfield,  Miller,  of  the  said 
parish  &  County. 

[Note. — No  date  given,  but  it  is  between  the  terms  held  26th  May, 
1778  and  22d' June,  1778.] 

Present: 
Daniel  Smith,  Henry  Ewing, 

John  Gratten,  Wm.  McDowell. 

John  Thomas, 

The  said  Slave  Will,  being  brought  to  the  Bar  &  arraigned,  pleaded 
he  was  not  guilty,  whereupon  several  Witnesses  being  examined  touch- 
ing the  fact  wherewith  he  stands  charged,  it  appeared  to  the  Court  that 
the  said  Will  gave  a  blow  with  a  hogshead  stave,  which  fractured  the 
scull  of  the  said  Hans  Cloverfield,  of  which  he  died  that  night,  &  there- 
fore do  judge  him  guilty  of  the  murder  with  which  he  is  charged  and  do 
accordingly  Order  the  said  Criminal  to  be  hung  by  the  neck  until  he  is 
dead  on  Thursday,  the  i8th  Instant,  at  the  Courth*o  of  this  County,  & 
that  his  head  be  severed  from  the  dead  body  &  stuck  upon  a  poll  at  the 
Cross  road  leading  from  this  to  Felix  Gilberts  &  his  body  buried  and  in 
the  meantime  that  the  said  Criminal  be  kept  in  Irons  well  secured  &  a 
Guard  of  four  men  to  keep  Centinel  over  him  untill  he  is  executed,  and 
that  the  Sheriff  do  put  the  above  Sentence  in  Execution,  and  the  Court 
do  value  the  said  Slave  Will  to  two  hundred  and  twenty  five  pounds, 
which  is  ordered  to  be  certified  to  the  next  Session  of  Assembly,  & 
then  the  Court  did  rise. 

Daniel  Smith. 

In  the  clerk's  office  of  the  County  Court  of  Rockingham  county,  Vir- 
ginia, December  8,  1898. 
I,  C.  H.  Brunk,  deputy  for  J.  S.  Messerley,  clerk  of  the  said  court,  do 
hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  from  the  County  Court 
orders,  as  shown  by  the  record  of  my  office. 
Given  under  my  hand,  this  8th  day  of  December,  1898. 

C.  H.  Brunk,  D.  C. 


Captain  William  Edmonds'  Company,  1761. 

FRANCIS  FAUQUIER,  Esq;  His  Majesty's  Lieutenant-Governour, 
and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Colony  and  Dominion  of  VIRGINIA: 

To  William  Edmonds,  Gent. : 

By  Virtue  of  His  Majesty's  Royal  Commission  and  Instructions,  ap- 
pointing me  Lieutenant-Governour,  and  Commander  in  Chief,  in  and 


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over  this  his  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virj^inia  with  full  Power  and  Au- 
thority to  appoint  all  Officers,  both  Civil  and  Military,  within  the  same: 

I,  reposing  especial  Trust  in  your  Loyalty,  Courage,  and  good  Con- 
duct, do,  by  these  Presents,  appoint  you,  William  Edmonds,  to  be  Cap- 
tain of  a  Company  of  militia  for  ye  County  of  Fauquier  whereof  Thos. 
Harrison  is  County  Lieutenant.  You  are  therefore  to  act  as  a  Captain 
by  duly  exercising  the  Officers  and  Soldiers  under  your  Command;  tak- 
ing particular  Care  that  they  be  provided  with  Arms  and  Ammunition, 
as  the  Laws  of  the  Colony  direct. 

And  you  are  to  observe  and  follow  such  Orders  and  Directions,  from 
Time  to  Time,  as  you  shall  receive  from  me,  or  any  other  your  superiour 
Officers,  according  to  the  Rules  and  Discipline  of  War,  in  Pursuance  of 
the  Trust  reposed  in  you. 


'     Seal     ) 

of  the    [ 

,  Colony.  J 


GIVEN  at  Williamsburg,  under  my  Hand,  and  the 
Stui/  of  the  Colony^  this  2^th  Day  of  August^  and  in 
the  first  Year  of  his  Majesty s  Reign.  Annoque 
Domini,  1761. 

Fran.  Fauquier. 


The  following  is  a  roster  of  Captain  William  Edmonds*  company  of 
Virginia  troops  in  the  French  and  Indian  War.  Captain  Edmonds  lived 
in  Fauquier  county,  and  it  is  believed  that  most  of  the  men  in  his  com- 
pany were  from  the  same  county: 

A  List  of  W.  Edmonds*  Company — iy6/. 


Martin  Pickett,  Lieut., 
William  Ransdale, 
William  Norris,  Ensign, 
Simon  Mo'gan,  Sergeant, 
Edmond  Baisley,  Sergeant, 
Thos.  Porter,  Sergt., 
John  Baisey,  Sergt., 
Jos.  Smith,  .Sergt., 
Samuel  Simpson,  Corporall, 
Edward  Ball,  cor  , 
Humphrey  Arnold,  corp., 
Joseph  Smith, 
Wm.  Underwood, 
Wm.  Smith,  senr., 
John  Miller, 
Thos.  Smith. 
Wm.   Robertson, 
Herman  Hitt, 
Henry  Martin, 


William  M.  Penison, 

Chattin  Lambkin, 

John  Morgan, 

James  Lampkin, 

William  Pickett,  Jnr., 

Thos.  Bell, 

Thos.  McClanahan, 

James  Bell, 

Jno.  Pickett, 

Jno.  Hitt,  Jnr., 

Jno.  Hitt,  son  of  Jos., 

Wm.  Gibson, 

Simon  Morgan, 

Law.  Taylor, 

Jos.  Taylor, 

John  Bai.sey, 

Jos.  Hudnall  , 

John  Hudnall,  Patrowler. 

Wm.  Norriss, 


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John  Hitt,  Carr  Bailey, 

Joseph  Hitt,  Wm.  White, 

Thomas  Jackman,  Jnr.,  Wm.  Willson, 

Jeffrey  lohnston,  Hugh  Jaquitt, 

Wm.  Smith,  Jnr.,  John  Blackwell, 

•-*Wm.  Ball,  Charles  Martin, 

Richd.  Jackman,  Peter  Taylor, 

James  Jeffries,  Henry  Boatman, 

John  Russell,  Jas.  Morgan, 

Joseph  Hollsclaw,  James  Oliver, 

Wm.  Bragg,  Chas.  Garner, 

Alexander  Jeffries,  Joseph  Carter, 

John  Boden,  George  Herrin, 

Stephen  Bailey,  Patrowler,  Jas.  Bailey, 

Wm.  Russell,  John  Duncan,  Jnr., 

Dan'l  Triplett,  Jas.  Pendleton. 

Sept.  25,  1761.  Thos.  Harrison, 

County  Lieutenant. 
Endorsed : 

Wm.  Edmonds's  Muster  list,  176!. 

[We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  A.  C.  Quisenberry,  Washington,  D.  C,  for 
the  above.  — Ed.] 


The  Virginia  Forces  Surrendered  at  Charleston  in  1780. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Virginia  Magazine  of  History,  &c.: 

I  have  been  for  a  good  many  years  interested  in  the  First  Regiment 
of  Virginia  regulars  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  for  it  was  Patrick  Henry's 
old  regiment.  I  often  wanted  to  know  where  it  went,  what  service  it 
saw,  and  what  became  of  it.  In  189 1,  I  read  William  Wirt  Henry's  Life 
of  Patrick  Henry,  and  when  I  discovered  from  Volume  I,  page  350,  ot 
that  Life,  that  the  4th  company  of  that  regiment  went  from  this  county 
(Isle  of  Wight),  and  that  its  officers  were  William  Davis,  captain;  Willis 
Wilson,  first  lieutenant;  Francis  Boykin,  second  lieutenant,  and  Jona- 
than Goodwin,  ensign,  I  was  more  than  ever  interested  in  it.  Mr.  Henry 
does  not  tell  us  its  history  subsequent  to  March  22,  1776,  and  so  we  are 
left  to  inference  for  its  later  exploits  and  fate. 

The  lieutenant-colonel  of  that  regiment  was  William  Christian,  and  its 
major  was  Francis  Eppes. 

The  colonel  of  the  Second  regiment  was  William  Woodford,  its  lieu- 
tenant-colonel was  Charles  Scott,  and  its  major  was  Alexander  Spots- 
wood.     Id. 

Marshall  in  his  Life  of  Washington,  Vol.  I,  page  "^p,  says:  '*The  de- 
fences of  Charleston  had  been  constructed  under  the  direction  of  a  Mr. 


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I^nmay,  a  French  gentleman  in  the  American  service,  and,  although 
not  calculated  to  resist  a  regular  siege,  were  far  from  being  contempti- 
ble. 

**  While  the  besiegers  were  employed  on  their  first  parallel,  the  garrison 
received  a  considerable  reinforcement.     General  Woodford,  who  had 
marched  from  Morristown  in  December,  entered  the  town  with  the  old 
Continental  troops  of  the  Virginia  line,  now  reduced  to  seven  hundred 
effectives.     General  Hogan,  with  the  line  of  North  Carolina,  had  arrived 
before  him.     The  garrison  consisted  of  rather  more  than  two  thousand 
regular  troops,  of  about  one  thousand  North  Carolina  militia,  and  of  the 
citizens  of  Charleston. " 
Irving,  in  his  Life  of  Washington,  Vol.  4,  page  73,  says: 
*'  On  the  7th  of  April  [1780]  Brigadier-General  Woodford,  with  seven 
hundred  Virginia  troops,  after  a  forced  march  of  five  hundred  miles  in 
thirty  days,  crossed  the  east  side  of  Cooper  river  by  the  only  passage 
now  open,  and  threw  himself  into  Charleston.     It  was  a  timely  rein- 
forcement, and  joyfully  welcomed,  for  the  garrison,  when  in  greatest 
force,  amounted  to  a  little  more  than  two  thousand  regulars,  and  one 
thousand  North  Carolina  militia." 
Light-horse  Harry  Lee,  in  his  Memoirs  of  the  War  of  '76,  p.  150,  says: 
"Shortly  before,  Brigadier-General  Woodford,  with  seven  hundred  of 
the  Virginia  line,  detached  from  the  main  army  by  General  Washington, 
entered  the  town."     [Charleston.] 

These  Virginia  troops  had  just  seen  their  hard  service  in  the  Jerseys, 
and  they  had  made  this  forced  march  to  Charleston.  They  were  sur- 
rendered on  the  1 2th  of  May,  1 780. 

Who  were  these  Virginia  troops  ?  To  what  regiments  did  they  be- 
long? 

This  last  May  (1899),  I  was  in  Charleston,  and  on  the  day  I  left  I  ex- 
pressed a  regret  to  Miss  Mary  Enders  Connor— one  of  the  talented  and 
exceedingly  clever  d^ughters  of  Mrs.  General  Connor— that  I  had  not 
been  able  to  go  to  the  library  of  the  city  of  Charleston,  and  find  out  the 
Virginia  troops  who  were  surrendered  in  Charleston  in  May,  1780.  She 
instantly  replied  she  would  endeavor  to  obtain  the  information  for  me, 
and  a  few  days  ago,  on  November  14th,  she  sent  me  from  Richmond  the 
enclosed  letter  of  General  McCrady,  with  the  information  desired,  which 
I  hope  you  will  publish  for  the  benefit  of  all  who  are  interested  in  Vir- 
ginia history. 

R.  S.  Thomas. 

7  Water  Street,  November  10,  i8gg. 

Mv  DEAR  Miss  Connor: 

I  have  iust  completed  my  chapter  on  the  siege  of  Charleston,  April 
and  May,  1780,  and  so  am  able  to  give  you  the  information,  which,  as  I 


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understand,  you  were  desired  to  obtain.     I  have  transcribed  this  from 
my  work.     Hoping  that  it  will  answer  your  purpose,  I  am 

Very  truly  yours, 

Edward  McCrady. 
Miss  Connor,  Meetings  St, 

Virginia  Troops  at  the  Siege  of  Charleston,  ij8o. 

General  officers— Brigadier-General  William  Woodford,  Brigadier- 
General  Charles  Scott — 2. 

1st  Virginia  Continental  Regiment 336 

2d        "                 •'                   **         306 

3d         "                 **                   •'         252 

1st       "        Detachments        "        258 

2d        •'                •*                   "        238 

4th       **        Continental          *'        none  but  officers  . .  6 

5th       -                 "                   •'                         "  6 

6th       *'                 '*                    "                         "  10 

7th       *♦                 **                    "                         '•  6 

8th       "                 "                    *'                         *'  4 

loth       *•                 **                    '*                         *•  9 

nth       "                 "                    '*                         •*  6 


Total  number  surrendered  at  the  capitulation  of  the  city,     1,433 

This  list  is  taken  from  the  return  of  the  British  Adjutant-General,  the 
famous  Major  Andr^.     (Moultrie's  Memoir,  Vol.  2,  1 14.) 

Besides  these,  Lieutenant-Colonel  William  Washington,  with  the  re- 
mains of  Baylor  and  Bland's  Virginia  Continental  Cavalry  Regiment  was 
outside  of  the  city;  Colonel  Abraham  Buford's  nth  Virginia  Continental 
Regiment  was  on  its  way  to  the  city,  and  attempting  to  escape  upon  its 
fall,  was  overtaken  by  Tarleton  and  cut  to  pieces. 

There  were  none  but  Virginia,  North  and  South  Carolina  troops  on 
the  American  side  during  the  siege.     Of  these,  the  South  Carolina 

troops.  Continental  and  city  militia  amounted  to ii9i6 

And  general  staff 54 

North  Carolina  Continentals 815 

North  and  South  Carolina  militia 1,231 

Virginia  Continentals i,433 

Miscellaneous 217 

Civil  officers 18 

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Eppes  Family. 

Secretary  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  Richmond,  Va: 

VV^ill  you  kindly,  in  some  subsequent  issue,  make  this  addenda  to 
the  Eppes  j^enealoji^y  ?    (Iff,  281,  39^,  &c. ) 

The  family  of  John  \V.  Eppes,  of  Eppesville,  Prince  George  county, 
Virginia,  descend  from  Colonel  Peter  Epes.  of  High  Peak,  who  was  de- 
scended from  Colonel  Frant  is  FI;»pes. 

Susan  Epes,  sixth  child  of  Colonel  Peter  and  Mary  Poythress.  married 
John  /i^^/'5  ( notice  difference  in  spelling,  and  yet  they  are  said  to  be  one 
and  the  same  name.)  By  reference  to  "  Visitations  to  Canterbury,  Kent, 
England,"  we  find  one  William  Eppes,  member  of  Parliament,  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  reign,  which  rather  sanctions  the  use  of  the  latter  spelling. 
John  Eppes,  who  married  Susan  Epes,  sixth  child  of  Colonel  Peter  E!pes, 
was  one  of  the  Hopewell  Eppes.  He  had  issue:  John,  Daniel,  Susan, 
&c.  John  Eppes  (1)  (of  Eppesville^  had  issue.  He  married,  fir^t, 
Lucy  Poythress,  daughter  of  Peter  Poythress,  of  Branchesler;  no  issue. 
Married  second  time  to  Hannah  Roane,  of  Charles  City  county,  and  had 
issue: 

(1)  |ohn;'  William  of  (Eppesville);  (2)  James  Roane,  died  young;  (3) 
♦Elizabeth  Frances,' died  young.    John '^  VV^illiam  Eppes,  married  Mary 
Virginia  Batte,  daughter  of  John  Henry  Batte,  of  Wood  Lawn,  and  had 
issue: 

(1)  Virginia  Elizabeth,  died  young;  (2)  Virginia  Elizabeth,  married 
Colonel  Joseph  P.  Minetree  (Col.  41st  Va.,  C.  S.  A.),  and  had  issue: 
Mary  Virginia,  married  Dr.  H.  B.  Hollifield,  of  Georgia;  Louisa  Gib- 
son, married  Mr.  George  F)vans,  of  Alexandria;  John  Eppes;  Joseph 
Powhatan;  Martha  Batte;  Elizabeth  Eppes;  James  l^wrence;  George 
McPhail;  Claudia  Hains;  Henry  Batte  and  Robert  Hill  (twins),  died  in 
infancy.  One  of  the  brothers  of  the  elder  John  Eppes,  was  the  father 
of  Dr.  Peter  Eppes,  of  Prince  George  county,  Va. 

Mrs.  Dr.  Theo.  (jilliam,  of  Prince  George  county,  and  Mr.  Peter  Eppes, 
of  Richmond,  Va.,  are  children  of  Dr.  Peter  Eppes. 


Lord. — John  Lord,  born  in  England  about  1625,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Dorothy  Lord,  who  came  to  flarlford,  Connecticut,  in  1636-7,  removed 
to  Appomattox,  Virginia  before  1648.  He  is  named  in  his  mother's  will 
in  1669.  Is  there  anything  more  known  of  his  ancestry  ?  Are  there  any 
descendants  of  his  now  living  ?  If  so,  will  they  kindly  address  Mrs.  Eve- 
lyn MacCurdy  Salisbury,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

[There  is  a  nt)te  on  John  Lord,  of  Appomatox — now  Mattox — West- 
moreland, and  his  son  Wm.  Lord,  in  this  Magazine,  Vol.  I,  200 — Ed.] 


WiLLOUGHBY— What  was  the  name,  before  marriage,  of  the  wife  of 
Colonel  Mainwaring  Hammond,  of  Virginia  ?    What  is  known  of  their 


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ancestry  and  of  their  birthplaces  ?  Was  Captain  Lawrence  Hammond, 
of  Massachusetts  their  son  ?  Will  some  of  their  descendants  kindly  give 
their  address  to  Mrs.  Evelyn  MacCurdy  Salisbury,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


Thomas  Hooker — Mentioned  in  **  Hotten's  Lists,"  as  living  at  James 
City,  in  1624.     Information  desired  in  regard  to  him  and  his  descendants. 


Parker  Correction  (See  April,  1899,  number,  page  416)— Margaret 
Shepherd  Ker,  only  daughter  of  George  Ker,  of  *'  Cessford,"  Scotland, 
and  Sarah  Parker,  his  wife,  married  Rev.  )ames  Stratton,  of  Connecti- 
cut. 


Parker  Family— In  the  account  of  this  family  published,  mention  is 
made  of  Thomas  Parker,  of  Essex,  and  Robert  Parker  also.  I  had  an 
ancestor,  Robert  Parker,  whose  daughter,  Anne,  married  Thomas  Wins- 
low  on  August  15,  1694. 

Robert  Parker  was  sheriff  in  1714  of  Essex  county.  He  had  four  chil- 
dren: Anne,  who  married  Thomas  Winslow;  Elizabeth,  who  married 
John  Watkins;  Francis  and  John  Parker. 

Was  this  the  same  family  as  the  one  you  write  of?  Anything  you  can 
tell  me  will  be  greatly  appreciated  by 

Mrs.  H.  N.  L.,  Charlotte,  N,  C 


Orr— Luke— Wanted — The  parentage  and  native  State  of  John  Orr, 
who  married  Susannah  Luke,  in  Frederick  county.  Virginia,  December 
I,  1785.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Kentucky  and  served  in  War  of  1812 
from  that  State.  Also  anything  concerning  Peter  Luke,  father  of  Su- 
sannah Luke. — H.  O.  E. 


Clergy  Ordained  and  Licensed  for  the  American  Colonies 
FROM  1699  to  1710. 

[The  following  list  is  copied  from  Notes  and  Queries,  5th  series.  Vol. 
IX.,  March  22,  1884,  p.  221. 

It  is  compiled  from  an  original  book  of  subscriptions  to  the  Act  of 
Uniformity,  &c.,  in  the  diocese  of  London,  preserved  in  the  Rawlinson 
MS.,  B.  375,  in  the  Bodleian  Library. 

The  colonies  then,  as  now,  were  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop 
of  London. 

A  further  note  says  that  the  number  of  Scotchmen  may  well  be  owing 
to  the  fact  that  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Scotland  had  only  just  been  dis- 
established.] 

Augustin  Walbank,  for  Maryland,  March  5,  1698-9.  Robert  Owen, 
Maryland,  Aug.  12,  1699.  William  Rudd,  Virginia,  Aug.  12,  1699. 
Jonathan  White,  Maryland,  Sept.  25,  1699.    Thomas  Allardes,  Virginia, 


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Sept.  27,  1699.  Alexander  Walker,  Virginia,  Sept.  29,  1699.  Thoma.s 
Sharp,  Virginia,  Oct.  2,  1699.  Solomon  Whately,  Virginia,  Oct.  1 1,  1699. 
George  Young,  Virginia,  Oct.  13,  1699.  Edward  Marston,  Carolina, 
Oct.  13,  1699.  John  Saunders,  Virginia,  Oct.  24,  1699  Peter  Kippax, 
Virginia,  Nov.  1,  1699.  Emanuel  Jones,  Virginia,  May  28, 1700.  James 
Basken,  Virginia,  July  16,  1700.  Evan  Evans,  Philadelphia,  July  6,  1700. 
John  Eraser,  Virginia,  Aug.  29,  1700.  Thomas  Burnett,  Virginia,  Aug. 
30,  1700.  Bartholomew  Yates,  Virginia,  Sept.  10,  1700.  David  Bethun, 
Maryland,  Sept.  30,  1700.  William  Andrews,  Virginia,  Oct.  4,  1700. 
Richard  Marsden,  Maryland,  Oct.  22,  1700.  John  Carnegie,  Virginia, 
Oct.  26,  1700  Lewis  Latane,  Virginia.  Dec.  2,  1700.  Hugh  Jones, 
Maryland,  Feb.  23,  170?.  Gabriel  d'Emilliane,  Maryland,  April  11,  1701. 
Humberston  Baron,  Maryland,  April  26,  1701.  John  Sharpe,  Maryland, 
April  26,  1701.  Robert  Keith,  Maryland,  April  26,  i7or.  John  Edwards, 
Maryland,  May  10,  1701.  William  Tibbs,  Maryland  May  10,  1701. 
John  Lockier,  Rhode  Island,  Nov.  11,  1701.  Edmond  Mott,  New  York, 
I>ec.  27,  1 701.  Patrick  Gordon,  New  York,  March  30,  1702.  Giles 
Ransford,  Maryland,  June  22.  1702.  George  Macqueen,  Maryland,  June 
22,  1702.  John  Barlow,  New  York,  June  22,  1702.  Arthur  Tillyard, 
Virginia,  June  23,  1702.  Samuel  Thomas,  Carolina,  July  2,  1702. 
Thomas  Edwards.  Virginia,  Oct.  2,  1702.  Richard  Squire,  Virginia, 
Oct.  2,  1702.  James  Smith,  Virginia,  January  25,  i7of.  James  Hony- 
man,  Long  Island,  March  23,  170}.  Henry  Nichols,  Uplands  in  Penn- 
sylvania, July  27,  1703.  Isaac  Grace,  Virginia,  July  21,  1703,  James 
Wolton,  Maryland,  Aug.  3,  1703.  Alexander  Adams,  Maryland,  Aug.  9, 
1703.  Peter  VV^agener,  Maryland,  Aug.  9,  1703.  John  Blair,  Carolina, 
Aug.  II.  1703.  William  Barclay,  New  England,  Aug.  11,  1703.  Owen 
Jones,  Virginia,  Aug.  17.  1703.  Thomas  Pritchard,  New  York,  Nov.  15, 
1703.  Thomas  Crawfurd,  Dover  Hundred,  Pennsylvania,  Feb.  7,  170J. 
Alexander  Stuart,  Bedford,  New  York.  Feb.  7,  170J.  William  Urqu- 
hart,  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  Feb.  12,  170?.  Thomas  Moore,  Amongst 
the  Iroquois  Feb.  25,  170?.  John  Clubb,  Pennsylvania,  April  13,  1704. 
Matthew  Buchanan,  New  York,  July  31,  1704.  Edward  Butler,  Virginia, 
Feb.  26,  170J.  John  Brooke,  East  Jersey,  March  15,  170J.  Henry  Jen- 
nings, Maryland,  March  28,  1705.  Henry  Ogle,  Virginia,  April  5,  1705. 
Aeneas  Mackenzie,  Staten  Island,  New  York,  April  17,  1705.  George 
Ross,  Newcastle,  Pennsylvania,  April  17,  1705.  William  Guy,  New 
York,  June  6,  1705.  Samuel  Gray,  Maryland,  Sept.  28,  1705.  Andrew 
Auchinleck,  Carolina,  Jan.  10,  170J.  William  Dun,  Carolina,  Jan.  12, 
170$.  Richard  Shepheard,  Virginia,  Feb.  24,  i7of.  William  Cordiner, 
Maryland,  March  20,  170 J.  Thomas  Jenkins,  Apoquiminick,  in  Penn- 
sylvania, April  2,  1707.  William  Black,  Sussex,  in  Pennsylvania,  April 
7,  1707.  Robert  Maule,  South  Carolinia,  April  28,  1707.  Christopher 
O' Bryan,  Virginia,  May  2,  1707.  Jonathan  Evans,  Virginia,  May  27,  1707. 
Alexander  Wood,  Carolina,  May  29,  1707.     Thomas  Barclay,  New  York, 


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May  31,  1707.  James  Adams,  North  Carolina,  Sept.  27,  1707.  William 
Gordon,  North  Carolina,  Sept.  27,  1707.  Francis  Mylne,  Virginia,  Nov. 
3,  1707.  Gideon  Johnston,  Carolina,  Nov.  26,  1707.  James  Hindman, 
Maryland,  Feb  21,  170;.  William  Glen,  Maryland,  Feb.  21,  170^.  John 
Lepierre,  Carolina,  Feb.  23,  170I.  Robert  Forbes,  Carolina,  Mar.  13, 
i7oi.  Robert  Scot,  Maryland,  March  19,  170I.  John  Maitland,  Carolina, 
March '19,  1701.  John  Cargill,  Virginia,  April  28,  170I.  Henr>^  Harris. 
Boston,  May  14,  1708.  James  Tennant,  Virginia,  May  25,  1708.  James 
Honyman,  Rhode  Island,  July  8,  1708.  John  Skaife,  Virginia,  Sept.  9, 
1708.  Benjamin  Goodwin,  Virginia,  March  5,  170J.  Roger  Lewis,  Vir- 
ginia, April  20,  1709.  James  Reynolds,  Rye,  New  York,  April  26,  1709. 
Edward  Vaughan,  East  Jersey,  iMay  3,  1709.  Robert  M'Noe,  Virginia, 
June  19,  1709.  William  Brody,  Virginia,  June  19,  1709.  Tanaquillus 
Faber,  Virginia,  June  19,  1709.  Andrew  Boyd,  Virginia,  June  19,  1709. 
Andrew  Agnew,  Virginia,  June  19.  1709.  Edward  Hudson,  Virginia, 
June  19,  1709.  Samuel  Wallis,  Virginia,  August  8,  1709.  Robert  Pax- 
ton,  Virginia,  Oct.  2f,  1709.  William  Finney,  Virginia,  Oct.  29,  1709. 
James  Gignillat,  Santee,  in  South  Carolina  Nov.  12,  1709.  John  Fred- 
erick Haeger,  among  the  Palatines,  in  New  York,  Dec.  20,  1709. 
Thomas  Poyer,  Jamaica,  in  Long  Island,  Dec.  23,  1709.  John  May. 
Virginia,  Jan.  4.  i70i*5.  John  Jamessone,  Virginia,  Feb.  7,  i70nj.  John 
Urmston,  Nortli  Carolina,  Feb.  8,  i70ny.  Alexander  Forbes,  Virginia, 
March  6,  170/5. 

RoBards  Family.— The  incomplete  list  of  names  of  soldiers  in  the 
Revolutionary  War  from  Virginia,  furnished  in  the  July  number,  page  24, 
of  the  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  leads  me  to  supply 
you  with  the  following  names  of  five  brothers,  who  were  soldiers  in  the 
Revolutionary  War  from  Goochland  county,  Virginia. 

1.  John  RoBards,  colonist  from  Wales,  1710;  planter,  testator,  1755. 

2.  His  only  son,  William  RoBards,  Sr.,  planter  ;  member  of  Commit- 
tee of  Safety,  177s  ;  testator,  1785 ;  his  five  sons,  viz  : 

3.  a.  Ensign  William  RoBards,  Jr.,  severely  wounded  at  Camden  ;  in 
Captain  P^dmund  Curd's  Company,  Colonel  Lucas*  Regiment. 

b.  John  RoBards,  in  General  Nelson's  command. 

c.  Captain  Lewis  RoBards,  in  General  Nelson's  command. 

d.  Captain  Geo'-ge  RoBards,  in  Captain  Edmund  Curd's  Company, 
Colonel  Lucas*  Regiment. 

e.  Jesse  RoBards,  in  General  Nelson^s  command. 

The  foregoing  is  authentic.  The  military  data  is  from  records  in  the 
War  Department  at  Washington. 

Captain  George  RoBards  married  Elizabeth  Barbara  Sampson,  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  Sampson  and  Ann  (Porter)  Sampson,  his  wife,  daughter 
of  Captain  Thomas  Porter  and  Elizabeth  (DuToisi  Porter,  a  Huguenot, 
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est,  Mrs.  Cathrine  RoBards  Stirman,  widow  of  Hon.  James  H.  Stirman, 
lives  in  Fayetteville,  Arkansas,  is  the  living  daughter  of  a  gallant  officer 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  is  eighty-four  years  old.  Mrs.  Catharine 
RoBards  Stirman  is  a  member  of  the  National  Society,  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  and  by  reason  of  her  lineage  received  from 
that  patriotic  order  a  gold  souvenir  spoon. 

(Copy.) 

Department  of  the  Interior, 
Bureau  of  Pensions. 
Washington,  D.  C,  June  23,  1893. 
Sir, — In  reply  to  your  request  for  a  statement  of  the  military  history 
of  George  RoBards,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  you  will  please 
find  below  the  desired  information  as  contained  in  his  application  for 
pension,  on  file  in  this  Bureau. 

Enlisted  February,  1777;  served  three  years  as  sergeant  under  Cap- 
tain Moses  Hawkins  and  Colonel  Charles  Lewis,  Virginia. 

Enlisted  as  lieutenant,  1780 ;  served  six  months  under  Captain  Edmund 
Curd  and  Colonel  Lucas,  Virginia. 

Enlisted  as  lieutenant  January,  1781  ;  served  three  months  under  Cap- 
tain Larkin  Smith,  Virginia. 

Enlisted  as  lieutenant  and  captain  May,   1781  ;  served  six  months 
under  General  Lafayette  against  Cornwallis. 

He  was  appointed  captain  probably  about  August,  17S1,  and  served 
as  such  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

Battles  engaged  in — Brandywine,   Germantown,    Monmouth,   Stony 
Point  and  Camden. 
Residence  of  soldier  at  enlistment — Goochland  county,  Va. 
Date  of  application  for  pension — September,  1832. 
Residence  at  date  of  application — Mercer  county,  Ky.,  where  resided 
since  1791. 
Age  at  date  of  application — Not  stated. 
Remarks — His  pension  was  allowed. 

Very  respectfully, 

Wm.  Lochren, 
Cotnmissioner, 
John  L.  RoBards,  Esq.,  Hannibal,  Mo. 

November,  1896. 
Mem. — Captain  George  RoBards,  born  August  5,  1760,  died  testate 
July  13,  1833,  aged  73  years.  He  enlisted  in  his  16th  year  in  the  14th 
Virginia  Regiment  Continental  line.  He  was,  in  his  19th  year,  commis- 
sioned by  Governor  Thomas  Jefferson  lieutenant  in  the  4th  Virginia 
Regiment  State  line.  In  the  battle  of  Camden,  his  brother  William,  by 
his  side,  was  severely  wounded.  He  was  commissioned  captain  in  1781, 
and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

John  Lewis  RoBards, 
Vice-President  Missouri  Society  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution. 


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Management  of  Slaves,  1672. 

(From  the  Records  of  Surry  county,  Va.) 

Atte  a  courte  houlden  at  South warke  for  ye  county  of  Surry  ye  4th 
day  of  September,  1672,  Annoque  Reg.  Car.  2d,  24,  &c. 

Present— The  Hon'ble  Coll.  Tho.  Swann,  Esq. 
Lt.  Coll.  Geo.  Jordan.  Mr.  Robt.  Caufield, 

Capt.  Law.  Baker,  Capt  Robt.  Spencer, 

Maj'r  Wm.  Browne,  Mr.  Benj.  Harrison, 

Justices. 

Mathias  Marriott  haveinge  in  Contempt  of  an  order  of  y'"  Court, 
grounded  upon  an  Act  of  Assembly  for  ye  restraint  of  serv'ts  walking 
abrod  on  Sundayes  or  other  dayes,  given  his  negro  a  Note  to  goe  abrod 
&  haveing  noe  business,  and  alsoe  renderinge  scurrilous  language  to  ye 
Co'rt  both  yesterday  &  to-day,  ye  s'd  Marriot  is  ord'd  to  pay  unto  ye 
sherife  for  ye  use  of  ye  county  two  hund'd  p'ds  of  Tob'o  &  Caske,  w'th 
Costs  als.,  exec. 

Whereas  information  hath  been  given  to  y'*  Court  y"  ye  too  Careles 
and  inconsiderate  Liberty  given  to  Negroes,  not  only  in  being  p'mitted 
to  mete  together  upon  Satterdayes  &  Sundayes,  whereby  they  wine 
opportunity  to  consult  of  unlawful  p'jects  &  combinations  to  ye  danger 
&  damage  of  ye  neighbours,  as  well  as  to  theire  Masters,  and  Also  that 
ye  apparrell  comonly  worne  by  negroes  doth  as  well  High  ten  theire 
foolish  pride  as  induse  them  to  steale  fine  Linninge  &  other  ornaments, 
for  ye  p'vention  whereof  itt  is  hereby  ord'd  &  published  to  ye  Inhabi- 
tants of  y "  county  y*^  ye  Act  of  Assembly  for  p'vention  of  serv'ts  goeing 
abroad  be  put  in  due  execution  &  from  hence  forth  Noe  negro  shall 
be  allowed  to  weare  any  white  Linninge,  but  shall  weare  blew  shirts  & 
shifts  y''  y"^  may  be  herby  discovered  if  y**  steale  or  weare  other 
Linninge,  &  if  ye  Master  of  any  Negro  shall  p'tend  y*  blew  is  not  to  be 
had  for  men  &  women  Negros  for  theire  shifts  &  shirts,  caps  or  neck- 
clothes,  y*"  he  shall  supply  y'*  want  in  Course  Lockerham  or  Canvis,  & 
y'"  to  be  duly  observed  untill  a  by  law  be  made  to  confirme  ye  same. 

[Several  persons,  besides  Mathias  Marriott,  who  was  a  man  of  some 
prominence,  were  before  the  court  at  this  time  charged  with  allowing 
their  negroes  too  much  liberty.  Act  VIII,  Session  of  1672,  the  pream- 
ble to  which  recites  "that  many  negroes  have  lately  been  and  now  are 
out  in  rebellion  in  sundry  parts  of  this  country,"  seems  to  not  have  been 
carefully  obeyed  by  the  people.]  • 


How  Was  Berkeley  Made  Governor  in  1660? 

As  is  well  known,  Beverley  and  those  who  followed  him,  stated  that 
Sir  William  Berkeley  was  replaced  in  office  in  1660.  by  a  popular  upris- 


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ing  of  the  Virginians  who  were  tired  of  the  rule  of  Parliament  and  Pro- 
tector, and  that  he  proclaimed  Charles  II  as  king.  Burk  and  Hening, 
who  seem  anxious  to  prove,  even  at  that  early  date,  a  love  for  republi- 
can principles,  reject  utterly  these  statements,  and  Hening  even  disa- 
grees with  Burk's  conjecture  that  Berkeley  received  his  authority  from  a 
tumultuous  assemblage  of  **  Cavaliers  and  aristocrats."  The  act  of  As- 
sembly, passed  March  13,  1659-60,  appointing  Berkeley  governor,  seemed 
to  the  editor  of  our  statutes  at  large,  decisive  evidence  against  Burk's 
suggestion.  But  it  is  never  safe  to  make  positive  statements  from  record 
evidence,  unless  it  is  known  that  all  records  have  been  examined.  It 
now  seems  almost  certain  that  Burk  was  right  in  his  conjecture,  and 
that  Berkeley  was  placed  in  the  gubernatorial  chair  by  a  popular  upris- 
ing. There  is  among  the  records  of  Lower  Norfolk  county,  at  Ports- 
mouth, Va.,  an  order  of  the  Governor  and  Council  dated  March  9,  1659- 
60,  appointing  a  sheriff  for  the  county.  In  the  transcript  from  the  council 
minutes,  copied  in  the  Norfolk  records,  Sir  William  Berkeley  appears  as 
governor.  This  was  four  days  before  the  meeting  of  Assembly,  which 
on  its  first  day  chose  Berkeley  Governor  and  Captain-General  of  Virginia, 
doubtless  to  give  more  legal  effect  to  what  the  people  had  already  done. 


Railev   FAMiLv.^ohn  Railey  came  from  England  and  settled  at 

Stone  Henge,  in  Chesterfield  county,  Va.     In  1752  he  married   Bettie 

^  Randolph,  sister  to  Thomas  Jefferson's  mother,  and  daughter  of  Colonel 

Isham  Randolph,  of  Goochland  county.     She  died  September  11,  1782, 

and  John  Railey  died  October  4,  1783. 

They  left  seven  sons  and  three  daughters:  i.  Thomas  Railey,  born 
September  22,  1754;  2.  Isham  Railey,  bom  July  16,  1758;  3.  William 
Railey,  bom  December  26,  1760;  4.  Jane  Railey,  born  August  9,  176^; 
5.  Charles  Railey,  bom  October  28,  1766;  6.  Elizabeth  Railey,  born 
April  26,  1757;  7.  Anna  Railey,  born  September  26,  1759;  S-  James 
Railey,  born  April  16,  1762;  9.  Martin  Railey,  born  October  27,  1764: 
10.  Randolph  Railey,  born  May  14,  1770. 

Martin  Railey  (9)  married.  February  27,  1794,  Elizabeth  Mayo,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Wm.  Mayo,  of  Powhatan  county,  Va.,  of  Revolutionary 
memory.  He  died  December  28,  1810,  and  his  widow,  Elizabeth  Railey, 
died  January  27,  1856.  Martin  Railey  had  Captain  Lilbum  R.  Railey,  of 
Albemarle  county. 

Captain  Lilburn  R.  Railey  married  Jane  E.  W.  Burks  January  28,  1825, 
and  died  Febmary  4,  1890. 

Thomas  Railey  (i)  married  December  21,  1786.  Martha  Woodson, 
daughter  of  Colonel  John  Woodson,  of  Goochland  county. 

From  Railey  family  Bible. 

Information  wished  about  the  other  sons  and  daughters  of  John  Railey 
and  Bettie  Randolph. 

A.  G.  Grinnan. 


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Walker. — ^The  undersigned  is  ver>'  anxious  to  obtain  some  informa- 
tion of  General  William  Walker,  known  as  **The  Fillibuster."  He  was 
bom  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  May  8,  1824.  His  father,  James  Walker,  was 
a  5>cotchman,  who  was  first  a  merchant  and  then  president  of  the  Com- 
mercial Insurance  Company,  at  Nashville.  His  mother's  name — Norvell 
—would  indicate  that  she  also  was  Scotch.  Would  like  to  know  W^il- 
liam  Walker's  grandfather's  name,  who  he  married,  place  of  residence, 
etc.  Also  names  of  William  Walker's  brothers  and  sisters,  whether  he 
was  married  or  not,  and  if  so,  were  there  children.  The  data  is  wanted 
for  a  geneological  history  of  the  Walker  family,  soon  to  be  published. 

Would  also  like  to  know  names  of  ancestors  of  William  Walker  who 
was  stolen  from  his  home  in  Rockbridge  county,  \'a.,  about  1781,  by 
the  Indians.  He  was  then  eleven  years  old  and  was  adopted  and  raised 
by  the  Wyandotte  Indians,  took  an  active  part  in  the  mission  work 
at  Upper  Sandusky,  and  was  always  honorable  and  upright  in  all  his 
dealings  with  his  adopted  people,  also  with  the  white  people  in  that 
vicinity.  His  son  William  married  and  raised  a  large  and  respectable 
family.  He  was  also  instrumental  in  establishing  missions  wherever  the 
wanderings  of  his  tribe  found  them  located  for  any  length  of  time.  He 
was  for  some  time  secretary  to  General  Lewis  Cass.  He  was  made 
Governor  of  Kansas  Territory  in  1853.  The  Territor>'  then  embraced 
what  is  now  Kansas  and  Nebraska.     He  died  in  1874. 

Mrs.  J.  B.  White, 
630  Humbolt  Ave.,  Kansas  City ^  Mo, 


Griffen. — Did  William  Griffen,  of  Portsmouth,  England,  in  1662, 
remove  afterwards  to  Virginia  with  his  wife  Anna  ?  If  so,  did  they  have 
a  daughter  Elizabeth  ?  What  was  the  maiden  name  of  the  wife,  and  will 
descendants  of  theirs  kindly  address — 

Mrs.  Evelyn  MacCurdv  Salisbury, 

New  Haven,  Conn, 


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COLONEL  WILLIAM  FITZHUGH, 

Thb  Immigrant, 

1698. 


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GENEA1.0GY. 

THE  FITZHUGH  FAMILY  * 

(continued.) 

To  what  has  been  said  in  regard  to  Colonel  William*  Fitzhugh,  the 
immigrant,  in  the  last  number  of  the  Magazine,  may  be  added  the  fol- 
lowing from  the  British  Public  Record  Office : 

**June  14,  1682.  Minutes  of  Board  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  The 
addresses  of  the  Assembly  and  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  and  several 
speeches  of  Mr.  Fitzhugh  were  read,  showing  the  people  are  extremely 
desirous  of  a  cessation  of  planting-tobacco." 

In  a  letter  dated  April  22,  1686,  he  describes  his  dwelling  house: 

*'Upon  this  same  land  is  my  own  dwelling  house,  furnished  with  all 
accommodations  for  a  comfortable  and  gentle  living,  with  rooms  in  it, 
four  of  the  best  of  them  hung  [with  tapestry],  nine  of  them  plentifully 
furnished  with  all  things  necessary  and  convenient,  and  all  houses  for 
use,  furnished  with  brick  chimneys,  four  good  cellars,  a  dairy,  dove  (k>t, 
stable,  bam,  henhouse,  kitchen  and  all  other  conveniencys,  and  all  in  a 
manner  new,  a  large  orchard  of  about  2,500  apple  trees,  m  st  grafted, 
well  fenced  with  a  locust  fence,  which  is  as  durable  as  most  brick  walls, 
a  garden  a  hundred  foot  square,  well  paled  in,  a  yard  wherein  is  most 
of  the  aforesaid  necessary  houses  pallisadoed  in  with  locust  puncheons, 
which  is  as  good  as  is  if  it  were  walled  in,  and  more  lasting  than  any  of 
our  bricks.*' 

Mr.  Bmce  in  his  admirable  Economic  History  0/  Virginia,  makes  fre- 
quent use  of  the  Fitzhugh  letters— see  the  index  of  that  work. 

Colonel  William,'  and  Sarah  (Tucker)  Fitzhugh  had  surviving  issue 
(named  in  his  will). 

9.    William;*  10.  Henry;*  ir.   Thomas;*  12.   George ;  13.  John. 

9.  William'  Fitzhugh  {MWiam*),  of  "Eagles  Nest,"  Stafford  (now 

King  George  county),  was  born ,  and  died  in  the  winter  of  1713-14. 

He  inherited  under  his  father's  will  18,723  acres  of  land  in  Stafford  and 
Westmoreland;  was  residuary  legatee  of  all  lands  not  bequeathed,  and 
rights  to  lands  in  Virginia,  Maryland  and  England;  eight  negroes;  18  pieces 
of  silver  plate;  ^"200  sterling  out  of  his  father's  money  in  England;  half 
the  household  furniture;  **  my  own  and  my  wife's  pictures,  the  other  six 
pictures  of  my  relations,  and  the  large  map  in  the  study  "  (  W.  F/s  will)^ 


•  The  portraits  of  Henry  FitzhuRh,  of  Bedford,  Enj?  ,  Wm.  Fitzhugh  the  immigrant, 
Henr>*  Fitzhugh  his  son,  and  of  Mrs.  Knox,  which  will  appear  later  are  copies  (mm  the 
large  and  interesting  collection  of  ancestral  portraits  belonging  to  Mr.  Douglas  H. 
Thomas,  of  Baltimore. 


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half  his  father's  **  study  of  books,  **  &c.  He  was  appointed  clerk  of  Staf- 
ford county,  July  i8,  1701,  and  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
for  that  county  1700,  1701  and  \702\Stafford  Records),  Possibly  he  was 
a  member  in  other  years.  On  December  13,  171 1,  the  Lords  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  presented  a  representation  to  the  Queen,  recommending 
William  Fitzhugh,  Esq.,  as  a  person  fully  qualified  to  fill  a  vacancy  in 
the  Council,  being  a  good  estate,  and  being  well  affected  towards  her 
Majesty's  government  {Saiftsbury  Abstracts).  The  appointment  made 
on  December  19  and  Fitzhugh  took  the  oaths  in  Virginia,  October  15, 
1712  I  Council  Journal).  His  tenure  of  office  was  short,  for  his  last  ap- 
pearance in  Council  was  in  November  8,  1713,  and  January  27,  1713-14, 
there  is  an  entry  in  the  Council  Journal  that  he  was  dead.  Besides  the 
offices  named,  VVm.  Fitzhugh  was  a  justice  of  Stafford,  and  high  sheriff 
in  1707.  If  he  made  a  will  it  was  doubtless  recorded  in  Stafford,  but 
the  books  of  that  date  have  been  lost.  He  married  Ann,  daughter  of 
Richard  Lee,  Esq.,'  of  Westmoreland  county  (member  of  the  Council). 
She  married  secondly,  Captain  Daniel  McCarty,  of  Westmoreland  county, 
speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgeses  1715-20.  In  her  will  dated  November 
7, 1728,  probated  Westmoreland  county  May  31 ,  1732,  she  names  her  son 
Colonel  Henry  Fitzhugh,  brother  Henry  Fitzhugh,  brothers  Thomas, 
Henry  and  Richard  Lee,  her  daughter  Lettice,  Elizabeth  daughter  of 
Major  John  Fitzhugh,  her  daughter  Sarah  Fitzhugh,  &c. 

Issue  (Fitzhugh) :  14.  Henry, ^  15.  Lettice,*  born  July  15,  1707,  died 
February  10,  1732,  married.  May  16,  1727,  George Turberville,  of  **  Hick- 
ory Hill,"  Westmoreland.  Her  tomb  remains  there,  and  its  long  iascrip- 
tion  was  printed  in  the  William  &  Mary  Quarterly^  VIII,  95;  16.  Sarah,* 
bom  1710,  died  October,  1743;  married,  January  5,  1735-6  (S/.  Paul's 
P'sh  Pe^.),  Edward  Barradall,  Attorney-General  of  Virginia.  They 
are  buried  in  the  same  tomb  in  Bruton  churchyard,  Williamsburg,  Va. 
The  epitaph  has  been  printed  in  Virginia  Historical  Society  Collections. 

The  tomb  bears  the  arms  of  Barradall  and  Fitzhugh  empaled. 

10.  Henry'  Fitzhugh  {lVilliam*\,  of  **  Bedford,"  was  bom  Jan.  15, 
1686-7,  died  Dec.  12,  1758  {Family  Bible).  He  inherited  under  his 
father's  will  i7,S98  acres  in  Stafford,  7  negroes,  6  pieces  of  plate,  ;f  120 
sterling  out  of  his  father's  money  in  England,  half  the  books,  &c.,  &c. 
He  was  high  sheriff  of  Stafford  1715.  and  member  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses for  that  county  in  1736  (  Fa.  Hist.  Register,  IV,  136).  His  F>or- 
trait  has  been  preserved.  He  married  Feb.  24,  1718,  Susanna,  daughter 
of  Mordecai  Cooke,  of  Gloucester  Co.  (who  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  for  that  county  in  1714). 

Issue  :  17.  William*,  born  Dec.  17,  1719,  died  unbaptized  ;  18.  Ann*, 
born  March  8,  1720-21,  baptized  by  Rev.  Giles  Rannford,  and  had  for 
sureties  Mr.  Henry  Butler,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Berryman,  and  Mrs.  Barbara 
F'itzhugh.  She  died  April  18,  1789.  She  married  Nov.  6,  1740,  the  dis- 
tinguished minister  Rev.  Robert  Rose,  of  Essex,  and  afterwards  of  St. 


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OF  Bedford. 

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Anne's  Parish,  Albemarle.  Her  portrait  has  been  preserved ;  19. 
Henry*;  20.  Thomas*;  2\.  John*  \  22.  William*  \  23.  Sarah*,  bom 
Aug.  21,  1729;  twin  with  William;  24.  Elizabeth*,  born  18,  1736. 

11.  Thomas*  Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford  Co.;  clerk  of  that  county  in  17 15. 
He  married  Ann,  widow  of  William  Darrall,  and  daughter  of  Col. 
George  Mason  (2d»,  of  Stafford.  He  inherited  under  his  father's  will 
4»334  acres,  7  negroes,  7  pieces  of  silver  plate,  £\2q  sterling,  &c.,  &c. 
The  will  of  Thos.  Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford,  proved  in  Richmond  Co.  1719, 
names  his  wife  Ann,  daughter  Mary,  and  brothers  George,  John  and 
Henry  Fitzhugh.  But  it  is  evident  that  a  son  was  born  after  the  will 
was  made,  for  in  Richmond  Co.,  Nov.,  1723,  Ann,  widow  of  Thomas 
Fitzhugh,  was  appointed  guardian  of  Henry,  his  **  younger  son  and  heir." 
None  of  the  accounts  of  the  family  give  any  notice  of  his  descendants, 
so  it  is  probable  that  the  son  and  daughter  died  young. 

12.  George*  Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford,  inherited  under  his  father's 
will  5,975  acres,  7  negroes,  7  pieces  of  silver  plate,  ;f  120  sterling,  &c., 
&c.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  that  county  in 
1718  (Ka.  Hist.  Reg.,  IV,  18).  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Col. 
George  Mason  (2d)  of  Stafford  (who  in  his  will  dated  17 15  names  his 
son-in-law  George  Fitzhugh),  and  died  intestate  about  1722  (Stafford 
Records  . 

Issue:  24.  George*,  died  unmarried  {Stafford  Records);  25.  Wil- 
liam  *. 

13.  Major  John'  Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford  Co.,  inherited  under  his 
father's  will  2,273  acres  of  land,  7  negroes,  8  pieces  of  silver  plate,  ;f  120 
sterling,  &c.,  &c.  He  married  on  or  before  17 19,  Anna  Barbara, 
daughter  of  Daniel  McCarty,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  (by 
his  ist  marriage),  and  died  Jan.  21st,  1733. 

Issue:  26.  William*;  27.  Daniel,  born  June  27,  1733(5/.  Paul  Reg,); 
28.  Sarah,  born  April  30,  1727  {SI.  Paul  Reg.);  29.  Elizabeth*,  named 
in  will  of  Mrs.  McCarty,  1728,  as  **  daughter  of  Major  John  Fitzhugh"; 
30.  Barbara*,  married  Feb.  6,  1739  (SI.  Paul  Reg.)  Rev.  William  Mc- 
Kay, minister  of  Hanover  Parish,  King  George  Co.  The  Va.  Gazette^ 
in  a  notice  of  the  marriage,  calls  her  "  daughter  of  the  late  Major  John 
Fitzhugh,  of  Stafford  Co."  ;  31.  John?  (a  John  Fitzhugh,  said  to  be  "of 
the  Marmion  branch,"  married  Jan.  31,  1760,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  Harrison,  of  "Brandon,"  Prince  George  Co.  He  was  cer- 
tainly not  the  son  of  George*,  nor  of  Thomas',  nor  was  he  the  same  as 
John  Fitzhugh  of  **  Belair,"  son  of  Henry*.  So,  from  a  consideration 
of  all  the  evidence,  it  seems  probable  that  he  was  a  son  of  Major  |ohn 
Fitzhugh). 

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Virginia  than  members  of  the  London  family  of  Ferrar,  or  Farrar,  and 
few  deserve  to  be  held  in  greater  honor. 

The  older  writers  state  that  this  family  was  of  Yorkshire  descent,  and 
was  nearly  related  to  Robert  Ferrar,  Bishop  of  St.  Davids,  who  was  a 
native  of  that  county,  and  suffered  martyrdom  in  1555,  during  the  Marian 
persecution;  but  at  present  the  line  has  only  been  traced  to  Hertfordshire. 

In  1570  John  Farrar,  of  the  town  of  Hertford,  was  taxed  on  jC(to.  6.  8. 
On  August  13,  1590,  administration  on  the  goods  of  John  Ferrar,  of 
Hertford,  was  granted  to  his  widow  Mary.  This  John*  Ferrar  was  the 
father  of  Nicholas*  Ferrar,  Sr.,  of  London.  The  books  of  the  Skinners* 
Company  show  that  at  Michaelmas,  1564,  Nicholas  Ferrar,  son  of  John 
Ferrar,  of  the  town  of  Hertford,  was  apprenticed  to  John  Harxey,  skin- 
ner and  merchant  adventurer,  that  he  took  up  his  freedom  December, 
1574;  became  a  member  of  his  company,  and  was  its  master  in  1613. 

Nicholas'  Ferkar,  born  1544,  died  April.  1620,  was  an  eminent 
merchant  of  London,  and  a  leading  member  of  the  Virginia  Company, 
He  traded  extensively  to  the  East  and  West  Indies,  and  other  parts  ot 
the  world,  and  was  the  friend  of  many  of  the  eminent  men  of  the  day. 
Raleigh,  Hawkins,  Drake  and  Sandys,  were  frequently  his  guests.  At 
his  house  in  St.  Sythe's  Lane,  meetings  of  the  Virginia  Company  were 
often  held.  By  indenture  dated  2d  March,  1607,  Nicholas  Ferrar,  of 
London,  Skinner,  bought  from  Wm.  Allen,  of  London,  Esq.,  for  ^1,000, 
a  house  in  St.  Syth's  Lane,  parish  of  St.  Bennet  Sherehog,  "now  in  the 
possession  of  said  F'arrar,"  and  on  June  ist,  1608,  he  bought  from  the 
same  person  for  ;f  20,  '*all  that  chamber  now  in  the  holding  of  said  Wm. 
Allen,  scituate  and  being  over  the  gate  of  the  great  messuage,  now  in  the 
tenure  of  said  Nicholas  Ferrar."  The  purchase  of  this  "great  chamber 
over  the  gate,"  was,  PVrrar  says,  "for  the  meetings  of  the  Virginia 
Company." 

Carter's  Life  of  Nicholas  F'errar  [Jr.],  (1892),  gives  the  following  in 
regard  to  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Sr.,  and  his  wife: 

"  Nicholas  Ferrar,  the  elder,  was  a  fair  type  of  the  great  merchants  of 
London,  well  born,  loyal  (he  'was  written  Esquire  by  Queen  Elizabeth,' 
in  return  for  lil)eral  assistance),  hot  tempered,  generous  hearted,  a  man 
of  wide  sympathies,  gathering  many  of  the  notable  men  of  the  day  round 
the  hospitable  table  of  his  fine  house  in  the  City  ;  a  zealous  Churchman, 
repairing  and  seating  at  his  own  expense,  his  parish  church  of  St.  Sythes, 
and  providing  a  morning  preacher  for  the  same.  Mr.  Ferrar's  portrait 
by  Janssen,  is  to  be  seen  at  Cambridge,  in  the  Master's  Lodge  of  Mag- 
dolen  College,  a  fine  open  face  with  uprightness  and  honesty  in  every 
line.  His  wife  Mary  W  oodenoth,  of  the  ancient  family  of  the  Woode- 
noths,  of  Shavington,  was  a  remarkable  woman,  gifted  with  the  same 
power  of  impressing  her  personality  on  those  around  her,  which  was  one 
of  the  most  marked  characteristics  of  her  son  Nicholas.  Her  portrait 
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the  exquisitely  fair  complexion,  the  noble  and  serious  countenance,  suit 
well  with  the  description  which  is  given  of  her  in  the  memoir  of  her  son. 

"We  are  told  that  she  was  beautiful,  bright  haired  and  fair,  even  to 
her  eightieth  year  [at  her  death,  in  1634,  she  is  said  to  have  been  in  her 
83d  year],  highly  educated,  of  a  strong  judgement,  a  wise  and  even 
temper,  so  that  her  choleric  husband  declared  that,  in  their  five  and  forty 
years  of  married  life,  she  had  never  given  him  cause  for  anger ;  a  woman 
who  did  not  talk  much,  but  whose  word  was  law  in  her  little  world,  and 
whose  discreet,  careful,  charitable  life  was  grounded  in  a  deep  love  and 
study  of  the  will  of  God.** 

Nicholas*  Ferrar  married  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Woodnoth,  of 
Shavinton,  Cheshire. 

The  following  is  the  pedigree  of  the  family  of  Woodnett,  or  Wood- 
noth, condensed  from  the  Visitation  of  Cheshire,  giving  successive 
generations  from  father  to  son:  i.  Robt.  Woodnett,  Ump,  Henry  III ; 
2.  Wm.  Woodnett,  the  first  of  Shevington ;  3.  Randall  Woodnett,  of 
Shevington ;  4.  Robt.  Woodnett,  living  temp.  Edward  III ;  5.  Randall 
Woodnett,  marrifd  Eva,  daughter  of  John  Brow  ;  6.  John  Woodnett, 
living /^w/.  Richard  II,  married  Margery,  daughter  Thos.  Trobbleshall ; 
7.  John  Woodnett,  of  Shevington,  living  temp.  Henry  VI,  married 
Margery,  eldest  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Weaver,  Esq.  ;  8.  George 
Woodnett,  of  Shevington,  living  temp.  Edward  IV,  married  Anne, 
daughter  Robert  Corbett,  of  Atherton  ;  9.  Lawrence  Woodnett,  died  in 
Ireland  4th  year  of  Henry  VII ;  married ]o\q.^^  daughter  Thos.  Wilbram, 
of  Woodhey,  Esq.  ;  10.  George  Woodnett,  of  Shevington,  married, 
first,  Maud,  daughter  Ralfe  Wood,  of  Badersley,  Esq. ;  second,  Anne, 
sbter  of  Rich.  Starkey,  of  Stretton,  and  widow  of  Boroughs  ;  11.  Mary, 
wife  of  Nicholas  Farrer,  of  London. 

Following  is  an  abstract  of  the  will  of  **  Nicholas  Farrar,**  citizen  and 
skinner,  of  London.  Legacies  :  £100  to  the  erecting  a  college  in  Vir- 
ginia for  the  conversion  of  infidels'  children  unto. Christian  religion,  to 
be  disposed  of  at  the  advice  of  Sir  Edwin  Sandys  and  my  son,  John 
Farrar.  To  St.  Thomas*  Hospital,  £\o.  To  Christ's  Hospital,  £^. 
To  St.  Bartholomew  Hospital,  /s.  To  Brydwell  (Bridewell  hospital 
and  prison),  £%.  To  the  poor  of  Harford  (Hertford*,  where  I  was  bom, 
£\o.  To  the  Company  of  Skinners,  three  or  four  silver  bowls  to  drink 
in,  to  the  value  of  20  marks,  and  20  marks  to  make  them  a  dinner.  To 
my  friend  and  partner,  Sir  Thomas  Middleton,  a  ring.  Other  legacies 
to  friends:  To  my  cousin,  Mary  Stead,  a  ring  of  gold.  To  my  daughter 
Farrar,  my  great  gilt  basin  and  ewer.  To  my  son,  John  Collett,  and  his 
wife,  my  basin  and  ewer.  To  Mary  Collett,  their  daughter,  £%qo.  To 
the  rest  of  my  daughter  Collett's  children,  £20  apiece.  To  my  grand- 
child, Nicholas  Farrar,  £\qo.  To  my  son  John,  the  house  where  I  now 
dwell  in  St.  Benet,  Sherehog,  but  my  wife,  Mary,  to  enjoy  the  same  so 
long  as  she  lives.  To  my  son  Nicholas,  my  house  at  Hertford  called  the 
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Bell,  after  the  decease  of  his  mother.  To  my  wife,  Mary,  one-third  par 
of  all  my  goods.  One  other  third  to  niy  sons  Niche  las  and  Richard, 
and  the  other  third  to  my  sons  John,  Nicholas  and  Richard.  To  the 
poor,  75  gowns,  which  is  my  age.  Dated  23d  March,  1619 ;  proved  in 
the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  4th  April,  1620,  by  Nicholas  Fer- 
rar,  the  son  and  executor  nominated. 

Abstract  of  the  will  of  Mrs.  Mary  Farrar  mentions  that  she  purchased, 
by  deed  dated  30th  May,  1625,  lands  in  Little  Gidding,  in  the  names  of 
her  son,  Nicholas  Farrar,  and  nephew,  Arthur  Woodenoth.  Her  son 
Nicholas  to  pay  all  debts  out  of  the  estate,  and  statement  that  Arthur 
had  released  all  his  cbim  to  her  son,  Nicholas.  Nicholas  to  pay  Marie 
Collett,  one  of  the  children  of  Susanna  Collett,  £50  a  year  for  10  years. 
To  her  granddaughter,  Margaret  Collett,  £$0.  The  residue  to  her  sons, 
Nicholas  and  John.  To  her  cousin,  John  Collett,  /*io.  To  her  hus- 
band's niece,  Marie  Steed,  a  great  silver  salt,  and  to  her  sister  Wright, 
£2,  and  to  her  cousin,  John  Farrar,  their  brother,  /*3.  Dated  July  29, 
1628;  proved  July  12,  1634. 

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THE  BOOKER  FAMILY. 

(CONTINUED.) 

21.  John*  Booker  {Richard'^,  Richard^)  removed  to  Amelia,  was 
justice  of  that  county  in  1769,  sheriff  in  177S,  and  in  1786  was  presiding 
justice  of  the  county  court.  In  the  Amelia  records  is  a  deed  from  him . 
to  his  nephews,  Richard  Booker,  Jr.,  and  Thos.  Barrett,  in  1785.  He 
married,  Aug.  8,  1748,  Phoebe  VVorsham.  John  Booker  died  in  1795,  and 
as  he  probably  had  provided  for  his  children,  his  will,  dated  July  20, 
and  proved  in  Amelia  Sept.  24,  1795,  only  contains  bequests  to  his 
grandchildren,  John/ Ann,  Betty,  Patty  and  William  [children  of  his 
son  John]. 

Issue  :  48.  Richard*,  born  July  2^d,  1747,  served  in  the  Revolution  as 
Captain  in  the  Continental  Line.  He  married,  but  left  no  issue,  and  by 
his  will,  proved  in  Chesterfield  county  in  1793,  left  half  his  estate  to  his 
nephew,  Richard,  son  of  John  Booker,  Jr.  ;  49.  Judith*,  bom  November 
24,  1748;  married  (?)  October  22,  1761,  Peter  Bland?  {Marriage  bond^ 
Amelia) ;  50.  John*. 

26.  Edmund*  Booker  {Edmund^,  Edmund'^,  Richard^),  of. Amelia, 

born  ,  died  1795.     He  was  a  justice  of  Amelia,  and  probably  he, 

rather  than  his  father,  was  the  Edmund  Booker  who  represented  the 
county  in  the  Convention  of  1788.  He  married,  in  Januar>',  1781,  Mary 
Pride  {Marriage  bond,  Atnelia).  In  his  will,  dated  September  15,  and 
proved  in  Amelia  October  22,  179^,  he  states  that  his  children  were 
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Edith  Cobbs,  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Jane ;  brother,  Parham  Booker,  an 
executor. 

Issue:  51.  Edmund*;  52.  Joseph*;  53.  Edith  Cobbs*;  54.  Sarah*; 
55.  Jane*;  56.  Elizabeth*. 

27.  Davis*  Booker  {Edmund^,  Edmund^,  Richard^),  of  Amelia, 

was  bom  ,  and  died  in  1802.     He  was  member  of  the  House  of 

Delegates  for  that  county  in  1788;  a  justice,  and  sheriff,  1797-98.     He 

married ,  daughter  of  Wm.  Bibb,  of  Prince  Edward  county.     In 

his  will,  dated  October,  1801,  and  proved  in  Amelia  October  28,  1802, 
he  names  the  children  given  below. 

Issue:  56.  Sally*;  57.  Nancy  Davis* (Booker);  58.  Polly  Bibb  (Booker) ; 
59.  Richard  Davis*  (Booker).  There  is  in  Amelia  a  marriage  bond, 
December,  1823,  for  Richard  D.  Booker  and  Mary  Jane  Ford. 

Of  33.  Edward*;  34.  Richard  Marot* ;  35.  Parham*;  36.  John*;  37. 
William*,  sons  of  Colonel  Richard  Booker,  who  died  in  1760,  nothing 
can  be  certainly  stated  from  the  information  at  hand.  Much  of  the  land 
left  them  was  in  other  counties. 

38.  Edward*  Booker  {Edward^,  Edward^,  Richard'),  seems  to 
have  been  the  Captain  Edward  Booker  who  was  in  service  commanding 
a  company  of  Amelia  militia  in  1776  (there  are  several  payments  to  him 
in  the  State  records ) :  was  commissioned  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the 
militia  of  the  county  in  1780  (Am^iia  Records),  and  was  County  Lieu- 
tenant in  1788,  &c.  No  further  information  in  regard  to  him  can  be  de- 
rived from  the  data  at  hand. 

50.  John*  Booker  (John*,  Richard"^,  Richard^),  of  Amelia,  was 
bom  June  23d,  1 751,  and  died  June  18,  1803.  He  was  a  justice  of  Amelia 
and  member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  in  1784.  He  married,  January 
19.  1775,  Elizabeth  Giles  {Famiiy  Bible),  daughter  of  Wm.  Giles,  of 
Amelia,  and  sister  of  Governor  Wm.  B.  Giles. 

Issue:  60.  Richard*,  bom  November  8,  1775,  d.  s.  p.\  61.  Anne*, 
bom  October  ir,  1777,  married  May  ist,  1800,  John  Garland  Jefferson ; 
62.  John*,  born  January  10,  1779,  member  of  House  of  Delegates  1817 
and  1822,  and  died  May,  1833,  s. p.-,  63.  Judith,  bom  August  5,  1780, 
married  Edward  Eggleston,  of  **  Locust  Grove,"  Amelia  county,  and 
died  June  30,  1816;  64.  Elizabeth*,  born  August  11,  1782,  married  Jan- 
uary 5,  1809,  John  Chaffin,  of  Amelia  county,  and  died  May  2,  1815 ; 
65.  Martha*,  bom  August  17,  1784,  died  May  22,  1856;  66.  William*, 
bom  June  23,  1786,  d.  s.  p.-,  67.  Daniel  \  born  September  25, 1788,  d.  s.p.\ 
68.  Richard^',  69.  Arthur  I.*,  born  February  26,  1794,  d.  s.p,\  70.  Fred- 
erick*, born  Febmary  20,  1796,  d.  s.  p, 

68.  Richard*  Booker  {John\  John*,  Richard*,  Richard^),  of 
Amelia,  was  born  January  22,  1791.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Delegates  from  1823  to  1836,  inclusive.  The  following  is  an  extract 
from  his  published  obituary  :  **  When  a  young  man,  he  joined  that  body 
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our  northwest  frontier  under  our  late  President,  General  Harrison.  He 
was  thus  placed  in  all  the  trying  positions  of  a  soldier,  enduring  fatigue, 
cold  and  hunger,  assisting  in  the  defence  of  Fort  Meigs  against  the  com- 
bined attack  of  the  English  and  Indians,  and  once,  after  making  a 
perilous  sortie,  cutting  his  way  with  others  back  to  the  fort,  through 
numerous  foes.  Yet  in  all  these  trying  scenes,  and  in  that  crucible  of 
character,  the  camp,  there  are  living  witnesses  that  he  was  uniformly 
the  good  soldier,  the  generous  friend,  and  the  gentleman.  ♦  ♦  ♦  Alter 
his  return  from  the  northwest,  *  *  *  his  services  were  again  offered 
in  defence  of  his  country,  and  though  very  capable  of  bearing  a  high 
command,  he  is  found  a  private  soldier  in  the  army  of  the  Capital. 
*  ♦  *  Mr.  Booker  served  his  country  in  the  legislature  for  thirteen 
years.  *  ♦  *  Mr.  Booker  was  much  loved  by  his  neighborhood  ;  he 
was  a  generous  friend,  kind  and  charitable  to  the  poor,  beloved  by  his 
servants,  end  has  left  memorials  behind  him  far  more  enduring  than 
those  engraved  in  tablets  of  stone.  ♦  *  ♦  The  troop  of  Amelia 
interred  him  with  military  honors.** 

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RODES  FAMILY. 

ADDITIONS  AND  CORRECTIONS. 

Virginia  Magazine,  July,  1899,  page  86-87: 

20.  Clifton"  Rodes  (John,»  John*),  married,  not  Elizabeth /<?«^j,  but 
Jouett,  of  Albemarle  county,  Virginia.     Of  their  two  children,  Mary,* 

married,  first, Smith,  and  had  one  son.  Jack  Smith,  who  married 

Ophelia  Childs,  and  their  daughter  Mary,  is  now  Mrs.  Dabney  Carr,  of 
Lexington,  Ky. 

This  Mary*  (Rodes)  Smith,  married,  second,  Hezekiah  P.  Murrell, 
and  left  two  daughters:  (a)  Jane  Elizabeth,  who  married  Tyree  •  Rodes, 
of  Giles  county,  Tenn.,  and  {b)  Ophelia,  who  married  Dr.  T.  A.  Atchi- 
son, Nashville,  Tenn.  Elizabeth  *  Rodes  (Clifton  *)  married  first,  Gavin 
and  then  Watkins. 

Clifton*  Rodes  (Jane  E.  Murrell,  Mary*  (Rodes)  Smith-Murrell,  Clif- 
ton* Rodes),  died  June  13,  1887,  not  1897.  It  will  be  seen  that  both 
through  his  father  and  his  mother  he  was  of  Rodes  descent,  being  also 
son  of  Tyree*  Rodes  (Tyree,»  John,' John  M. 

21.  Tyree*  Rodes  was  probably  bom  December  24,  1771,  instead  of 
1770.     It  is  stated  both  ways. 

On  April  25,  181  r,  he  married  Cynthia  Holland,  daughter  of  Major 
James  Holland,  not  of  Halifax  county,  N.  C,  but  of  **  Gilbert-Town," 
Rutherford  county,  N.  C,  and  afterwards  of  Maury  county,  Tennessee. 
(See  Draper's  "King's  Mountain,"  and  Wheeler's  N.  C.  *•  Sketches,** 
and  Garrett's  Tennessee  Historical  Magazine  O898),  Vol.  3,  page  259- 
266,  for  him). 


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William  Rivers,  the  son  of  John  H.  and  Sarah  Myra*  (Rodes)  Rivers, 
died  December  26,  1891,  not  in  1882. 

His  wife,  Julia  (Flournoy)  Rivers,  died  January  22,  1882,  and  their  son 
Tyree  Rodes  Rivers,  is  not  lieutenant  U.  S.  A.,  but  captain  **  F"  troop, 
Fourth  cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 

Cynthia  (Rivers)  Carter,  daug^hter  of  John  H.  and  Sarah  Myra  *  (Rodes) 
Rivers  married  C.  F.  Carter,  April  6,  1852,  not  1851. 


THE  PRYOR  FAMILY. 
(continued.) 

The  account  of  the  descendants  of  David  Pryor  is  derived  chiefly  from 
the  entries  in  an  old  Bible.  Information  connecting  him  with  the  other 
branches  of  the  family  is  desired. 

I>avid  Pryor,  of  Buckingham  county,  Va.,  married  a  Miss  Susan  Bal- 
low.  He  died  the  fourth  Monday  in  September,  1804,  in  Buckingham, 
where  he  had  lived  many  years.     He  had  children,  viz: 

1.  Dr.  William  S.  Pryor,  who  lived  in  Hanover  county,  Virginia,  and 
died  1840. 

2.  Judge  John  C.  Pryor,  who  lived  in  Herman,  De  Soto  county.  Miss., 
and  afterwards  in  Tampa,  Fla.;  married  a  Miss  Bullock;  had  Ave  sons 
and  one  daughter,  whose  name  was  Medora,  and  was  educated  at  Bards- 
town,  Ky.,  in  a  Catholic  school,  and  married  a  man  named  Taylor. 
Names  of  sons:  Frank.  John,  Daniel;  one  of  the  sons  was  drowned  in 
the  Mississippi  river  with  a  large  sum  of  money  around  his  body,  was 
just  from  California,  and  one  son  died  at  Tampa  Bay,  Florida. 

3.  Zane  Pryor  died  1854,  married  a  Miss  Patteson,  of  Buckingham 
county,  Virginia,  and  lived  at  a  place  called  Zanesville,  near  Mt.  Vinco 
Post-office,  now  in  Buckingham,  and  had  two  children.  Captain  William 
Pryor,  who  now  lives  at  White  Hall,  Dillwin  Post-office,  Buckingham 
county,  and  keeps  the  White  House  Hotel,  married  a  Miss  Cobbs,  and 
they  have  no  children.  Mrs.  Edmondson  Nicholas  Davis,  his  sister, 
lives  in  Lynchburg,  603  Cabell  street,  and  has  five  children.  El  wood  T. 
Davis  is  a  conductor  on  the  Norfolk  and  Western  Railroad,  David  Con- 
way Davis,  John  Bernard  Davis,  Jonnie  Davis  and  Aurelia  Davis. 

Mr.  Davis  has  the  family  Bible  and  record  of  marriages  and  deaths, 
births  and  dates. 

4.  Langston  Pryor,  who  died  in  1854. 

5.  Leonard  Pryor,  who  died  in  1830. 

6.  Nicholas  Ballow  Pryor,  bom  in  Buckingham,  1789 ;  married  Sallie 
Thomas,  of  Amherst  county,  Va. ;  moved  to  Tennessee,  and  died  in 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  in  1833.  Two  of  his  daughters  married  Dr.  James  A. 
Dibrell,  of  Van  Buren,  Arkansas  ;  the  first  (Ann  Eliza)  was  the  mother 
of  Medora  Dibrell,  who  married  Dr.  Du  Val,  and  of  Dr.  James  A. 
Dibrell,  now  of  Little  Rock,  Ark. 


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7.  Baynton. 

8.  Zachariah  B.,  died  1837,  aged  55  years. 

9.  Mitchie  B.,  married  Randolph  Jefferson,  brother  of  the  President. 
Randolph  Jefferson  died  7th  August,  1815.  This  couple  left  a  son,  John 
Jeflerson,  who  was  raised  by  Nicholas  B.  Pryor  and  his  wife. 

Susan  Ballow,  wife  of  David  Pryor,  died  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  1831, 
aged  94. 

The  following  information  was  kindly  furnished  by  Hon.  Luke  Pryor, 
of  Athens,  Ala.,  in  response  to  a  request  made  to  him  : 

My  father  Luke  Pryor,  son  of  John  Pr>'or,  was  bom  April  3,  1770,  in 
Hanover  county,  near  Richmond,  Va.  His  oldest  brother  Richard  was 
a  tobacco  merchant  in  Richm»»nd,  who  under  the  primogeniture  laws  of 
England,  had  care  of  the  children  and  estate  of  his  father  John.  My 
father  (Luke)  married  twice,  his  first  wife  was  Miss  Martha  Scott,  sister 
of  General  Winfield  Scott,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  George,  born 
October  24,  1802;  died  October  24.  1803.  They  were  married  October 
8,  1 80 1.     Martha  Scott  Pryor  died  November  5,  1802. 

On  August  22,  i8c8,  my  father  the  second  time  married  my  mother, 
Miss  Ann  Batte  Lane,  daughter  of  Sylvia  and  Benjamin  Lane.  Mrs.  Lane 
was  Sylvia  Perry.  My  mother  Ann  Batte  Lane,  was  born  June  21,  1790; 
died  March  2,  1864.  I  believe  her  native  county  was  Brunswick.  They 
had  ten  children:  Martha,  who  married  Wm.  D.  Allison;  John  Benjamin; 
Ann  Batte,  who  married  Frederick  R.  Shelton;  Elizabeth,  who  married 
Fleming  Douglas;  Mary  Dennis,  who  married  Henry  W.  Cambell; 
Harriet  Boiling,  who  married  Dr.  Thos.  S.  Malone;  I  myself  marired 
Miss  Isabella  Virginia  Harrris,  daughter  of  Captain  John  H.  Harris  and 
Francis  Rowsie  Harris,  all  of  Virginia;  a  younger  brother  Richard,  a 
sister  Virginia,  both  died  when  children,  the  latter  being  nine  years  old; 
Emily,  the  youngest,  married  Dr.  Andrew  Jackson  McWilhaney. 

The  children  of  myself  and  wife  are  as  follows: 

Aurora,  wlio  married  Robert  A.  Md'lellan;  my  only  son  William 
Richard,  married  Ida  M.  Harris;  Memory,  married  Wm.  Shirley  Peebles; 
Anne  Batte,  married  Maclin  Sloss;  Francis  now  unmarried;  Mary  D. 
married  Thos.  Bass  Leslie;  Harriet,  married  Robert  C.  Lowe;  Isabella 
Benjamin,  died  at  an  early  age.  All  of  my  family,  and  most  of  those 
whom  they  have  intermarried  are  of  Virginia  blood,  paternally  and 
maternally,  their  ancestors  were  of  English,  Scotch  and  Irish  blood. 

[Additions  and  corrections  are  requested. — Ed.] 


THE  COLES  FAMILY. 

(CONTINUED    FROM   JULY    NUMBER.) 

Edward  Coles  married  Sally  Logan  Roberts  of  Philadelphia. 
Isaac  Coles  married  Julia  Strieker,  daughter  of  General  Strieker,  of 
Baltimore. 


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Walter  Coles,  son  of  Walter  and  Eliza  Cocke  Coles,  of  Woodville, 
Albemarle  county,  Va.,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Carter 
and  Sarah  Pleasants  Logan,  his  wife,  of  Goochland  county,  Va.,  and 
had  issue  as  iollows :  Dr.  Walter  Coles,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  who  was 
twice  married— first,  Anne  Taylor  Preston,  daughter  of  Hon.  Wm.  Bal- 
lard Preston,  Montgomery  county,  Va. ;  second,  Elizabeth  Childs  Pen- 
dleton, daughter  of  Colonel  Edmund  Pendleton,  of  Lexington,  Va.  The 
children  of  the  first  marriage :  Walter  De  R.  Coles,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
Lucy  Preston  Coles  ;  children  of  second  marriage  :  Edmund  Pendleton 
Coles  and  Elizabeth  Carter  Coles. 

Sally  Logan  Coles  and  Elizabeth  Cocke  Coles,  daughters  of  Walter 
Coles  and  Anne  Carter,  reside  at  Woodville,  Albemarle  county,  Va. 

John  Coles,  of  St.  Louis,  son  of  Walter  Coles  and  Anne  Carter,  his 
wife,  married  Lena  Connett,  daughter  of  Wm.  Connett,  of  St.  |oseph, 
Mo. 

Thomas  Boiling  Coles,  youngest  son  of  Walter  Coles  and  Anne  Car- 
ter, of  Woodville,  Albemarle  county,  Va.,  married  Charlotte,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Ed.  F.  Berkley,  of  St.  Louis. 

The  following  account  of  Governor  Edward  Coles  is  derived  from  an 
address  by  Judge  W.  W.  Howe  before  the  Louisiana  Historical  Asso- 
ciation, on  the  occasion  of  the  presentation  of  Governor  Coles*  portrait 
to  the  Association  by  Miss  Coles,  of  Philadelphia : 

**  He  was  bom  in  1786  on  his  father's  estate  of  '  Enniscorthy,*  in  Albe- 
marle county,  Va.,  some  ten  miles  south  ot  Monticello.  It  was  at  this 
house  that  Governor  Thomas  Jefferson  took  refuge  in  1781,  when  he  so 
narrowly  escaped  capture  by  the  troopers  of  Tarleton.  About  eight 
miles  below,  at  Scottsville,  on  the  James  river,  is  the  place  where  Lafay- 
ette, improvising  a  road  through  the  forest,  headed  off  Comwallis  and 
drove  him  back  to  Yorktown.  A  mounment  is  now  being  erected  at 
Scottsville  to  commemorate  the  incident. 

**  In  1809  Edward  Coles,  planter  and  owner  of  slaves  bequeathed  to 
him,  became  the  private  secretary  of  President  Madison,  and  held  the 
position  for  six  years.  In  1816  he  was  sent  by  the  President  on  a  special 
mission  to  St.  Petersburg,  the  duties  of  which  he  discharged  with  skill 
and  success.  It  was  after  his  return  from  this  mission  that  he  proceeded 
to  carry  out  a  plan  which  he  had  been  considering  for  many  years. 

**  As  early  as  1814  he  had  been  corresponding  with  Mr.  Jefferson  upK)n 
the  subject  of  slavery  in  Virginia  and  the  possibility  of  gradual  emanci- 
pation. Mr.  Jefferson,  in  his  reply  of  August  25,  1814,  of  which  a  fac- 
simile is  given  in  Mr.  Washburne's  sketch,  had  expressed  his  profound 
sympathy  with  the  purpose  in  view,  while  admitting  the  practical  diffi- 
culties that  stood  in  the  way.  In  1818  Mr.  Coles  visited  the  Territory  ot 
Illinois,  and  in  18 19,  seeing  no  immediate  prospect  of  emancipation  in 
Virginia,  he  resolved  to  remove  his  slaves  to  Illinois,  to  set  them  free, 
and  to  give  them  lands  for  their  support.     On  the  first  of  April,  1819,  he 


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set  out  upon  the  journey,  going  across  the  mountains  to  the  neighbor-, 
hood  of  Pittsburg,  and  proceeding  with  his  party  down  the  Ohio  on 
flatboats.  On  the  morning  after  he  left  Pittsburg  he  caused  the  boats  to 
be  lashed  together,  called  the  negroes  on  deck  and  made  them  an  address 
which  concluded  by  proclaiming  their  freedom.  In  Mr.  Coles  account 
of  the  scene  he  declared  that  they  were  thrilled  with  delight  and  grati- 
tude, and  at  once  proposed  to  work  for  him  without  wages  until  they 
could  thus  compensate  him  for  the  expense  of  the  journey  to  the  West. 
This  offer,  however,  he  declined,  and  at  his  own  expense  settled  each 
head  of  a  family  in  Illinois  on  160  acres  of  land.  Some,  at  least,  of  these 
emancipated  people  proved  to  be  industrious  and  prospered  in  their  new 
home. 

**  Mr.  Coles  was  appointed  by  President  Monroe  as  Register  of  the 
United  States  Land  Office  at  Edwardsville,  Illinois.  His  experience  in 
public  affairs,  his  amiable  manners  and  his  remarkable  intelligence  com- 
bined to  make  him  a  commanding  figure  in  frontier  life,  and  in  1822  he 
was  elected  Governor  of  Illinois.  The  contest  was  close.  There  were 
four  candidates,  and  Coles  was  elected  by  a  plurality  of  only  fifty  votes. 

**A  few  days  after  his  inauguration,  he  wrote  the  following  letter, 
which  is  interesting  and  important  in  these  days,  when  the  newspapers 
are  full  of  the  names  of  *  colonels '  who  never  saw  a  battalion,  of  'judges ' 
who  never  sat  on  a  bench,  and  *  honorables '  who  have  no  right  to  the 
prefix : 

"  *  Vandalia,  December  10,  1822. 

*' '  Gentlemen^ — Our  State  Constitution  gives  to  the  person  exercising 
the  functions  of  the  Executive  the  appellation  of  Governor,  a  title  which 
is  specific,  intelligible  and  republican,  and  amply  sufficient  to  denote  the 
dignity  of  the  office.  In  your  last  paper,  you  have  notice  me  by  the 
addition  of  *his  Excellency,'  an  aristocratic  and  high-sounding  adjunct, 
which,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  has  become  too  common  among  us,  not  only 
in  newspaper  annunciations,  but  in  the  addressing  of  letters,  and  even 
in  familiar  discourse.  It  is  a  practice  disagreeable  to  my  feelings  and 
inconsistent,  as  I  think,  with  the  dignified  simplicity  of  freemen  and  to 
the  nature  of  the  vocation  of  those  to  whom  it  is  applied.  And  having 
made  it  a  rule  through  life  to  address  no  one  as  his  Excellency  or  the 
honorable,  or  by  any  such  unmeaning  title,  I  trust  I  shall  be  pardoned 
for  asking  it  as  a  favor  of  you  and  my  fellow-citizens  .generally  not  to 
apply  them  to  me.  I  am,  etc., 

*'  *  Edward  Coles. 

**  *  Messrs.  Brown  &  Berry,  Editors  of  the  Illinois  Intelligencer.* 

*'  When  we  remember  how  long  Mr.  Coles  had  been  in  public  life,  at 
Washington  and  in  Europe,  the  statements  of  this  letter  are  worthy  ol 
notice. 

'*  But  a  more  important  question  was  already  looming  like  a  cloud  in 
the  political  horizon  of  Illinois. 


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**The  State  was  a  part  of  the  former  Northwest  Territory,  from  which 
slavery  had  been  excluded  by  the  ordinance  of  1787  ;  but  it  seemed  as 
if  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  State  were  in  favor  of  introducing  the 
institution  by  an  amendment  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State.  Their 
purpose  was  not  openly  declared,  but  it  was  strongly  suspected,  if  not 
positively  known.  They  had  elected  a  Lieutenant-Governor  of  pro- 
slavery  views,  and  a  large  majority  of  the  new  Legislature  were  ready  for 
the  plan. 

**  The  inaugural  speech  of  Governor  Coles  sounded  a  note  of  warning. 
He  declared  that  some  negroes  were  still  held  in  practical  bondage  in 
Illinois,  notwithstanding  the  ordinance  of  1787  and  the  prohibitions  of 
the  first  Constitution  of  Illinois,  and  that  a  system  of  kidnapping  of 
free  blacks  was  being  tolerated,  and  he  called  for  legislation  to  prevent 
such  unlawful  acts.  The  struggle  was  at  once  precipitated.  The  pro- 
slavery  party,  led  by  acute  lawyers,  declared  that  Illinois  was  slave  ter- 
ritory before  it  was  ceded  by  Virginia  to  the  United  States ;  that  the 
deed  of  cession  of  1 784  confirmed  the  inhabitants,  who  claimed  to  be 
citizens  of  Virginia,  in  all  their  possessions  and  titles  ;  that  the  ordinance 
of  1787,  so  far  as  it  was  in  conflict  with  this  provision,  was  null  and  void ; 
and  that  Illinois,  having  been  admitted  to  the  Union  on  equal  terms 
with  all  the  other  States,  had  now  the  right  to  alter  its  Constitution  and 
make  any  disposition  of  negro  slaves  it  might  choose.  Upon  these 
theories,  a  committee  recommended  a  measure  calling  a  convention  to 
alter  the  Constitution. 

**  In  order  to  pass  an  act  to  submit  to  the  people  the  question  of  call- 
ing such  a  convention,  it  appeared  that  a  two-thirds  vote  was  required 
in  each  House.  Such  a  majority  was  ready  in  the  Senate,  but  lacked 
one  vote  in  the  House.  The  effort  to  procure  this  needed  vote  led  to 
some  remarkable  proceedings.  Nicholas  Hansen,  of  Pike  county,  had 
received  a  certificate,  but  his  election  was  contested  by  John  Shaw. 
After  the  usual  formal  proceedings,  the  contest  was  decided  in  favor  of 
Hansen,  and  he  was  definitely  quieted  in  possession  of  his  seat.  The 
matter  thus  passed  into  judgment,  and  was  supposed  to  be  settled.  It 
was  a  thing  adjudged  on  every  principle  of  law  and  justice  ;  but  Alex- 
ander P.  Field,  of  Union  county,  then  a  young  criminal  lawyer  of  un- 
usual boldness  and  skill,  two  months  after,  in  February,  1823,  brought 
in  a  motion  to  reconsider.  The  motion  was  carried,  and  on  an  ex  parte 
affidavit  by  a  friend  of  Shaw  that,  '  in  the  opinion  *  of  the  affiant,  Shaw 
was  elected  by  a  majority  of  29  votes,  Shaw  was  given  the  seat.  It  took 
special  messengers  four  days  to  reach  him  and  bring  him  back,  but  he 
was  brought  in  at  last,  voted  for  a  convention,  and  the  act  was  adopted. 

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YATES  FAMILY. 

(continued   from  JULY.) 

Rev.  Bartholomew*  Yates,  bom  February  9  baptized  February  17, 
1712,  died  1767.  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  Middlesex  county,  Va.,  1736- 
1767.     Bursar  of  William  and  Mary  College,  1766. 

Alumni  Oxonienses  has  this  record:  Bartholomew  Yeates,  s.  of  Bar- 
tholom*w.  Christ  Church— Cler.  Oriel  College— matric.  February  29, 
1731-2,  aged  18.  B.  A.,  1735.  Brother  of  Robert  Yates,  1733.  Mar- 
ried   ,  i74r,  Elizabeth  Stanard,  of  Middlesex  county,  Va.,  who  was 

daughter  of  William  Stanard  and  Elizabeth  Beverley,  his  wife.  Her 
will  was  proved  July  7,  1747.  She  was  daughter  of  Harry  Beverley,  son 
of  Robert  Beverley.— ^w.  &  Mary  Quart.,  Oct.  '95,  p.  120;  Va.  Hist 
Mag.,  Jan.  '96,  p.  169-271. 

His  children  were:  Sarah,'  born  October  29,  baptized  November  11, 
1742;  married  Joseph  Chinn,  March  16,  1763.  John — IV.  <5f  M.,  Jan- 
uary, '99,  p.  192. 

Issue:  Priscilla,*  b.  February  7,  1767,  d.  February  i,  181 2,  m.  May  29, 
1783,  Rawleigh  Wm.  Downman. 

Issue:  I.  Margaret,*  b.  September  19,  1784,  d.  September  30,  1784; 
2.  Joseph,*  b.  November  10,  1785,  d.  November  21,  1785;  3.  Fidelia,*  b. 
December  20,  1786,  m.  Cyrus  Ball,  lieutenant  92  Va.  Mil.,  war  of  i8r2 
(Issue:  Rawleigh  W.,  died  young);  4.  Amelia,*  b.  October  18,  1788; 
Sarah,*  b.  February  17,  1790,  d.  February  19,  1826,  m.  Tabbs  (Is- 
sue: Stanley,* died  in  infancy);  5.  Rawleigh*  Wm.,  b.  April  25,  1791;  6. 
John  Bartholomew,*  b.  May  9,  1793,  d.  November  3,  1759;  m.  Harriett 
Jane  Downman,  b.  Auk:ust  6.  1797.  d.  February  4,  1869  (dau.  of  Joseph 
Ball  Downman  and  Olivia  Payne),  January  11,  1816;  Priscilla,*  b.  April 
12,  1794,  d.  1835;  m.,  first,  Joseph  Ball  Downman,  b.  Oct.  27,  1787,  sec 
ond,  John  B.  Branham;  8.  Thomas*  Ravenscroft,  b.  January  11,  1796, 
d.  November  16,  1830;  9.  Henry  Chinn,*  b.  March  27,  1797;  ro.  Robert, 
b.  April  19,  1800;  II.  Frances,*  b.  December  13,  1801;  m.,  first 


i.s^3,  William  Gilmour,  who  died  1830  (and  had  i-sue:  John  Morton, 
died  without  issue,  m.,  second,  Dr.  William  Jones,  of  Gloucester  county, 
issue:  Christopher,*  died  young,  William,*  died  young;  Priscilla,*  died 
young);  12.  Elizabeth,*  b.  December  3,  1803,  d.  September  16,  1806;  13, 
A  daughter,*  b.  F'ebruary  17,  1807,  d.  February  25,  1807;  14.  Joseph 
Henry,*  b.  June  23,  1805,  d.  June  24,  1831,  m.  Sophia  Elizabeth,  dau 
of  John  Yates  and  Sarah  (Carter)  Chinn. 

Issue:  William  Yates,*  b.  January,  1830,  d.  December  10,  1863;  mar- 
ried Mary  Ann  Hayes,  dau.  of  D.  John  and  Ann  S.  Hayes. 

Issue:  Anne  Hayes,'  b.  October  3,  1856,  d.  February  12,  1879;  m 
R.  Innes  Taylor,  issue:  Mary  Stuart,*  b.  October.  1879;  2.  Sophia  Chinn, 
b.  ;  m.  Marion  Dimmock,   1895;  3.   Rev.  John  Yates,  b.  


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4.  Kawleigh  William,^  b.  1859,  d.  August  26,  1881;  5.  James  Hayes/  b. 

15.  William.*  b.  October  19,  1808;  m.  Bartholomew  Carter  Chinn— 
Issue:  Julia,*  died  young. 

Bartholomew  •  Yates,  second  child  of  Bartholomew,*  b.  October  22, 
1744,  student  at  William  and  Mary  College,  1762;  m.  Ann  Daniel,  May 
J  I,  1769. 

Issue:  Bartholomew,*  b.  January  17,  baptized  March  25, 1770. 

Ann  Daniel,  dau.  of  Robert  Daniel,  d.  June  24,  1771,  and  left  her  1,100 
acres  of  land  in  Orange  county. — Hoyden,  p.  329-339. 

Catharine,*  born  ,  m.  John  Montague,  December  14,  1776.    J. 

M.,  son  of  Captain  William  Montague,  b.  about  1756. 

Issue:  Elizabeth  Stanard,*  b.  177^^;  m.  July  11.  1799,  Samuel  Monta- 
gue, b.  1776.  [Mont.  Fam.^  3»79.)  Issue:  Lucy  Elizabeth,*  m.  Garrett 
and  had  one  son,  7.  Robert,  who  m.  Anne  Gardner  and  died  without 

issue;   Catherine,*  b.  ;  m.  Captain  George  Hoskins — Issue  (see 

Montague  Family,  416);  Amelia  Stanard,*  m.  first,  Richard  Allen;  sec- 
ond. Col.  Erastus  T.  Montague. 

[Query  as  to  Catherine  Yates,  b.  1802,  daughter  of  Frances,  daughter 
of  Latane  Montague,  m.  Nathan  Graves.     Mont.  Fam.,  119.] 

Harry  Beverley,*  born ;  m.  Lucy  Murray,  May  23,  1779. 

Issue:  Rachel  Murray*  Beverley,  bom  February  24,  1780;  married 
Thomas  Cooke,  January  15,  1799.  Issue:  Lucy,*  b. ;  m.  Dr.  Sam- 
uel G.  Fauutleroy,  of  Middlesex  county.     Issue:  Dr.  Samuel*  G.  Faun- 

tleroy,  b. ;  m.  Frances  Elizabeth  Claybrook.     Issue:  i.  Maxwell,^ 

b. ;  m.  Betty  G.  Brockenbrough  (Issue:  Four*  children);  2.  Lelia,^ 

m.  Judge  John  G.  Dew  (Issue:  Four*  children);  3.  Dr.  Charles'  F'auntle- 
roy;  4.  Lucy  Yates' Fauntleroy;  5.  M.  K.'( daughter )  F'auntleroy;  6.  B. 
T.'  (daughter)  Fauntleroy. 

Elizabeth  Stanard,*  born  August  7,  1781;  m.  John  Quarles,  October 
12,  1797. 

Harry  Beverley,*  m.,  second  wife,  Jane  Montague,  February  27,  1783. 
(Montague  Book,  124.)  Issue:  Sarah,*  bom  January  13,  1788;  died  in 
infancy;  Catherine*  Klug,  b.  March  i,  1784:  m.  James  Baytop,  December 
31.  1807. 

Ann  Yates,*  b.  ;  m.  Robert  Spratt,  September  19,  1772. 

Mary,*  b. ;  d.  January  15,  1794,  her  will  recorded  in  Middlesex, 

July  22,  1797  or  1799.     {Montague  Book,  124.) 

YATES— RANDOLPH. 

The  two  younger  sons  of  the  first  Rev.  Bartholomew  Yates  married 
sisters— daughters  of  Edward  Randolph,  the  seventh  and  youngest  son 
of  William  Randolph,  of  Turkey  Island,  and  Mary  Isham.  his  wife. 
Their  line  of  descent,  therefore,  is  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  Randolph 
family.     These  brothers  were,  like  their  father  and  elder  brother,  them- 


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.  selves  of  the  Colonial  Church,  and  to  obtain  their  clerical  orders  had  to 
visit  England.  On  these  visits  they  were  married,  their  wives  being 
natives  and  residents  of  England.  Their  father  is  somewhere  called 
Edward  Randolph  of  Bremo,  but  it  is  very  certain  that  he  never  had  a 
family  seat  in  Virginia.  His  father's  will,  dated  March  6,  1709,  probated 
in  Henrico  county  court,  at  Varina,  June  i,  17 13,  devised  him  a  tract  ot 
625  acres  on  Chickahominy  Swamp.  While  the  location  of  this  tract  is 
not  known,  it  was  very  certainly  not  '*  Bremo,"  for  that  name  belonged 
to  a  farm  on  the  James  river  near  Turkey  Island  and  Malvern  Hill, 
which  was,  during  the  18th  century,  the  property  of  the  Cocke  family. — 
S  Va.  Hist,  Mag.,  405,  &c. 

Edward  Randolph  was  bom  about  1700,  and  was  a  boy  in  his  teens 
when  his  father  died.  He  chose  a  seafaring  life,  and  traded  in  his  own 
vessels  between  Virginia  and  the  mother  country,  and  is  spoken  of  in 
the  Dinwiddie  Papers  as  late  as  1756  as  being  then  in  Virginia  preparing 
for  a  return  voyage  to  England.  When  and  where  he  died  is  not  known, 
but  it  is  believed  he  never  had  a  home  in  Virginia.  The  MSS.  notes  of 
John  Randolph  of  Roanoke,  in  possession  of  Rev.  C.  B.  Bryan,  of 
Hampton,  has  this  record  : 

7.  Edward  (who  lived  in  England),  captain  of  a  ship,  captivated  at  a 
launch  at  Gravesend  Miss  Groves,  an  heiress  of  ;f  10,000,  whom  he  mar* 
ried,  and  had — 

1.  Joseph,  died  unmarried. 

2.  Edward,  married  Miss  Lucy  Harrison,  of  Berkeley,  sister  to  Gov- 
ernor Harrison  and  Mrs.  Speaker  Randolph,  by  whom  he  had  Harrison 
(married,  first.  Miss  Starke,  by  whom  he  had  Edward  and  Lucy,  and 
secondly,  Miss  Jones,  of  Brunswick).  Lucy  married  Mons.  Latil,  of 
France. 

3.  Eliz.,  married  the  Rev.  Wm.  Yates,  of  Gloucester. 

4.  Mary,  married  Rev.  Robei:t  Yates— two  daughters  married  in 
England. 

Bishop  Meade,  following  this  record,  gives  Mrs.  Randolph's  maiden 
name  as  Groves,  and  it  has  been  so  accepted.  But  her  name  was  Gros- 
venor.  The  older  members  of  the  writer's  family,  who  were  contempo- 
rary with  his  grandmother,  who  was  a  granddaughter  of  Mrs.  Randolph, 
always  gave  this  name,  associating  it  with  the  Grosvenor  family  and 
Grosvenor  Square  ;  and  an  old  aunt,  a  childless  widow  and  the  reposi- 
tory of  all  family  traditions  and  heirlooms,  and  an  almost  daily  com- 
panion of  her  mother  for  fifty  years,  urged  the  giving  of  this  name  to 
the  writer's  youngest  brother  to  preserve  it  in  the  family  history.  She 
always  spoke  of  Mrs.  Randolph  as  an  heiress,  and  either  a  Quakeress 
or  of  Quaker  sympathies,  and  so  much  opposed  to  negro  slavery  that 
she  was  never  willing  to  come  to  Virginia. 


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BOOK  REVIEWS. 


The  Growth  of  the  Constitution  in  the  Federal  Convention 
OF  1787.  By  William  M.  Meigs.  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  1900. 

This  is  a  very  aseful  book  to  any  student  of  constitutional  history.  It 
traces  the  development  of  each  clause  in  the  Constitution  of  1787.  The 
same  facts  may  be  gotten  from  Elliot's  Debates,  but  with  much  greater 
trouble.  In  most  respects  it  is  a  fair  statement  of  the  history  of  each 
clause.  But  it  is  not  always.  An  instance  of  this  kind  occurs  in  the 
famous  provision  limiting  the  time  within  which  slaves  might  be  im- 
ported, to  1808.  The  clause  of  the  Constitution  containing  ihis  provis- 
ion was  first  limited  to  1800.  Virginia's  voice  was  against  the  further 
importation  of  slaves  altogether,  but  when  the  clauses  under  considera- 
tion went  to  the  Committee  on  Style,  their  report  was  as  follows: 

**The  migration  or  importation  of  such  persons  as  the  several  states, 
now  existing,  shall  think  proper  to  admit,  shall  not  be  prohibited  by  ihe 
Congress  prior  to  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eight;  but  a 
tax  or  duty  may  be  imposed  on  such  importation,  not  exceeding  ten 
dollars  for  each  person."  (Pp.  166,  167.) 

Madison  spoke  earnestly  against  the  prolongation,  but  the  motion  to 
extend  the  time  to  1808  prevailed  by  the  votes  of  the  three  New  Eng- 
land States,  Maryland,  and  the  three  southernmost  States,  against  New 
Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Delaware  and  Virginia.  So  that  New  England 
is  in  fact  on  record,  whether  Mr.  Meigs  thinks  proper  to  so  state  or  not 
as  voting  against  Virginia /<7r  the  importation  of  slaves.  This  vote  was 
doubtless  in  favor  of  her  shipping  interests  rather  than  in  accordance 
with  her  accustomed  high  moral  ideas.  While  debating  this  question, 
one  of  Virginia's  statesmen  said: 

"This  infernal  traffic  originated  in  the  avarice  of  British  merchants; 
th*e  British  government  constantly  checked  the  attempts  of  Virginia  to 
put  a  stop  to  it.  The  present  question  concerns  not  the  importing  states 
alone,  but  the  whole  union.  Maryland  and  Virginia  have  already  pro- 
hibited the  importation  of  slaves  expressly;  North  Carolina  has  done  the 
same  in  substance.  All  this  would  be  in  vain  if  South  Carolina  and 
Georgia  be  at  liberty  to  import  them.  The  western  people  are  already 
calling  out  for  slaves  for  their  new  lands,  and  will  fill  that  country  with 
slaves  if  they  can  be  got  through  South  Carolina  and  Georgia.  Slavery 
discourages  arts  and  manufactures.  The  poor  despise  labor  when  per- 
formed by  slaves.  They  prevent  the  emigration  of  whites,  who  really 
enrich  and  strengthen  a  country.    They  produce  the  most  pernicious 


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effect  on  manners.  Every  master  of  slaves  is  born  a  petty  tyrant.  They 
bring  the  judgment  of  Heaven  on  a  country.  As  nations  cannot  be 
rewarded  or  punished  in  the  next  world,  they  must  be  in  this.  By  an 
inevitable  chain  of  causes  and  effects,  Providence  punishes  national  sins 
by  national  calamities.  I  lament  that  some  of  our  eastern  brethren  have, 
from  a  lust  of  gain,  embarked  in  this  nefarious  traffic.  As  to  the  states 
being  in  possession  of  the  right  to  import,  this  is  the  case  with  many 
other  rights,  now  to  be  properly  given  up.  I  hold  it  essential  in  every 
point  of  view,  that  the  general  government  should  have  power  to  pre- 
vent the  increase  of  slavery.'* 

If  George  Mason  had  no  other  title  to  fame,  this  one  speech  would 
have  placed  his  name  forever  in  the  Pantheon  of  history.  See  Vol.  2, 
Bancroft's  History  of  the  Const,,  pp.  153,  154,  158.  But  the  work  as  a 
whole  is  exceedingly  valuable.  That  its  writer  should  be  imbued  with 
ideas  which  induce  him  to  misrepresent  by  omission,  is  not  creditable 
to  either  his  head  or  his  heart.  Virginia,  the  pivotal  State  in  the  Union 
at  that  time,  was  not  only  in  the  forefront  of  the  galaxy  of  American 
commonwealths  in  matters  of  humanity,  but  of  the  whole  civilized  world, 
and  the  fact  cannot  be  slurred  over  by  any  writer. 

In  treating  of  the  subject  of  the  basis  of  representation  the  writer  again 
falls  into  a  grave  error  of  omission  on  the  eternal  negro  question.  Vir- 
ginia with  a  splendid  nobility,  without  example  in  the  annals  of  history, 
offered  to  found  representation  on  "^^  the  free  inhabitants'*  alone.  This 
important  fact  escapes  his  notice.— 2  vol.  Bancroft's  Hist,  of  the  Const. , 
p.  13.  The  option  of  "  free  inhabitants  "  basis,  or  the  quotas  of  contri- 
bution to  the  treasury  (ist  Tucker  on  Const.  ^  p.  332),  was  a  part  of 
Randolph's  Plan. 

The  resolution  introduced  by  Mr.  Randolph,  May  29,  constituting  what 
is  known  as  the  Virginia  Plan,  provides  that  "the  rights  of  suffrage  in 
the  National  legislature  ought  to  be  proportioned  to  the  quotas  of  con- 
tribution, or  to  the  number  oi  free  inhabitants.*'     P.  325. 

The  draft  of  the  constitution  entitled  the  *'  Randolph  Draft,"  p.  316, 
is  of  great  interest.  The  book  is  beautifully  printed,  but  not  as  fair  as 
the  work  of  the  great  author  George  Bancroft,  and  consequently  not  as 
valuable. 

S.  S.  P.  Patteson. 

Richmond,  Virginia,  December  14,  i8gg. 


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PUBLICATIONS  RECEIVED. 


Quarterly  Publications  of  the  American  Statistical  Association.  Sep- 
tember, 1899.     Boston. 

United  States  Consular  Reports.    November,  1899,  December,  1899. 

Bulletin  of  the  New  York  Public  Library.     November,  1899. 

Smithsonian  Institution.  Report  upon  the  Condition  and  Progress  of 
the  United  States  National  Museum  during  the  year  ending  June  30, 
1897.     Washington,  1899. 

University  of  Pennsylvania  Bulletin.  Vol.  IV,  No.  2.  Philadelphia, 
November,  1899. 

The  Quarterly  of  the  Texas  State  Historical  Association.  October, 
1899.     Austin,  Texas. 

The  Washington  Historian,  September,  1899.  Washington  State  His- 
torical Society,  Tacoma,  Washington. 

Putnam's  Historical  Magazine,  October,  1899.     Dan  vers,  Mass. 

Mus^e  Des  Antiquity  Nationales  De  Stockholm.  Catalogue  Som- 
maire.    Stockholm,  1899. 

Inception,  Dedicatory  Addresses  and  Description  of  the  Charles  Eli 
Slocum  Library  for  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University. 

Fredericksburg  and  Adjacent  National  Battlefields  Memorial  Associa- 
tion.    With  Map.     Fredericksburg,  Va.,  1899. 

Protestant  Episcopal  Review.  November,  1899.  Theological  Semi- 
nary, Va. 

The  Essex  Antiquarian.     December,  1899.     Salem,  Mass. 

New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record.  New  York  Genea- 
logical and  Biographical  .Society.     October,  1899.    New  York. 

Collections  and  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society.  Octo- 
ber, 1899.     Portland,  Maine. 

Publications  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of  London.  The  Registers  of 
the  French  Church  of  Threadneedle  Street,  London,  1637-85.  London, 
1899. 

Collections  of  the  Historical  Society  of  South  Carolina,  Vols.  I  ^Char- 
leston, 1857);  II  (1858);  III  (1859). 


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Journal  of  a  voyage  to  Charleston  in  South  Carolina,  by  Pelatiah 
Webster,  in  1765.  Edited  by  Professor  T.  P.  Harrison.  Publications 
South  Carolina  Historical  Society.    Charleston,  S.  C,  1898. 

Report  of  the  Committee  of  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society — 
in  the  matter  of  procuring  transcripts  of  the  Colonial  Records  of  this 
State  from  the  London  Record  Offices.  3d  October,  1891.  Charleston, 
S.  C,  1891. 

Oration  Delivered  On  the  Fifth  Anniversary  of  the  South  Carolina 
Historical  Society,  Charleston,  May  23,  i86o.  By  Thos.  M.  Hanckel. 
Charleston,  i860. 

Memoir  of  Professor  F.  A.  Porcher,  late  President  of  the  Society. 
Historical  Society  of  South  Carolina  Papers.     1889,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

The  Shaftesbury  Papers.  Collections  South  Carolina  Historical 
Society.    Printed  for  the  Society,  Richmond,  Va.,  1897. 

War  of  the  Rebellion  Records.  Series  III,  Vol.  I,  II.  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Publications  of  the  American  Jewish  Historical  Society,  No.  7.  Balti- 
more, 1899  Trial  of  Gabriel  De  Granada.  By  the  Inquisition  in  Mexico, 
1642-45.  Translated  from  the  original  by  David  Fergusson.  Edited  with 
notes  by  Cyrus  Adler. 

Commercial  Relations  of  the  United  States,  1898,  2  vols.  Washing- 
ton, 1899. 

Annual  Report  of  the  American  Historical  Association,  1898.  Wash- 
ington, 1899. 

Among  the  papers  in  this  volume  which  are  of  special  interest  and 
value  are  ''American  Colonial  History  1690-1750,*'  by  Charles  M.  An- 
drews: "Study  of  American  Colonial  History,"  by  Professor  H.  L. 
Osgood,  Columbia  University;  **  An  Examination  of  Peters*  *  Blue 
Laws,'  "  by  Walter  F.  Prince;  *'  The  Study  of  History  in  Schools,  being 
the  Report  to  the  American  Historical  Association  by  the  Committee  of 
Seven,"  and  the  "Guide  to  the  items  relating  to  American  History  in 
the  reports  of  the  English  Historical  Manuscripts  Commission  and  the 
Appendices,"  by  Professor  J.  F.  Jameson. 

Early  Settlers  of  Alabama,  by  Colonel  James  Edmonds  Saunders, 
Lawrence  county,  Ala.  With  notes  and  genealogies  by  his  granddaugh- 
ter, Elizabeth  Saunders  Blair  Stubbs,  New  Orleans,  La.  New  Orleans, 
1899. 

This  book  will  be  noticed  in  the  April  number. 


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New  Series. 

**  Collections  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society.  New  Series.  Edited 
by  R.  A.  Brock,  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Librarian  of  the  Society, 
(Seal)  Richmond,  Va.  Published  by  ihe  Society."  Eleven  annual 
volumes,  uniform.  8vo.,  cloth,  issued  1S82-92,  carefully  indexed,  as 
follows : 

The  Official  Letters  of  Alexander  Spotswood,  Lieutenant-Governor  of 
the  Colony  of  Virginia,  1710*1722.    Now  first  printed  from  the  manu- 
script in  the  Collections  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  with  an 
introduction  and  notes.    Vols.  I  and  II. 
Two  Volumes.    Portrait  ana  Arms,    pp  xxi-i79  and  vii-368.  8.00 

The  Official  Records  of  Robert  Dinwiddie,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the 
Colony  of  Virginia,  1751-1758.    Now  first  printed  from  the  manu- 
script in  the  Collections  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  with  an 
introduction  and  notes.     Vols.  I  and  II. 
Two  volumes,   pp.  Ixix>5a8  and  xviii-768.    Portraits,  fac-iimiU  of  letters  of  presentation 
from  W.  W.  Corcoran,  cut  of  Mace  of  Borough  of  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  reproduction  of  the 
Map  of  Virginia,  Maryland,  Delaware  and  Pennsylvania,  engraved  for  Jeffer»on's  Notes 
on  Virginia,  1787.  6.60 

Documents.  Chiefly  Unpublished,  Relating  to  the  Huguenot  Emigration 
to  Virginia  and  to  the  Settlement  at  Manakin  Town,  with  an  Appen- 
dix of  Genealogies,  presenting  data  of  the  Fontaine,  Maury,  Dupuy, 
Trabue,  Marye.  Chastaine,  Cocke  and  other  Families. 
Pages  xxi-247.    Contains  fac-simiU  of  plan  of  "King  William*s  Town."  2 .  60 

Miscellaneous  Papers,  1672-1865.  Now  first  printed  from  the  manuscript 
in  the  Collections  of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society.  Comprising 
Charter  of  the  Royal  African  Co.,  1672;  Report  on  the  Huguenot 
Settlement  1700;  Papers  of  George  Gilmer  of  'Ten  Park,'*  1775-78; 
Orderiy  Book  of  Capt.  George  Stubblefield,  1776;  Career  of  the 
Iron-clad  Virginia,  1862;  Memorial  of  Johnson's  Island,  1862-4;  Beale's 
Cav.  Brigade  Parole,  1865. 
Pages  viii-374.  2.60 

Abstract  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Virginia  Company  of  London,  1619- 
1624,  Prepared  from  the  Records  in  the  Library  of  Congress  by 
Conway  Robinson,  with  an  introduction  and  notes.    Vols.  I  and  II. 
Two  volumes.    Pages  xlvii>2i8  and  300.    The  introduction  contains  a  valuable  critical 
essay  on  the  sources  of  information  for  the  student  of  Virginia  History.  6.00 

The  Histor>'  of  the  Virginia  Federal  Convention  of  1788,  with  some  ac- 
count of  the  Eminent  Virginians  of  that  era  who  were  members  of 
the  Body,  by  Hugh   Blair  Grigsby.  LL.  D-,  with  a   Biographical 
Sketch  of  the  Author  and  illustrative  notes.    Vols.  I  and  II. 
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Contains  cut  of  the  Society's  Building,  accounts  of  the  proceeding:8  and  transactions  of 
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and  papers  which  have  never  before  appeared  in  print.  Among  others  may  be  mentioned, 
Discourse  of  the  London  Company  on  its  administration  of  Virginia  affairs,  1607-1634; 
Abstracts  of  Colonial  Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virginia  Land  Office,  beginning  in  1624, 
with  full  genealogical  notes  and  an  extended  Genealogy  of  the  Claiborne  Family ;  The 
Mutiny  in  Virginia  in  1635;  Samuel  Matthew's  Letter  and  Sir  John  Harvey's  Declaration ; 
Speech  of  Governor  Berkeley  and  Declaration  of  the  Assembly  with  reference  to  the  change 
of  Government  in  England  and  the  passage  of  the  First  Navigation  Act  of  1651 ;  Petition 
of  the  Planters  of  Virginia  and  Mar>'land  in  opposition  i  o  the  Navigation  Act  of  1661 ; 
Bacon's  Rebellion,  1676;  His  three  proclamations,  Letters -^  f  Sherwood  and  Ludwell,  Pro- 
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year  1894,  and  the  following  list  of  articles  copied  from  the  original  documents :  Report 
of  Governor  and  Council  on  the  Condition  of  Affairs  in  Virginia  in  1626 ;  Abstracts  of  Col- 
onial Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virgmia  Land  Office,  with  full  genealogical  notes  and 
extended  genealogies  of  the  Fleet.  Robins  and  Thoroughgood  Families ;  Reports  of  Griev- 
ances by  the  Counties  of  Virginia  after  the  su{>prcasion  of  Bacon's  Insurrection ;  A  full  his- 
tory of  the  First  Legislative  Assembly  ever  held  in  America  (that  in  1619  at  Jamestown), 
written  by  Hon.  Wm.  Wirt  Henry;  The  concluding  list  of  Virginia  Soldiers  engaged  in 
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Continental  Line,  compiled  from  official  sources ;  A  valuable  account  of  the  Indian  Wars 
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tinued; Instructions  to  Berkeley,  166a:  Virginia  under  Governors  Harvey  and  Gooch; 
Causes  of  Discontent  leading  to  the  Insurrection  of  l666  under  Bacon ;  Will  of  Benjamin 
Harrison  the  EMer ;  Culpeper's  Report  on  Virginia  in  1683 ;  Defense  of  Col.  Edward  Hill ; 
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Richard  Lee,  and  Sir  John  Randolph ;  Decisions  of  the  General  Court  of  Virginia,  1626- 
1638,  first  instalment;  Indictment  of  Governor  Nicholson  by  the  leading  members  of  his 
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matter  obtained  from  England  ;  Genealogies  of  the  Floumoy,  Cocke,  Carr,  Todd  and  Chap- 
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Volume  IV— Octavo,  pp  49a>i-xxiii. 

Contains  the  following  general  list  of  Contents :  A  Marriage  Agreement  between  John 
Custis  and  his  wife  ;  A  Perswasive  to  Towns  and  Cohabiutioti  by  Rev.  Francis  Mackemie 
1705;  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents  for  1635-^ ;  Army  Supplies  In  the  Revolution. 
Series  of  original  letters  by  Judge  Innes;  Attacks  by  the  Dutch  on  Virginia  Fleet,  1667: 
Boundary  Line  Proceedings,  for  Virginia  and  North  Carolina  1710 ;  Charges  against  Spots- 
wood  by  House  of  Burgess  17 19 ;  Council  Proceedings,  1716-1717;  Decisions  of  Virginia 
c;encral  Court,  i6a6-38  Continued  ;  Defence  of  Colonel  Edward  Hill  Continued  Depositions 
of  Revolutionary  Soldiers  from  County  records ;  Early  Spotsylvania  Marriage  Licenses: 
Genealogy— Cocke,  Floumoy,  Trabue,  Jones,  and  Rootes  Families;  Historical  Notes  and 
Queries  ;  A  full  list  of  House  of  Burgesses,  1766  to  1775 ;  Instructions  to  Governor  Francis 
Nicholson  :  Letter  and  Proclamation  of  Argall;  Letters  of  William  Fitzhugh  ;  Narrative  of 
Bacon's  Rebellion  by  the  English  Commissioners ;  full  abstracts  of  Northampton  County 
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Volume  V— Octavo,  pp.  473-i-xxiii. 

Contahis  the  following  general  list  of  ContenU :  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents, 
1636;  and  Patents  and  Grants,  1769;  Rappahannock  and  Isle  of  Wight  Wills,  17th  Century: 
Government  of  Virginia,  1666;  Bacon's  Men  in  Surry  ;  and  List  of  Persons  Suffering  by  the 
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eley ;  Will  of  Mrs.  Mary  Willing  Byrd ;  Inventory  of  Robert  Carter ;  Virginia  Society  of 
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CONTENTS  VOLUME  ONE.  p^^^^ 

Introduction 3 

Land  and  Slave  Owners.  Princess  Anne  County.  1771,  1772,  ;773 

and  1774 4 

A  Frolic  in  ye  Olden  Time 6 

Births  and  Baptisms.  Norfolk  County 10 

Slave  Owners  and  Slave  Employers.  Princess  Anne  County,  i860. .     11 

Norfolk  Federalist  Aldermen 16 

Election  for  Vestrymen,  Norfolk  County,  1761 18 

Witchcraft  in  Virginia 20 

The  Norfolk  Academy 21 

Slave  Owners.  Princess  Anne  County,  1850 39 

Newton-Washington  Letters 44 

One  of  the  Duties  of  Vestrymen 45 

Princess  Anne  County  Committee  of  Safety,  1775 — ^Anthony  Law- 
son  45 

James  Silk  Buckingham *  55 

Witchcraft  in  Virginia  56 

Slave  Owners  and  Slave  Employers  in  Princess  Anne  County,  i860,    57 

Vestrymen  of  Elizabeth  River  Parish.  1779 59 

Andrew  Lee,  Roman  Catholick 59 

My  Mother ' 60 

Tobacco  Commissioners.  Princess  Anne  County,  1725  64 

Processioners  of  Land,  Princess  Anne  County.  1779 64 

Two  Early  Philanthropists  65 

Slave  Owners.  Princess  Anne  County.  1810 69 

Norfolk  Public  School 78 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County 81 

Princess  Anne  County  Committee  of  Safety.  1775 — William  Nimmo,    8s 

My  Mother 96 

Vestrymen  Portsmouth  Parish,  1779 102 

Mary  Moseley's  Shopping  Bill 103 

Going  to  Church  Armed 103 

Lower  Norfolk  County  Libraries 104 

Public  School  in  Princess  Anne  County  in  1736 106 

Land  and  Slave  Owners,  Princess  Anne  County.  1776 107 

My  Mother 109 

Lower  Norfolk  County  Libraries 121 

Princess  Anne  County  Committee  of  Safety,    1775 — Christopher 

Wright    124 

Peyton  Randolph.  Norfolk  Recorder 137 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County 139 

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CONTENTS. 

1.  The  Indians  of  Southern  Virginia,  1650-1711 337 

2.  Will  of  Josia3  Mackie 358 

3.  The  Virginia  Census.  1624-25 364 

4.  Virginia  in  1629  and  1630 368 

5.  Papei-s  Relating  to  to  the  Administration  of  Gov. 

Nicholson  and  to  the  Founding  of  William 

and  Mary  College 386 

6.  Reminiscenses  of  Western  Virginia,  1770-1790,  401 

7.  Richmond  During  the  War  of  1812 406 

8.  Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revolution 418 

9.  Marriage  Licenses,  Augusta  Co.,  Va.,  1749-1773,  421 

10.  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents 423 

11.  Genealogy 425 

Fitzhugh  ( illustrated ),  Coles,  Booker,  Farrar,  Eskridge, 
Yates,  Bassett-Stith,  Poythress  and  Ball  Families. 

12.  Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  and  Queries...       441 

Information  wanted  of  the  Goudy,  Porter,  Payne-Vines, 
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Vol.  VII.  APRIL.  1900.  No.  4 


THE  INDIANS  OF  SOUTHERN  VIRGINIA, 
1650-1711. 


Depositions   in   the  Virginia   and    North   Carolina 
Boundary  Case. 


[The  dates  given  in  the  title  include,  approximately,  the 
period  covered  by  a  number  of  depositions  taken  during  the 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina  boundary  line  dispute,  1707-1711. 
By  the  charter  of  North  Carolina,  granted  in  1665,  it  was  directed 
that  the  northern  boundary  of  that  colony  should  be  a  line  run- 
ning from  *'the  north  end  of  Currituck  river  or  inlet  upon 
a  strait  westerly  line  to  Wyanoak  Creek,  in  or  about  36°  30'  no. 
latitude. ' '  North  Carolina  claimed  that  this  *  *  Wyanoak  Creek  * ' 
was  the  Nottoway  river;  Virginia,  that  it  was  Wococon,  or 
Wickocon,  Creek,  which  enters  the  Chowan  from  the  west, 
about  fifteen  miles  below  the  mouth  of  the  Nottoway.  A  knowl- 
edge of  the  history  of  the  various  movements  of  the  Indian 
tribes  inhabiting  that  section  of  country  was  necessary  to  deter- 
mine which  claim  was  correct.  For  this  reason,  therefore,  a 
considerable  amount  of  evidence  was  collected  in  regard  to  a 
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history  of  the  Indian  tribes  of  southern  Virginia  from  about  1650 
to  1711. 

The  massacres  of  March  22,  1621-22,  and  of  April  18,  1644, 
were  followed  by  prompt  and  stern  retaliation.  After  the  first 
massacre,  constant  attacks  were  made  upon  the  Indians  until 
1630,  and  in  1631-32  they  were  declared  *  *  unreconcilable  ene- 
mies/' and  all  commanders  were  authorized  to  raise  sufficient 
parties  and  fall  upon  any  found  lurking  on  a  plantation  or  molest- 
ing cattle,  &c.  But  it  appears  that  in  1633  {Hening,  I,  219,)  a 
considerable  trade  with  them  had  spnmg  up,  and  in  1642-3  that 
various  persons  employed  Indians  to  hunt  (/^.,  255). 

The  massacre  of  1644  was  again  followed  by  invasions  of  the 
Indian  country,  with  such  success  that  the  power  of  the  neigh- 
boring tribes  was  broken.  At  the  session  of  the  Assembly, 
1644-5,  the  inhabitants  of  the  country'  on  the  south  side  of  James 
river  were  ordered  to  make  constant  marches  upon  the  Indians 
{Ib.y  292).  In  March,  1645-6,  war  was  again  declared  upon  the 
*'  Nansimum'*  and  adjoining  tribes  (/^.,  315),  but  within  a  few 
months  the  natives  had  been  so  thoroughly  subdued  that  in  Oc- 
tober, 1646,  the  Assembly  repealed  the  acts  of  1643  prohibiting 
trade  with  the  Indians,  for  cutting  down  their  com,  for  making 
war  upon  the  Nansemonds,  and  also  the  14th,  15th  and  i6th  acts 
of  said  Assembly  (1643),  which  were  no  doubt  aimed  against  the 
Indians.  It  is  worth  noting  that  no  acts  of  1643,  as  described, 
appear  in  Hening.  This  was  probably  an  Assembly  which  was 
in  session  at  the  time  of  the  massacre,  1643-4.  (Since  this  was 
written,  examination  of  memoranda  among  the  Robinson  MS., 
in  the  collection  of  this  Society,  shows  that  a  session  was  called 
for  the  spring  of  1643-44,  but  no  record  of  its  proceedings  is 
preserved.)  At  the  same  session,  of  October,  1646,  a  treaty  of 
peace  {lb.,  323)  was  confirmed  with  "  Nectowance,  king  of  the 
Indians,"  the  successor  of  Opechancanough,  who  appears  to 
have  been  the  chief  of  all  the  neighboring  tribes  on  the  south  as 
well  as  the  north  side  of  the  river.  From  this  period,  for  a 
number  of  years,  the  policy  of  the  Virginia  government  towards 
the  Indians  was  not  illiberal.  Acts  for  their  benefit  and  protec- 
tion were  passed  at  the  session  of  July,  1653  C^^-*  380),  March, 
'f'SS-^  C^^*  393)'  March,  1657-8  {lb.,  457,  467),  and  March, 
1661-2  (/b..  II,  138).     In  March.  1659-60  {lb.,  I,  547),  it  was 


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enacted  that,  as  the  King  of  Wyanoak,  *'by  reason  of  many 
disadvantageous  bargains  with  the  English/*  had  gotten  into 
debt  and  been  arrested  by  his  creditors,  **  whereby  much  detri- 
ment hath  accrued  to  the  publique,**  he  should,  in  accordance 
with  his  petition,  be  exempt  from  arrest  for  debt  until  the  first  of 
March  succeeding. 

In  October,  1665,  the  Assembly  fixed  the  Indian  boundary, 
which  they  were  not  to  pass  without  permission,  as  a  line  extend- 
ing from  the  southern  branch  of  Blackwater  to  Appomattox 
Indian  town,  and  thence  to  the  Manakin  town  on  James  river. 

War  with  the  Indians  broke  out  again  in  1676,  but  a  general 
peace  was  made  on  May  29,  1677;  and  after  that  date  there  is 
little  legislative  action  in  regard  to  the  dwindling  remnants  of 
the  tribes  south  of  James  river,  except  for  the  prevention  of  en- 
croachment on  their  lands  and  the  sale  of  liquor  to  them.  These, 
like  more  modern  laws  for  the  same  purpose,  were  probably  not 
very  effective. 

At  the  session  of  March,  1692-3,  Surry  county  court  was  di- 
rected to  assign  marks  for  the  hogs  of  the  Nottoway  and  Wyan- 
oak Indians  {Id.,  Ill,  109).  In  October,  1705,  another  general 
act  for  the  protection  of  the  Indians  was  passed  (/^.,  464).  In 
August,  1734  {Ib.y  IV,  459),  an  act  was  passed  reciting  that  the 
Nottoway  Indians  owned  a  tract  of  land  in  the  form  of  a  circle, 
six  miles  in  diameter,  on  the  north  side  of  Nottoway  river,  and 
another  tract,  six  miles  square,  on  the  south  side;  that  the  nation 
had  of  late,  by  wars,  sickness,  &c. ,  been  reduced  to  a  small 
number,  and  authorizing  them  to  sell  the  tract  on  the  north  side. 
In  September,  1744  (/<^.,  V,  170),  as  they  had  been  still  more 
reduced  in  number,  they  were  allowed  to  sell  5,000  acres  of  the 
tract  on  the  south  side,  adjoining  Buckhom  swamp.  The  same 
act  declared  that  the  Nansemonds  owned  300  acres  in  Nanse- 
mond  county,  bounded  by  the  county  line  and  Nottoway  river; 
but  that  they  had  been  so  reduced  in  numbers  as  to  be  unable  to 
support  themselves  by  hunting,  and  had  been  obliged  to  cohabit 
with  the  Nottoways  for  more  than  seven  years  past.  They  were 
therefore  allowed  to  sell  their  300  acres.  It  would  appear  from 
the  language  of  the  act  that  fragments  of  other  tribes  had  also 
joined  the  Nottoways.  In  1748  {lb,,  VI,  211)  the  Nottoways 
were  permitted  to  sell  3,000  acres  more,  and,  in  1756,  another 


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bw  st^ed  that  since  174S  the  Nottorays  had  been  still  further 
reduced  in  nun^ber  by  "  the  wa:::  of  the  cooimon  necessaries  of 
life,  sickness  and  ether  casualnes";  so  for  this  reason  they  were 
allowed  to  s<rll  5.000  acres  c^re.  And  in  1772  they  were  autho- 
rized to  lease  half  their  lands. 

Byrd,  in  his  //:s:s'j  cf  the  Dividing  U>;€,  has  frequent  refer- 
ences to  the  Indians  of  this  section.  While  in  camp  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Nottoway  river  Awhile  running  the  line  in  1728), 
three  of  the  Meherrins  \-isiied  him.  They  told  him  their  people 
had  deserted  their  ancient  town  near  the  mouth  of  the  Meherrin 
river,  for  fear  of  the  Catawbas,  who  had  killed  fourteen  of  them 
the  year  before,  and  the  few  sur\'ivors  had  taken  refuge  among 
the  EUiglish  on  the  east  side  of  Chowan  river.  He  also  gives  an 
interesting  account  of  his  vi-it  to  the  Nottoway  town.  This 
tribe  then  numbered  about  200.  In  1670  the  number  of  tribu- 
tary Indians  was  stated  to  be:  in  Nansemond  county,  45  hunters; 
in  Surry,  of  the  Pawchayicks  30  hunters  and  the  Wyanokes  15; 
in  Charles  City  county  (now  Prince  George,  &c.),  of  the  Men- 
heyricks  50,  Nottoways,  two  towns,  90,  and  Appomattox  50. 

The  dispute  about  the  boundary'  line  which  caused  these  depo- 
sitions to  be  taken  was  long  an  unsettled  and  troublesome  ques- 
tion. At  this  time,  though  Virginia  was  earnestly  desirous  of 
fixing  a  line,  nothing  was  done.  The  report  and  correspondence 
of  Ludwell  and  Harrison,  the  Virginia  commissioners,  are  among 
the  Ludwell  Papers,  in  the  collection  of  this  Society,  and  have 
been  published  in  this  Magazine,  IV,  30-42,  V,  121.  A  letter 
from  Wm.  Glover,  Samuel  Swann,  &c.,  North  Carolina,  June 
17,  1707,  was  also  printed  in  V,  268-271. 

The  eastern  portion  of  the  line  was  finally  determined  in  1728, 
when  the  Virginia  commissioners  were  Wm.  Byrd,  Wm.  Dan- 
dridge  and  Richard  Fitzvvilliams.  North  Carolina's  claim  was 
proved  to  be  correct.  Colonel  Byrd*s  delightful  History  of  ike 
Dividing  Line  is  well  known.] 

Pkinck  Gkor(;e  County — ss : 

Robert  Boiling,*  Gent.,  aged  sixty-one  Years  or  thereabout 

Sworn  Saith: 
That  he  hath  known  the  River  now  called  Nottoway  River  for 
the  Space  of  about  thirty-seven  years  or  more;  and  that  then  it 


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was  called  by  the  name  of  Nottoway  River,  and  by  no  other 
name  that  the  Deponent  knows  or  has  heard.  That  when  this 
Deponent  was  first  acquainted  in  those  parts,  some  of  the  Not- 
taway  Indians  had  a  Town  on  the  south  side  of  the  River  where 
Maj'  Joshua  Wynn*s  Quarter  now  is,  about  three  miles  above 
the  mouth  of  Monks* -neck  Creek;*  others  of  ihem  Lived  at 
Rowontee,  which  is  about  four  miles  up  Monksneck  Creek ;  and 
others  of  them  lived  on  the  North  side  of  the  River,  at  a  place 
called  (both  now  and  then)  Tonnatorah.f  And  that  at  the  same 
time  the  Meherin  Indians  lived  upon  Meherin  RiVer;  some  of 
them  at  Cowinchahawkon,  and  the  others  at  Unote;  and  there 
they  continued  to  Live  till  about  the  year  one  thousand  six  hun- 
dred and  eighty,  or  Longer,  as  the  Deponent  believes,  but  he 
cannot  particularly  remember  the  time  of  their  Removall.  And 
further  this  Deponent  saith  not. 

Robert  Rolling. 
Sworn  before  us: 

B.  Harrison,  Jun',         Jn'  Hardyman,' 


Prince  George  County— ^^.• 

Thomas  Wynn,  Gent.,  aged  fifty  years  or  thereabouts,  Sworn, 
saith: 

That  he  hath  known  the  River  now  called  Nottoway  River  for 
the  Space  of  about  thirty  years  or  more  and  then  it  was  called 
by  the  same  name  and  never  had  any  other  that  the  Deponent 
knows  or  has  heard. 

That  when  the  Deponent  was  first  acquainted  in  those  parts, 
the  Nottoway  Indians  lived  soine  at  Rowontee,  and  some  at 
Tonnatorah,  and  that  they  continued  at  those  places,  and  others 


•  Monk's  Neck  creek  rises  in  Dinwiddie  county  and*  flows  into  Ro- 
wanty  creek,  an  aflluent  of  the  Nottoway  river.  Hatcher's  Run,  well 
known  during  the  war  between  the  States,  flows  into  it. 

t  This  name  does  not  apF>ear  on  any  accessible  map.  We  shall  be 
obliged  for  communications  from  any  persons  having  the  requisite  local 
knowledge,  who  may  be  able  to  identify  any  of  the  places  with  Indian 
names,  referred  to  in  the  text,  or  who  can  state  whether  any  evidence 
of  Indian  residence  remains  at  the  sites  of  the  various  towns. 


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near  the  Nottoway  River,  till  about  five  or  six  and  twenty  years 
ago;  and  then  they  removed  and  settled  their  great  Town  upon 
Atsamonsock  Swamp,  at  the  place  now  called  the  old  Town. 
That  about  thirty  years  ago  the  Meherin  Indians  Lived  part  at 
Cowonchahawkon  and  parte  at  Unote;  and  about  two  and  twenty 
years  ago  they  settled  their  chief  Town  at  the  mouth  of  the 
River  where  they  now  live.  That  about  fifteen  years  ago  this 
Deponent  having  some  Discourse  with  the  old  Meherin  Indians, 
they  told  him  that  Waynoke  creek  lay  to  the  Southward  of  Me- 
herrin  River,  about  Eight  or  Tenn  miles  from  th^  present  Meher- 
rin  Town ;  and  that  the  Waynoaks  had  a  town  a  great  while  ago, 
in  a  Forke  between  two  Swamps  at  the  head  of  that  creeke. 
And  that  within  these  dve  or  six  years  he  has  had  the  some  ac- 
count from  the  old  men  of  the  Nottaways  &  Powehaicks  (or 
Nansemunds)  and  also  that  about  the  same  time  the  Nottaway 
Indians  told  the  Deponent  that  when  the  Waynoaks  Lived  at 
Wariecake  on  Nottaway  River  they  paid  an  acknowledgment  to 
the  Nottaways  for  the  liberty  of  Living  there,  and  further  this 
Deponent  saith  not. 

Tho.  Wynne. 
Novemb.  12,  1707. 

Sworn  before  us: 

B.  Harrison,  Jun',         Jno.  Hardyman. 


Prince  George  County — ^^.• 

James  Thweat,'  aged  sixty-four  years  or  thereabouts,  sworn 
saith : 

That  he  hath  known  the  River  now  called  Nottoway  River  for 
the  space  of  about  Eight  and  fourty  years  or  more  and  then  it 
was  called  by  the  name  of  Nottoway  River  and  by  no  other  name 
that  the  Deponent  knows  or  has  heard. 

That  when  this  Deponent  was  first  acquainted  in  those  parts, 
the  chief  town  of  the  Nottoway  Indians  was  on  the  south  side 
of  the  River  where  Major  Wynn's  Quarter  now  is,  about  three 
miles  above  the  mouth  of  Monksneck  Creek,  and  some  few  of 
them  lived  at  Rowonte,  which  is  about  4  miles  up  Monksneck 
creek;  and  two  or  three  Familyes  of  them  at  Tonnatorah,  which 
is  on  the  North  side  of  the  River.     And  that  they  lived  at  some 


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of  these  places,  and  at  Cottasho wreck,  and  there  abouts,  till 
about  dve  or  six  and  Twenty  years  ago,  and  then  they  removed 
and  setled  their  great  Town  upon  Atyamonsock  Swamp  at  the 
place  now  called  the  Old  Town. 

That  about  fourty-eight  years  ago  the  Meherin  Indians  lived 
upon  Meherin  River  at  Cowochahawkon,  and  some  of  them  at 
Unote,  and  about  four  and  twenty  years  ago  they  Lived  Some 
of  them  at  Unote  and  some  at  Taurara,  but  how  long  they  lived 
there  after  that  time,  he  cannot  particularly  remember.  And 
further  this  Deponent  saith  not. 

James  Thweatt. 
Novemb.  12,  1707. 

Sworn  before  us: 

B.  Harrison,  Jr.,         Jno.  Hardyman. 


[Next  follows   the  deposition  of  Benjamin   Harrison,  Esq., 
printed  in  this  Magazine,  Vol.  V,  47-50.] 


North  Carolina — ss: 

William  Bonner,  aged  seventy-four  years  or  thereabout,  on  his 
oath  on  the  holy  evangelist  taken,  saith: 

That  he  hath  lived  in  Nansemond  county  in  Virginia  from  the 
year  1656  till  the  year  1705,  and  that  about  twenty-four  years 
agon  he  came  to  a  piece  of  Land  which  Nathan  King  had  kept 
under  an  Entry  by  the  name  of  Wyanoake;  he  very  well  remem- 
bers a  hole  which  was  in  the  ground  near  the  river  (which  went 
to  South  Key),  where  one  Perkins  formerly  lived,  opposite  to 
which  was  a  Bay,  River  or  Creek  that  went  by  the  name  of 
Wyanoake  creek,  as  he  was  informed  by  divers  ancient  people 
that  was  there  with  this  Deponent;  the  said  Nathan  would  have 
agreed  with  this  Deponent  to  have  lived  thereon,  but  he  would 
not.  And  this  Deponent  further  saith  that  about  eighteen  years 
agon  he  was  at  the  Plantation  of  Mr.  John  Dery,  lately  the 
Plantation  of  John  Odom,  of  at  Sommerton,*  in  Nansemond 
county,  where  he  saw  Col.  Millner*  &  Mr.  Heslete,  who  were 
survey",  with  divers  other  people;  he  saw  two  persons  carrying 
a  Chain  and  heard  Coll.  Millner  say.  Wind  it  up,  we  have  done; 


^  Sommerton,  in  Nansemond  county,  near  the  North  Carolina  line. 


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he  also  heard  him  say:  That  half  Sommerton  would  be  in  the 
Southward.  The  course  which  this  Deponent  saw  him  go  went 
to  John  Dery*s  Tobacco  house.  And  this  Deponent  further 
saith:  That  before  Coll.  Millner  went  away  he  heard  him  say: 
That  whenever  the  line  was  run  between  the  Southward  and  Vir- 
ginia, Thomas  Goff*s  Plantation  (which  was  about  a  mile  from 
Dery's)  would  be  in  the  Southward. 

the  mark  of 
William    X    Bonner. 

October  the  fourth,  171 2. 

Sworn  before  me, 

Edw*d  Moseley. 
A  True  Copy — Test:  Edw*  Moseley. 


North  Carolina — ^^.• 

James  Farlow,  aged  sixty-six  years  or  thereabout,  being  inter- 
rogated on  oath,  makes  the  following  answers: 

Quest.  I.   How  long  have  you  lived  in  Carolina? 

Ans.  I.  About  thirty  years. 

Quest.  2.  What  do  you  know  concerning  Wyanoake  ? 

Ans.  2.  When  I  first  came  to  Carolina  the  river  now  called 
Nottoway  was  then  called  Wyanoake  river  by  the  inhabitants  of 
Carolina.  And  Meherrin  River  was  called  Nottoway  river.  And 
that  they  knew  nothing  of  Meherrin  river  till  he  told  them  that 
River  which  they  then  called  Nottoway  river  was  Meherrin  river. 

Quest.  3.  How  long  did  you  live  in  Virginia  before  you  came 
to  Carolina,  and  where  there  ? 

Ans.  3.  About  fourteen  years  in  Appomattox  &  Wyanoake. 

Quest.  4.  What  do  you  know  concerning  Nottoway  &  Meher- 
rin river? 

Ans.  4.  Severall  times  while  I  lived  in  Virginia  I  crossed  both 
these  rivers;  the  lowest  crossed,  Nottaway  river,  was  about  eight 
miles  below  Tonnatora,  at  which  place  &  Tonnatora  the  Notta- 
way Indians  then  lived,  and  Cohannehahanka  was  the  lowest.  I 
crossed  Meherrin  river  where  the  Meherrins  then  lived;  all  the 
while  I  lived  in  Virginia  I  never  knew  those  rivers  called  by  any 


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Other  names  than  Nottaway  and  Meherrin  till  such  time  as  I 
came  to  live  in  Carolina. 
May  19,  1711. 

Sworn  before  me,  Edwd.  Moseley. 

And  in  the  pressence  of  the  Commissioners  for  Virginia. 
A  True  Copy — Test:  Ed***  Moseley. 


North  Carolina — ss: 

Lawrence  Mague,  aged  fourty-three  years  or  thereabout,  being 

interrogated  on  oath,  made  the  following  answers: 
Ques.  I.   What  do  you  know  concerning  the  Boundary  be- 
tween Virginia  and  Carolina  ? 

Answer  i.  About  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  agon  I  lived  with 
Coll.  Thomas  Millner  in  Nansemond  in  Virginia,  and  I  remem- 
ber that  Mr.  .Wm.  Heslett  came  home  with  Coll.  Millner  and  I 
heard  Coll.  Millner  say  That  part  a  half  of  John  Dery's  Tobacco 
house  in  Summerton  would  be  in  the  line. 
May  19,  1711. 

Sworn  before  me,  Ed"*  Moseley. 

And  in  presence  of  the  Commissioners  for  Virginia. 
A  True  Copy — Teste:  Edw*  Moseley. 


North  Carolina,  ) 
Currictuck  Precinct,  )  ^^ ' 

George  Bullock,  aged  seaventy-six  years  or  thereabouts, 
sworne,  saith: 

That  about  fifty  years  agon  he  came  from  Elizabeth  river  in 
Virginia  to  Knott's  Island,  and  hath  lived  therein  ever  since, 
excepting  a  year  or  two  that  he  did  journey  work  in  other  places. 
And  he  very  well  remembers  that  when  Mr.  Samuell  Stephens  * 


♦Samuel  Stephens  was  commissioned  governor  of  "Albemarle"  (N. 
0,  in  1667,  and  it  has  been  generally  stated  that  he  held  the  oflfice  until 
his  death  in  1673  o**  >674-  But  if  he  was,  as  has  been  always  believed, 
the  Samuel  Stephens  whose  widow  married  Governor  Berkeley,  the 
North  Carolina  historians  have  been  mistaken  in  the  date  of  his  death, 
for  deeds  have  been  preserved  which  show  that  Mrs.  Francis  Stephens 
and  Sir  William  Berkeley  were  married  between  June  19  and  21,  1670. 


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was  governor  of  Carolina  and  had  engaged  in  a  warr  with 
the  Tuskaruro  Indian,  That  divers  people  inhabiting  Knott's 
plane  and  the  Back  bay  and  crossing  to  the  Northward  of  Curri- 
tuck Inlett.  were  pressed  /'by  authority  from  Carolina;  for  that 
service,  and  readily  yielded  their  obedience  and  paid  their 
I^eavyes  and  Taxes  to  the  Government  of  Carolina,  it  being  re- 
ported as  part  of  Carolina  till  about  thirty  years  agon ;  this  Depo- 
nent and  divers  people  who  held  their  Lands  on  Knott's  Island, 
the  Back  Bay  and  other  places  by  entryes  made  in  Carolina  and 
as  part  of  Carolina,  Surveyed  and  Patented  their  Land  under 
the  Government  of  Virginia,  fearing  to  loose  the  same  should 
they  persist  in  holding  it  any  longer  under  the  Government  of 
Carolina.  The  surveyor  and  divers  other  people  threatning  to 
take  it  from  them  if  they  neglected  to  survey  and  Patent  it  under 
the  Government  of  Virginia.  The  Government  of  Carolina, 
being  then  in  great  confiision,  took  no  notice  thereof 

That  about  fourty-six  years  agon,  to  the  best  of  his  remem- 
brances, Mr.  George  Durant*  a  survey'  of  Carolina  &  Mr.  Wil- 


The  editor  of  the  Colonial  records  of  North  Carolina,  in  his  preface  to 
Volume  I,  however,  says:  *'  It  is  generally  assumed  that  Stephens  con- 
tinued to  be  governor  from  1667  'till  his  death  in  1674,  yet  it  would  seem 
from  the  '  Instructions  to  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Albemarle,'  that 
Peter  Cataret  was  governor  in  1670."  Cataret  no  doubt  succeeded  on 
the  death  of  Stephens.  Samuel  Stephens,  of  Warwick  county,  Virginia, 
son  of  Captain  Richard  Stephens,  of  the  Virginia  Council  (who  died  in 
1636,  and  whose  widow,  Elizabeth,  married  Governor  Sir  John  Harvey), 
was  no  doubt  the  person  who  was  governor  of  North  Carolina.  He 
married  Frances  Culpeper,  who  married  secondly,  Governor  Berkeley, 
and  thirdly,  Colonel  Philip  Ludwell,  of  "  Richneck,"  James  City  county, 
Virginia,  who  was  also  governor  of  North  Carolina. 

*  George  Durant,  or  Durand,  who  is  variously  represented  to  have 
been  a  (Juaker  and  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  elder,  is  generally  stated  to 
have  been  the  "  Mr.  Durand,"  elder  in  a  Puritan  "  very  orthodox  church," 
who  was  banished  from  Virginia  in  1648.  But  the  Durand  who  was  fined 
and  banished  in  1648,  was  William  Durand,  of  Lower  Norfolk  county. 
An  account  of  the  proceedings  against  him  will  be  found  in  Volume  II, 
Lower  Norfolk  Quarterly,  It  is  not  stated  in  this  account  that  he  was 
banished;  but  in  a  later  grant  of  his  confiscated  lands,  the  fact  of  his 
banishment  is  noticed.  George  Durand  took  part  in  Culpeper's  insur- 
rection in  1677,  and  was  attorney-general  of  North  Carolina,  1679. 


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loughby  went  to  England  as  agents  concerning  the  boundary  of 
Carolina,  and  he  believes  that  charges  were  paid  by  the  country 
he,  this  deponent,  paying  his  proportionable  part  thereof,  and 
upon  Mr.  Geo.  Durant's  arrivall  from  England  which  was  about 
fourty-five  years  agon,  this  Deponent  very  well  remembers  that 
he,  the  said  Durant,  with  divers  others  went  and  observed  at  the 
North  side  of  Currituck  inlett,  where  the  Commissioners  of  Vir- 
ginia and  Carolina  have  very  lately  observed. 

the  mark  of 
George  X  Bullock. 
June  the  8th,  171 1. 
Swome  before  us: 

Edw**  Moseley,         J  no.  Lawson. 
A  True  copy — Test:  Ed*^  Moseley. 


North  Carolina. 

Before  me,  Edward  Moseley,  Esq',  one  of  the  members  of  the 
Councill,  and  being  authorized  to  take  the  Depositions  of  certain 
persons  relating  to  the  Boundary  of  this  Government,  Personally 
came  and  appeared  Mr.  Edward  Smeth wick, aged  sixty-one  years, 
who  on  his  oath  on  the  Holy  Evangelists,  taken,  saith  That  he 
came  into  this  Country  the  first  year  it  was  settled  and  that  he  very 
well  remembers  That  Nottaway,  now  called,  was  then  called  Wya- 
noke,  and  that  Weecamoc  creek  was  not  then  Inhabited  by  any 
Indians,  But  that  after  the  year  when  Bacon  rose  in  armes,  the 
Chowan  Indians  removed  from  the  river  side  and  settled  up  that 
creek  in  judging  it  more  secure. 

Edward  Smethwick. 

Coram  me: 

Edwd.  Moseley. 

Copia  vera — Test:  Edwd.  Moseley. 

Capt  et  Jurat  vocelssemo  nom  die  Julii,  anno  Dom',  1710. 

No.  Carolina,       ) 
Currituck  Precinct,  j 

Richard  Saunderson,  Sr.,  Esq.,  aged  Seventy  years  or  there- 
about, being  sworn  on  the  holy  Evangelist,  saith: 
That  he  has  lived  in  this  Country  ever  since  ye  year  next  after 
King  Charls  the  second  was  Restored,  and  that  he  well  remem- 


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bers  that  the  Government  of  North  Carolina  att  the  first  settle- 
ment thereof  commanded  all  the  back  bay  &  as  far  as  any  water 
went  within  land  &  so  far  was  accounted  the  government  of  Car- 
olina, And  further  saith  that  one  Peter  Malbourn  *  was  chosen  a 
Burgess  for  the  Assembly  of  North  Carolina,  who  then  lived 
near  the  head  of  Currituck  Bay,  which  runs  about  twelve  or 
fourteen  miles  to  the  norw'd  of  Currituck  Inlett,  &  this  Depo- 
nent further  saies  that  when  Mr.  Drummond  f  was  Govern'  of 
North  Carolina,  The  Inhabitants  thereof  went  out  against  the 
Tuskeruro  Indians  who  had  killed  some  English  dwelling  on  the 
So.  shore  in  Carolina,  &  that  at  the  same  time  severall  people 
dwelling  on  the  back  bay  &  to  the  Norward  of  Currituck  Inlett 
some  twelve  or  fourteen  miles  were  pressed  to  go  out  against  the 
said  Indians  in  behalf  of  the  government  of  North  Carolina,  & 
further  saith  not. 

Richard  Sanderson. 

« 

The  said  Deposition  taken  before  us  this  thirteenth  day  of 
June,  1711: 

.  Edwd.  Moseley,         John  Lawson. 

True  copie — Test:  J  no.  Lawson. 


N.  Carolina — ss: 

The   Deposition   of  Willy"   Duckenfield,   Esq.,  aged  about 
sixty-seven  years,  being  sworn  on  the  holy  Evangelist,  saith 


*  Peter  Malborne  had  been  a  resident  of  Lower  Norfolk  county,  Vir- 
ginia. There  is  among  the  records  of  that  county  a  def>osition  made  by 
him  in  1657,  when  twenty-four  years  of  age.  There  is  also  a  deed  from 
him.  The  family  of  Malbone  was.  long  resident  in  Norfolk  and  Prin- 
cess Ahne.  The  noted,  or  notorious,  Godfrey  Malbone.  of  Rhode 
Island,  was  of  this  family. 

t  William  Drummond,  who  was  living  in  James  City  county.  Virginia, 
and  was  a  justice  in  1656,  was  governor  of  Albemarle  from  166.1-1667. 
The  editor  of  the  Colonial  Records  of  North  Carolina,  says:  **  He  seems 
to  have  been  a  good  man  and  a  patriot,  more  worthy  of  respect  and  re- 
membrance, perhaps,  than  any  Colonial  governor  ever  in  North  Caro- 
lina." He  was  hung  by  Governor  Berkeley  for  his  participation  in 
Bacon's  rebellion.  He  left  a  wife  and  children,  and  it  is  believed  that  his 
descendants  were  long  residents  of  James  City  county. 


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That  about  twenty  years  since  he,  this  Deponent,  was  att  Coll. 
Millner*s  at  Nanseniond  in  Virginia,  and  that  Col.  Millner  aiid 
he,  this  Deponent,  sat  up  most  of  the  night  discussing  of  the 
line  that  runs  between  Virginia  and  Currituck,  the  bounds  of 
Carolina;  and  he,  the  said  Millner,  told  this  Deponent  that  he 
was  sent  by  Governor  Nicolson  to  settle  the  dividing  line  of  Vir- 
ginia and  the  South  with  Mr.  Haslett,  a  very  good  surveyor; 
and  that  he  sett  his  Instrument  att  Currituck  Inlett  &  cut  exactly 
through  Patrick  Whitens  lower  plantation  on  Knot's  Island,  the 
very  lowest  plantation  of  Patrick  White's.  Afterwards  they 
went  to  Summerton  &  sett  there  and  took  the  gable  end  of 
Odium's  tobacco  house;  those  were  his  words  to  the  best  of  this 
Deponent's  memory,  and  that  then  they  went  to  Wynoke  (now 
called  Nottaway),  so  he  called  it,  &  further  told  this  Deponent 
that  there  he  was  sure  ye  line  run,  and  he,  the  s'd  Millner, 
further  told  this  deponent  they  or  he  had  Miy  pounds  for  their  . 
labour,  &  further  saith  not. 

William  Duckenfield. 

Cap.  &  Jurat  26  die  May,  Anno  Dom.   171 1. 

Cor.  me,  Edward  Hyde,  Prsdt. 

Copia  vera — lest:  John  Lawson. 


Virg'a—ss: 

Henry  Brlggs/  interpreter  of  the  Southerne  Indians,  aged 
forty-nine  years  or  thereabouts,  being  interogated  on  oath, 
made  ye  following  answers: 

Ques.  I.  How  long  have  you  bene  acquainted  with  the  Wy- 
anoke  Indians? 

Answer  i.  At  Least  thirty-six  years  agoe  I  lived  about  a  mile 
from  theyr  new  toune  on  Blackwater,  and  about  a  year  before 
that  I  knew  them  at  theyr  old  Toune  on  the  same  Swamp.  I 
lived  about  three  miles  from  them. 

Quest.  2d.  What  doe  you  kn  *  *  *  Wyanoke  Indians 
leaving  James  River  &  whither  they  went  ? 

Answer  2d.  Haveing  a  verry  serious  discourse  with  Great 
Peter  (the  greatest  man  of  the  Wyanoke  Indians)  about  sixteen 
years  agoe,  I  was  informed  by  him  that  the  Wyanokes  fled  after 
the  massacre  to  Roanoke  River  &  halted  a  while  in  a  great 


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Swamp,  as  I  understood,  above  the  tuscaroora  path,  whither 
Appatchancanough  sent  fourscore  men  to  look  them  &  bring 
them  back,  all  which  Indians  the  Wyanokes  killed  and  fled 
Lower  down  Roanoke  to  a  place  called  by  the  Tuscarooras 
Chanoh  and  by  the  Wyanokes  name  Towanink,  which  was  the  first 
place  they  planted  corne  at  after  they  left  James  river.  After 
they  had  bene  there  a  while  the  Tuscarooras  demanded  the  Rea- 
son of  theyr  comeing  there  upon  theyr  Land;  the  Wyanokes 
answerd  they  were  driven  off*  by  the  English,  &  were  willing  to 
buy  the  Land  of  them,  &  that  accordingly  they  did  purchase 
the  Land  upon  a  great  Creek  which  Run  into  Blackwater,  where 
it  is  a  great  River  below  Meherrin  River,  &  att  betwixt  it  & 
Roanoke  River,  together  with  all  the  Creatures  on  it;  and  from 
Towawink  they  Removed  to  ye  Creek  afore"^,  &  from  thence  to 
Warnkeck  upon  Nottoway  River,  &  that  when  the  Nansemond 
Indians  killed  Geoffrey,  king  of  the  Wyanokes,  they  were 
brought  in  among  the  English,  to  ye  best  of  my  remembrance; 
the  next  place  they  were  *  *  *  up  on  Maherrin  River  &  the 
Potcheack  [?]  Indians  *  *  *  Tuscururo  Indians  sent  [?]  them 
off*  soon  after  *  *  *  settling  there  they  *  *  *  brought 
in  among  the  English,  &  after  that  they  went  to  live  on  Black- 
water  Swamp,  where  Walter  Lesly  now  lives;  and  Peter  alsoe 
said  that  he  was  a  lusty  young  man  when  the  Wyanokes  left 
James  River,  and  farther,  the  Queen  of  Wyanokes  told  me  that 
in  Bacon's  Rebellion  they  went  to  Towawink  &  to  a  place  called 
catch-a  Wesco,  on  this  side  the  same  creek  they  lived  on  before, 
which  they  bought  of  the  Tuscorooras,  and  the  same  creek  they 
lived  on  before,  which  they  bought  of  the  Tuscorooras;  and 
about  seventeen  years  ago  I  saw  a  Queen  of  Tuscarooras  at  the 
Wyanoke  Toune,  which  the  Wyanoke  Indians  told  me  was 
Queen  of  one  of  those  Tounes  of  whom  they  bought  ye  afore"^ 
Land,  &  that  She  brought  a  present  of  Deerskins  (which  I  saw) 
to  ye  Wyanoke  Queen,  &  that  she  perswaded  the  Wyanoke 
Queen  to  Remove  from  Blackwater  to  the  Land  they  had  bought 
from  Tuscarooras  *  *  *  where  the  Indians  speak  to  the 
same  purpose.     *     *     jt- 

Quest.  3.   How  long  have  you  known  Nottaway  River,  and  at 
what  place  ? 


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Ans.  3''.  I  have  known  it  about  28  years,  as  high  as  Sapony 
Creek  &  about  27  vears  at  Wari-Keck,  and  about  20  year  as 
low  as  about  five  miles  from  ye  mouth  of  it  but  never  was  at  the 
mouth  of  it  before  this  day  &  I  never  knew  or  heard  it  called  by 
any  other  name  either  by  Indians  or  English  than  Nottoway  til! 
within  this  twelve  month,  I  have  heard  people  talke  that  some 
people  down  this  way  called  it  Wyanoke  creek. 

Quest.  4.  How  long  have  you  known  the  Nottaway  Indians 
&  where  have  they  lived  ? 

Ans"  ye  4.  About  28  years.  They  lived  then  at  Tonontora, 
upon  the  Bank  of  Nottoway  River  about  24  miles  above  Warie- 
keck,  and  about  a  year  or  2  afterwards  they  removed  to  Assa- 
moosock  Swamp  where  they  lived  till  about  1 2  years  agoe,  & 
then  they  removed  to  ye  place  where  they  now  live  lower  down 
ye  same  swamp. 

Quest.  5.   Did  you  ever  hear  the  Wyanoke  Indians  say  they 
paid  any  acknowledgment  to  ye  Nottaways        *        *        * 
or  that  they  Claimed  any  land  on  Nottoway  River  ? 

Ans.  5.  I  have  severall  times  heard  the  Wyanoke  Indians  & 
particularly  the  Queen,  say  that  they  paid  the  Nottoways  a  great 
deal  of  Roanoke  for  the  priviledge  of  Living  there  &  I  never 
heard  the  Wyanokes  claim  any  Land  as  theyr  owne  on  Nottoway 
River. 

Quest.  6.  How  long  have  you  heard  of  Meherrin  River  &  by 
what  name  has  it  gone  by  ? 

Ans.  6.  About  28  years  I  have  known  it  at  Tawara  &  severall 
other  places  &  I  never  heard  it  called  by  any  other  name  to  this 
dav  than  Maherrin. 

Ques.  7.  Where  have  the  Meherrin  Indians  lived  since  you 
have  known  them  ? 

Ans"  7.  About  34  years  agoe  they  lived  at  Cowinckehoccauk 
as  I  have  been  told  by  ye  Indians,  but  the  first  time  I  was  at 
theyr  Towne,  which  was  about  26  years  agoe,  Tawarra,  about  16 
years  they  have  lived  at  ye  mouth  of  Maherrin  River. 

Quest.  8.  When  did  the  Wyanoke  Indians  remove  from  theyr 
Towne  at  Walter  Lesleys  to  the  Towne  where  they  lived  last  ? 

Ans.  8.  About  36  years  agoe. 

Quest.  9th.  Was  you  informed  by  Peter  or  any  Indian  that 
the  Wyanokes  bought  the  land  Joyning  to  Chawan  River  or  at 


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the  mouth  of  Roanoke  or  at  the  mouth  of  the  Creek  you  men- 
tioned in  your  2d  answer  ? 

Ans.  9.  I  doe  not  remember  they  told  me  that  they  came  to 
ye  mouth  of  Roanoke  or  the  Creek  or  to  Chowan  River  (if  they 
did  I  have  forgote)  till  within  this  fortnight. 

Quest.  10.  Was  you  informed  by  Peter  or  any  other  Indian 
formerly  of  any  particular  bounds  there  were  to  ye    *    *    * 
bought  of  ye  Tuscorooras. 

Ans.  10.  I  was  not  told  any  *  *  *  *  how  high  up  Roa- 
noke River  &  ye  creek  they  went  nor  how  low  downe  but  that 
they  bought  a  great  piece  of  Land  upon  ye  Creek  &  quite  to 
Roanoke  River. 

Quest.  II.  Did  you  understand  by  Peter's  Information  afore- 
mentioned, or  any  other,  that  the  Wyanokes  ever  lived  upon  ye 
navigable  part  of  the  Creek  before  mentioned,  or  claimed  the 
same. 

Ans.  II.  I  never  enquired  after  any  such  thing,  nor  ever 
heard  soe  that  I  remember. 

Quest.  1 2.  Did  you  ever  hear  the  name  of  Wyanoke  River 
or  Creek  ? 

Ans.  12.  I  have  heard  of  such  a  thing,  but  never  knew  where 
it  was. 

Quest.  13.  Was  you  ever  at  ye  Mouth  of  ye  Creek  now  called 
Wycocons  ? 

Ans.  13.    I  never  was  there  till  t'other  day. 

October  ye  3d. 

*    ♦    He     *    *     &  in  presence  of     *     *     * 
Esq..  one  of  ye  Comiss"  appointed  for  settling  the  boundary 
betwixt  Virg*  &  Carolina. 

Phil.  Ludwell,* 
Nath'll  Harrison.* 

[to  be  continued.] 


NOTES. 

*  Robert  Boiling,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Boiling,  of  Allhallows, 
Barkin  Parish,  London,  came  to  Virginia  in  1660,  and  settled  in 
that  part  of  Charles  City  county,  now  Prince  George,  at  a  place 
since  called  *  *  Kippax. "    As  a  merchant  and  planter,  he  acquired 


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a  large  estate.  In  various  county  records  there  are  references 
to  **  Robert  Boiling  and  Company.*'  He  was  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses  for  Charles  City  in  1702,  and  was  colonel  of 
militia.  In  several  grants  of  land  he  is  styled  **  Colonel  Robert 
Boiling.'*  He  married,  first,  in  1675.  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Rolfe,  and  granddaughter  of  Pocahontas.  (For  a  notice  of 
John  and  Thomas  Rolfe,  and  abstract  of  a  deed  for  land  which 
descended  from  Thomas  Rolfe  to  John  Boiling,  see  this  Maga- 
zine, I,  445-447.)  In  a  volume  of  the  *' Purvis  Collection," 
laws  of  Virginia,  now  in  the  State  Library,  which  formerly  be- 
longed to  Robert  Boiling,  there  is  the  following  in  his  hand- 
writing: **  Robt.  Boiling,  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Boiling,  of 
All  Halloway's,  Barking  Parish,  Tower  street,  London,  was 
born  the  26th  day  of  December,  1646,  and  came  to  Virginia 
October  ye  2d,  1660;  and  in  the  year  75  married  Jane,  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Rolfe,  Gent.,  by  whom  he  had  one  son, 
John  Boiling,  born  ye  27th  day  of  Jan'y,  1676.  She  dying,  he 
married  a  second  venture,  Anne,  ye  daughter  of  Majo'  John 
Stith,  in  ye  yeare  1681,  by  whom  he  hath  Robt.  Boiling,  bom 
Jan'  ye  25th,  1682;  ditto,  Stith  Boiling,  borne  March  ye  28th, 
1686;  ditto,  Edward,  borne  ye  first  day  of  October,  1687:  ditto, 
Anne  Boiling,  borne  ye  22d  day  of  July,  1690;  ditto,  Drury 
Boiling,  borne  ye  21st  day  of  June,  1695;  ditto,  Thomas  Boiling,, 
borne  ye  30th  day  of  March,  169^ ;  &  Agnes  Boiling,  borne  ye 
30th  November,  1700,  and  that  God  AUmighty  may  bless  these 
Blessings  shall  be  the  continuall  prayer  of  theire  father,  Robt. 
Boiling."  He  was  buried  at  **Kippax,"  but  the  fragments  of 
his  tomb  have  now  been  removed  to  Petersburg.  The  epitaph 
is  as  follows: 

**Here  lyeth  interred,  in  hope  of  a  joyful  resurrection,  the 
body  of  Robert  Boiling,  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Boiling,  of 
All  Hallows,  Barkin  Parish,  Tower  street,  London.  He  was 
born  20th  December,  1646,  and  came  to  Virginia  October  2, 
1660,  and  departed  this  life  17th  July,  1709,  aged  62  years,  6 
months,  21  days." 

For  account  of  the  Boiling  family,  see  'The  Boiling  Memoirs," 
edited  by  T.  H.  Wynne,  **  Pocahontas  and  Her  Descendants," 
by  Wyndham  Robertson,  and  Slaughter's  **  History  of  Bristol 
Parish."      The  portrait  of  Colonel   Robert  Boiling,   which  is 


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owned  by  a  descendant,  is  now,  with  a  number  of  other  Boiling 
portraits,  deposited  in  the  rooms  of  the  Virginia  Historical 
Society. 

''John  Hardyman  was  a  justice  of  Prince  George  county.  No 
account  of  this  family  has  ever  been  compiled,  but  following  are 
a  few  notes  from  various  sources.  John  Hardiman  was  a  justice 
of  Charles  City  county  1699,  1702,  and  of  Prince  George  17 14. 
He  was  doubtless  the  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  Hardyman,  or 
Hardiman,  who  married,  before  1685,  Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Francis  Eppes,  of  Henrico  county  (see  this  Magazine,  IH,  394). 
He  died  in  17 16,  as  in  July  of  that  year  an  account  with  the 
estate  of  Colonel  John  Hardyman,  deceased,  was  presented  to 
Prince  George  court.  The  following  are  from  the  records  which 
remain  of  Prince  George  Courthouse  (most  have  been  destroyed): 
(i)  Deed,  October  10.  172 1,  from  John  Hardyman  and  Hen- 
rietta Maria,  his  wife,  conveying  a  tract  of  land  and  a  mill,  pur- 
chased by  John  Hardyman,  of  Prince  George,  deceased,  father  of 
said  John  Hardyman;  (2)  Deed,  February  14,  1723,  from  Francis 
Hardyman  and  Sarah,  his  wife,  conveying  a  tract  patented  by 
Robert  Lucy  in  1673,  and  devised  to  the  said  Sarah  Hardyman 
by  her  father,  John  Taylor;  (3)  Deed,  July  9,  1725,  from  John 
Hardyman  and  Henrietta  Maria,  his  wife,  to  Joseph  Poythress, 
conveying  300  acres  called  Flo wer-de- Hundred,  being  part  of  a 
tract  of  land  which  contained  1,000  acres — 150  acres  of  said 
land  was  devised  to  said  Henrietta  Maria  Hardyman  by  her 
father,  John  Taylor,  late  of  Prince  George,  by  his  will,  dated  in 
1707,  and  the  other  150  was  devised  by  said  John  Taylor  to  his 
daughter  Sarah,  wife  of  Francis  Hardyman,  and  by  them  sold 
to  the  said  John  Hardyman ;  (4)  Will  of  Littlebury  Hardyman, 
dated  September  and  proved  November,  1726 — legatees:  mother, 
wife,  brother  William,  brothers  and  sisters. 

The  following  are  from  the  remaining  records  of  Charles  City 
county:  (i)  Deed  from  John  Hardyman,  of  Charles  City  county, 
to  his  daughter,  Elizabeth,  of  the  same,  conveying  two  negroes, 
May  4,  1768;  (2)  Deed,  June  10,  1773,  from  John  Hardyman, 
of  Charles  City  county,  to  Francis  Irby,  conveying  150  acres  in 
Charles  City,  part  of  600  acres  devised  him  in  the  will,  dated 
August  8,   1763,  of  his  father,   Francis  Hardyman,  of  Charles 


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City;  (3)  January  2,  1754,  Wm.  and  Littlebury  Hardyman,  jus- 
tices; (4)  Francis  Hardyman,  justice,  1737;  (5)  August,  1741, 
the  will  of  Francis  Hardyman  presented  for  probate  by  Richard 
Kennon  and  David  Stokes,  two  of  the  executors;  (6)  February, 
1 74 1,  on  the  motion  of  John  Hardyman,  he  is  appointed  guardian 
to  his  brother,  Littlebury  Hardyman,  orphan  of  Francis  Hardy- 
man, deceased;  (7)  March,  1741,  Jane  Hardyman  appointed 
guardian  of  her  children,  James  and  Martha  Hardyman,  orphans 
of  her  deceased  husband,  Francis  Hardyman;  (8)  June,  1741, 
Jane  Hardyman  summoned  to  give  a  farther  account  of  the 
estate  of  John  Cross,  her  former  husband;  (9)  Deed  from  Wm. 
Hardyman  and  Sarah,  his  wife,  to  Hardyman  Irby;  (10)  Mar- 
riage bond,  Littlebury  Hardyman  and  Elizabeth  Eppes,  April  12, 
1784;  (11)  Will  of  Littlebury  Hardyman,  dated  November  ist, 
1789,  proved  June  17,  1790 — legatees:  wife  Elizabeth  and  chil- 
dren (whom  he  does  not  name). 

For  a  notice  of  the  descendants  of  Littlebury  Hardyman  and 
Elizabeth  Eppes,  his  wife,  and  of  some  of  their  nearer  relatives, 
see  JVm,  and  Mary  Quarterly,  V,  272-273. 

*  There  are  on  record  in  Prince  George  a  deed,  dated  April, 
1715,  from  James  Thweatt,  of  Prince  George,  and  Judith  his 
wife;  another,  November,  17 17,  from  same  to  William  Eaton,  of 
Prince  George  county  (the  latter  the  ancestor  of  the  well  known 
North  Carolina  family  of  the  name),  and  a  third,  June,  1724,  to 
Samuel  Jordon,  of  Prince  George.  James  Thweatt  was  appointed 
justice  of  Prince  George  1712,  and  was  sheriff  in  1718  and  1719. 
(This  may  have  been  a  younger  man  than  the  deponent.)  It 
appears  from  the  records  of  Henrico  that  James  Thweatt,  of 
Prince  George,  married,  in  1701,  Judith  Soane;  that  John 
Thweatt  married,  in  or  before  17 16,  EHzabeth,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Soane,  of  Henrico,  and  that Thweatt  married  Hannah, 

daughter  of  Edward  Stanley,  of  Henrico,  and  had,  in  1726,  at 
least  two  children,  Frances  and  Hannah.  A  number  of  entries 
in  regard  to  the  Thweatt  family  will  be  found  in  the  Bristol 
Parish  Vestry  Book  and  Register y  Richmond,  1898,  edited  by 
C.  G.  Chamberlayne. 

*  Colonel  Thomas  Milner,  of  Nansemond  county,  was  clerk  of 
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by  the  Governor  in  the  latter  year.  He  was  however,  elected  a 
member  of  the  House,  and  Speaker  1691-93.  His  daughter 
Mary,  married  Colonel  Miles  Cary,  of  **  Richneck,*' Warwick 
county,  and  died  October  27,  1700.  Her  tomb  bears  the  Milner 
arms. 

*  Edward  Moseley,  long  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of 
North  Carolina,  was  member  of  the  Council  in  1705;  Speaker  of 
the  Assembly  in  1708;  treasurer  until  his  death;  Chief  Justice  in 
1707,  and  Surveyor  General  in  1709.  He  was  a  commissioner 
on  the  part  of  North  Carolina  to  run  the  boundary  line,  and  also 
in  1727-8,  when  the  eastern  portion  was  finally  established.  He 
married  twice;  first.  Ann,  widow  of  Governor  Henderson  Walker 
and  daughter  of  Major  Alexander  Lillington,  who  was  President 
of  the  Council,  and  acting-governor  in  1673,  and  secondly,  Ann. 
sister  of  John  Hagel,  acting-governor  in  1771. 

•Francis  Mallory,  a  justice  of  Prince  George  county;  sheriff 
in  1705;  who  died  in  17 19.  For  a  note  on  him  and  some  of  his 
descendants,  see  this  Magazine  HI,  344-345. 

*  Henry  Briggs,  was  son  of  another  Henry  Briggs,  who  is  as- 
sessed with  two  tithables  in  South wark  Parish,  Surry,  in  1668. 
The  will  of  Henry  Briggs,  Sr.,  was  dated  September  26.  168 1, 
and  proved  in  Surry,  July  6,  1686 ;  legatees :  sons  Henry, 
Charles,  George  and  Samuel,  son-in-law  Thos.  Blunt,  daughter 
Marie  Briggs.  and  wife  Margerie.  These  sons  were  probably 
ancestors  of  the  family  of  the  name  in  South  Side,  Virginia. 

•Philip  Ludwell,  of  *  *  Greenspring, "  James  City  county,  Vir- 
ginia, son  of  Philip  Ludwell,  who  was  so  long  a  prominent 
figure  in  the  colony,  and  was  governor  of  North  Carolina,  was 
born  at  **  Carter's  Creek,*'  Gloucester  county,  February  4,  1672, 
and  died  at  *' Greenspring,''  January  11,  1726-7.  He  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Council  May  14,  1702,  and  in  1709,  with  his 
brother-in-law  Nathaniel  Harrison,  was  a  commissioner  on  the 
part  of  Virginia  to  run  the  boundary  line  with  North  Carolina. 
In  171 1  he  was  appointed  Auditor-General,  but  in  the  Spring  of 
1 7 16,  owing  to  a  quarrel  with  Governor  Spotswood,  he  was  sus- 
pended from  the  office.  He  was  also  rector  of  William  and  Mary 
College  17 16,  &c.,  and  County  Lieutenant  of  James  City  and 
Isle  of  Wight  17 15,  &c.       He   married,  November    11,  1697, 


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Hannah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  of  **  Wakefield,"  Surry, 
and  had  one  son  Philip,  and  several  daughters,  one  of  whom, 
Hannah,  was  wife  of  Honorable  Thomas  Lee,  and  mother  of 
Richard  Henry  and  Francis  Lightfoot  Lee. 

•Nathaniel  Harrison,  of  "  Wakefield,"  Surry,  and  **  Bran- 
don." Prince  George  county,  son  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Harrison, 
of  the  former  place  (for  a  note  in  regard  to  him,  see  January, 
1900,  number  of  this  Magazine),  was  appointed  a  justice  of  Surry 
in  1698,  and  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  that 
county  from  1 699-1 706,  inclusive.  He  was  appointed  to  the 
Council  in  1713,  county  lieutenant  of  Surry  and  Prince  George 
in  1715,  and  was  Auditor- General  in  1724,  and  perhaps  earlier. 

His  tomb,  near  *'  Wakefield,"  bears  the  following  inscription: 
'*  Here  lieth  the  body  of  the  Honorable  Nathaniel  Harrison, 
Esq.,  son  of  the  Honorable  Benjamin  Harrison,  Esq.  He  was 
born  in  this  parish  the  8th  day  of  August,  1677.  Departed  this 
life  the  30th  day  of  November,  1727." 

He  purchased  **  Brandon"  (about  7,000  acres)  and  '*  Mer- 
chant's Hope"  (about  1,900  acres),  both  in  Prince  George, 
from  the  heirs  of  the  Quineys  and  Sadlers,  merchants,  of  Lon- 
don, who  had  been  for  nearly  a  hundred  years  the  non-resident 
owners  (see  this  Magazine,  IV,  315-316  ^ 

The  will  of  Nathaniel  Harrison  was  dated  December  15,  1726, 
and  proved  in  Surry,  February  21,  1727;  legatees:  wife  Mary, 
sons  Nathaniel  and  Benjamin,  daughter  Hannah  Churchill  and 
other  daughters  whom  he  does  not  name.  His  sons,  Nathaniel 
and  Benjamin  to  be  kept  constantly  at  school  until  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years. 

The  inventory  of  Nathaniel  Harrison,  Esq.,  recorded  in  Surry 
in  1728,  shows  a  very  large  estate;  of  negroes,  there  were  47 
**at  home,"  2  at  Cockerhams,  6  at  Richneck,  i  at  the  mill,  7 
at  Joseph's  Swamp,  7  at  Nottoway  Quarter,  8  at  Three  Creeks 
Mill  Quarter,  2  at  New  Mill,  and  62  elsewhere,  and  also  4  white 
servants.  There  is  much  china,  glass  and  silver,  and  **  In  the 
study,  books  of  various  sorts  and  sizes. '  * 

The  will  of  his  widow,  Mary  Harrison,  was  dated  February 
25,  and  proved  in  Surry,  March  21,  1732;  legatees:  sons  Na- 
thaniel and  Benjamin;  daughters  Hannah  Churchill,  Elizabeth 
Cargill,  Sarah  Brad  by  and  Ann  and  Mary  Harrison.     Armstead 


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Churchill,  John  CargiU,  James  Bradby,  and  Nathaniel  and  Ben- 
jamin Harrison,  executors. 

For  genealogies  of  the  Harrison  family,  see  Keith's  Ancestry 
of  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  the  Richmond  Critic • 


WILL  OF  JOSIAS  MACKIE, 

Presbyterian  Minister,  Norfolk  and  Princess  Anne 
Counties,  1716. 


[Communicated  and  annotated  by  Edward  VV.  James.] 


In  the  Name  of  God,  amen,  the  7th  Day  of  November,  anno 
Dom.  1716.  I,  Josias  Mackie,  of  Norfolk  County,  Minister, 
being  Sick  &  weak  in  body,  butt  of  good  and  perfect  memory, 
thanks  be  to  allmighty  god,  &  Calling  to  remembrance  the  un- 
certainty of  this  Life,  Doe  make,  Constitute  and  Declare  this 
my  Last  will  &  Testament  in  manner  and  forme  following,  revok- 
ing and  annulling  by  These  presents  all  &  Everj'  will  and  wills 
heretofore  by  me  made,  &  this  onely  to  be  Taken  for  my  Last 
will  and  Testament;  and  first,  being  hartily  Sorry  for  my  Sins 
past,  most  humbly  Desireing  forgiveness  of  the  Same.  I  Commit 
my  Soul  to  almighty  god,  trusting  to  receive  full  pardon  and 
free  Justification  through  the  merritts  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  my 
body  to  be  buried  in  Decent  and  Christian  manner  at  the  Discre- 
tion of  my  Executr  hereafter  named ;  and  as  to  the  Settling  of 
Such  Temporal!  Elstate  as  it  has  pleased  god  to  bestow  on  me, 
I  Doe  Order,  give,  Dispose  the  Same  in  manner  &  forme 
following: 

Impr.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  Elisabeth  Wishard  and  John 
Wishard,  Sonn  &  Daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Wishard,  tenn 
pounds  in  money,  to  be  Equally  Devided  between  them,  to  be 
Delivered  to  them  Immediately  after  my  Decease. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  William  and  Mary  Johnson,* 
Children  of  Jacob  Johnson,  Deceased,  and  Margaritt,  Ten  pounds 
in  money,  to  be  Equally  Devided  between  them  when  they 
Come  of  age  or  married. 


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Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  those  four  persons  above 
named  (viz.)  Elisabeth  &  John  Wishard,  William  and  Mary 
Johnson,  all  my  new  goods,  both  woolling  &  Lining  (Except 
what  I  shall  here  after  Except),  to  be  Equally  Devided  between 
them,  the  Said  Wishard  to  have  there  part  Immediately  after 
my  Decease,  and  the  Said  Johnson  when  they  Come  of  age  or 
married. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  the  Severall  Children  now 
liveing  of  my  three  Sisters,  Mary,  Margarett  &  Rebecca.  Daugh- 
ters of  Mr.  Patrick  Mackie,  Some  time  of  St.  Johnstone,  in  the 
county  of  Donigall,  of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  all  the  remain- 
ing part  of  my  money  which  is  in  Ready  Cash  in  Virginia,  to  be 
Equally  Divided  between  them,  which  I  Desire  may  be  trans- 
mitted home  by  my  Execrs  hereafter  named,  in  bills  of  Exchange 
upon  my  Cost  &  Charges,  by  them  Direct  to  Such  person  or 
persons,  as  they  think  Best,  in  the  City  of  London,  and  from 
thence  to  Mr.  John  Harvey,  of  London,  Derry  Mercht.,  and  by 
him  transmited  to  the  Children  of  the  persons  above  named; 
Alsoe  I  give  to  the  Severall  Children  of  the  said  Mary,  Margaret 
&  Rebecca,  fourteen  pounds,  ffour  Shillings  &  Eight  pence 
Sterling,  Due  from  mr.  William  Squire  &  Petter  Hall,  Merchants 
in  Liver  Poole;  alsoe  all  the  money  Due  to  me  by  a  just  account 
from  mr.  William  Bowden,  merchant  in  London;  all  which  Sums 
I  give  to  the  Said  Children  of  my  aforesaid  Sisters  that  Shall 
now  be  Liveing,  to  be  Equally  Devided  between  them,  he  farely 
promiseing  &  has  promised  to  Sattisfie  me  &  all  other  Credittors 
to  the  full. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  to  John  Sherly,  Senr.,  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  Land  Lying  &  being  in  princess  Ann 
County  near  the  back  Bay,  being  the  Remainder  of  a  tract  of 
Land  Purchased  of  Capt.  ffrancis  Morse),  to  him  &  his  heirs  for 
Ever. 

It.  I  Give  my  More  Schoolastick  Books  of  the  Learned  Lan- 
guages as  Lattin;  Greek  and  Hebrew  to  be  Equally  Divided 
Between  Mr.  Henry,  mr.  Hampton  &  mr.  Mackness,  non-con- 
forming ministers  at  Poatomoake  or  thereabouts. 

It.  I  will  and  ordaine  that  my  Exers  well  and  truely  observe 
the  paper  of  Directions  by  me  Left  under  my  owne  hand,  Relate- 
ing  to  the  Disposall  of  the  remainder  of  my  Books  not  before 


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Disposed  of,  as  alsoe  Concerning  Lessor  Legacys  and  Debts, 
and  that  it  be  Duely  performed. 

I.  I  give  &  bequeath  unto  John  Sharley,  Sen.,  all  Such  Sums 
as  he  at  ye  time  of  my  Death  Stands  to  me  Indebted  by  bill  & 
acct. ,  &  that  he  Be  hereby  Discharged  from  ye  same. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  Capt.  Horatio  Woodhouse. 
two  mares  out  of  my  Stock  at  the  Sea  Side. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Thomas  Butt  &  Elizabetli 
Butt,  Children  of  Mr.  Rich'd  Butt,  two  mares,  She  to  have  the 
Choice  of  all  I  have. 

Item.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Mary  Cocke,  Daughter  of 
Christopher  Cocke,  one  young  mare. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  Henry  Butt,  Son  of  Mr. 
Richard  Butt,  one  young  mare. 

Item.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  Thomas  Butt,  Son  of  Thomas 
Butt,  Dec*d,  two  young  mares,  &  alsoe  my  Riding  horse.  Bri- 
dle &  Sadie,  alsoe  one  Silk  Damask  vest. 

Item.  My  will  &  Desire  is  and  it  is  my  true  interest  and 
meaning  of  this  my  will  y*  that  if  there  should  not  be  mares  or 
horses  Eno.  of  the  bread  of  that  mare  I  had  from  Mr.  Lewis 
Conner  to  Comply  with  the  aforegoing  Divers  Legacys,  that  in 
that  Case  my  Execr  Dispose  of  them  to  the  Severall  Legatees 
as  farr  as  they  will  goe,  &  that  the  other  Legacys  be  void. 

It.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  mr.  Richard  Butt,  Sen.,  my 
Greate  Riding  Coate  with  Twenty  yards  of  Brown  Lining  that 
is  in  the  Chest  of  Goods. 

It.  I  Give  and  bequeath  unto  Mrs.  Martha  Thruston,  a  piece 
of  black  flowerd  Damask,  being  the  Same  She  fformerly  gave 
me. 

It.  My  Will  &  Desire  is  that  if  any  Debt  or  Debts  Should 
justly  appear  To  be  Due  and  oweing  to  any  person  whatsoever, 
that  they  be  Sattisfied  by  My  Execrs,  hereafter  named,  out  of 
what  Tobaco  or  money,  which  mr.  Richard  Butt  is  requested  to 
Direct  &  assist  them  in,  and  for  his  trouble  of  my  English  good 
Books;  and  that  if  any  person  Shall,  after  my  Decease,  make 
any  Just  Claim  to  any  Book  or  Books,  my  will  &  Desire  is  that 
They  have  them  Delivered  to  Them  by  my  Execrs  or  whom 
they  shall  order,  And  I  Doe  ffurther  Request  &  Order  &  ap- 
point, my  friends  Cor"  Edward  Moseley  and  Mrs.  Martha  Thrus- 


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ton,  to  be  my  Execrs  in  trust,  to  see  this  my  Last  will  and 
Testament  well  &  Truely  performed,  According  to  the  Intent, 
purport  &  true  meaning  thereof. 

In  Witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  Set  my  hand  and  Seal 
the  day  &  year  first  above  written. 

JosiAS  Mackie,  &  Seal. 

Signed,  Sealed  &  Delivered 
In  the  presence  of  Uss:  Proved  by  the  oaths  of: 

Signum. 
Sarah  S.  Butt,  Thomas  Butt,  Sen',  & 

Natha"  Butt,  Thos.  Butt,  Junr.,  in 

Thos.  Butt,  open  Court,  this  i6th  Day  of 

Thos.  Butt,  Junr.  Novr.,  1716,  &  ordered  to  be 

Committed  to  Record. 
Test:        Thos.  Butt,  CI.  Cur. 


NOTES. 

*  William  and  Mary  Johnson  were  the  children  of  Jacob  John- 
son, Jr..  son  of  Jacob  Johnson  the  elder,  who  was  born  about 
the  year  1639,  probably  in  Holland,  patented  land  in  Virginia  in 
1673,  was  naturalized  in  1679.  and  was  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses  in  1692,  and  died  in  17 10.  His  first  wife  was  Mary 
Ashall,  daughter  of  George  Ashall  who  died  about  1673,  his 
second  wife  was  a  Mrs.  Kempe.  He  had  a  Presbyterian  church 
(see  certificate  printed  below)  on  his  land,  and  the  minister  lived 
with  him  as  the  following  will  show :  *  *  I  give  and  bequeath  to 
Mr.  Josiah  Mackie  my  best  bed  I  have  in  the  house  &  furniture 
thereunto  belonging  as  it  stands,  being  ye  same  y*  he  now  lyeth 
in  &  two  Leather  chairs,  one  plank  chair  &  (notwithstanding 
what  is  before  given),  my  will  is  &  it  is  my  will  that  he  have  ye 
labor  &  service  of  my  negro  woman  Maria  during  his  life,  also 
ye  room  where  he  now  resides  with  full  &  free  egress  &  regress 
to  ye  same  &  pasturage  for  his  horse  as  long  as  he  sees  fit  to 
make  use  of  it/'  He  appears  in  the  records  as  a  brick  burner, 
brick  layer  and  house  plasterer,  and  he  also  practiced  law.  Jacob 
Johnson.  Jr.,  his  son  by  his  first  wife,  married  Margaret  Langley, 
daughter  of  Captain  William  Langley,  of  Norfolk  county,  and 
Mary,  their  daughter,  during  or  before  the  year  1722,  married 


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James  Nimmo,  and  another  daughter,  Jacomine,  married  John 
Hunter. 

'*  These  are  tocertifie  his  Maj^***  Justices  of  the  peace  for  Prin- 
cess Anne  county  that  instead  of  a  house  at  Henry  Holmes,  last 
yeare  nominated  but  never  made  use  of,  there  is  a  house  appointed 
as  a  place  of  meeting  for  Religious  Worship  upon  the  Land  be- 
longing to  M'  Jacob  Johnson  at  Wolves  neck  in  Little  Creek 
precincts,  and  likewise  another  place  appointed  for  same  use  & 
purpose  of  Religious  Worship  upon  the  land  belonging  to  Mr. 
Thomas  Scott  in  Eastern  branch,  which  therefore  I  the  subscriber 
desire  may  be  Recorded  as  given  under  my  hand  this  9th  May, 
1700.  J.  Mackie  Pr' sen  ted  and  publiquely  read  in  open  Court 
held  9th  May  1700,  and  ordered  to  be  Recorded. 

••Test:  Pa.  Angus,  CI.  Cur.'' 

'Appraisement  of  Rev.  Mr.  Josias  Mackie,  made  June  2nd, 
1718,  by  Jno.  Kemp,  George  Kemp  and  Amos  Moseley: 


A  cloak  &  a  morning  gown,  both  old, 
2  old  vests  &  a  p'  new  breeches, 
I  new  double  bresf*  cloath  coat  lin'd,  . 
I  old  clo.  coat  5s:  I  old  loon  Silk  morning  gown 
IDS, 

1  old  loon  great  coat  4s:  one  new  caster  hat  8s., 

2  old  hats  7  I  6:  one  old  D**  is.,  .         .         .         . 

1  p'old  britches  2  |  6:  5)^  y^^'ozenbriggsat  10 p.  y*, 
5  yds.  cull*  fustion  at  I2d.   p.  y*,  y/2  y*"  course 

&  white  D*  1 2d.  p., 

4  y*'  Scotch  cloath  2od.  p:  3^  yds.  garlix  at  2S., 
Two  Silk  neck  cloths  at  2  p., 

3  old  raizers,  i  old  knife  &  an  inkhorn, 
One  p'  Stript  linin  britches  not  made  up, 

2  p'  ordinary  Shews  2s:  a  p'  old  Sheets  course  , 

Course  7  |  6, 

2  shirts  &  2  while  handkerchiefs. 

2  old  muslin  neckcloths  I2d.  p.,  . 

4  caps,  I  cotton  handkerchief,  i  pillo  bear. 

I  p'  flan'  britches,  i  dimity  >^aste,  an  old  wallet, 
I  bunch  cul**  tape, 


s. 
12 
16 


15 
12 

8 

7 

8 

4 
2 

3 

7 

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lo  Twists  white  thread  is:  a  p'cell  old  dear  skins, 

A  parcell  of  old  sorry  cloaths  worth  little,  . 

A  Silver  Tooth  picker,  i5d. ;  13  1.  Sug'  in  a  gord 

at  5d.  p., 

2%  Small  Shot,  3d. ;  an  old  Sorry  chest  w*"  old 

Trifles, 


Goods  unto  Wm.  &  mary  Johnson,  children  of  Jacob  J*'son, 
jun',  dec*,  &  margret  his  wife: 

5%  y^  course  bed  Tick  at  1 2d.  p., 


4 

2 

6 

6 

8 

3 

Ya 

9 

10 

5% 

5 

3^  y*'  finer  I>*  at  lad. ;  9  y*'  brow  linin,  I2d.  p.,  12 

1%  y**  o^  dowlas  or  Lancast'  linin,  i8d.  p.,  10 

16^  y*'  Dowlas  at  i8d.  p. ;  i^  y**  course,            .  i     5 

1%  y*' course  Sheeting  linin  i2d.  p.,            .         .  7 

1  ^  y**  hoU*  at  3  I  6  p. ;  6  y**"  printed  linin  i2d.  p.,  10 
%  y**  muslin  3s.;  i^  y*  plain  kenting  @  2  p.,  .  6 
A}i  y**'  Scotch  cloth  @  2od.  p.,             ...  7 

2  y**  shift  fustion  at  2s.  p. ;  2  y**'  plain  D*  at  2s.  p. ,  8 
2^  y**  bro*  cloath  moath  eaten,  at,      .         .         .  9 

3  y**'  D*  @  los.  p. ;  4^  y*'  flanell  at  2  |  6  p.,  2     i 

3  y**  black  mill'd  shergeat  3s.  p.,  .  9 
4^  yards  black  shaloone  i2d.  p.,         .         .         .  4 

4  y**  cours  stuff  at  lod.  p. ;  2)4  y**'  bro**  clo.  at  10  p. ,  12 
2%  y*'  Kersey  2  |  6  &  2;^^  y*'  miird  Drug*  2s.,  .  4 
6  hanks  mohair  at  4d.,         .....  2 

Cull*  thread  &  thread  buttons 2 

A  p'cell  of  ffine  white  thread,      .         .         •         .  i 


6 

9 

8>. 

Ah 

3 

4 


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THE  VIRGINIA  CENSUS,  1624-25. 


["When  Captain  John  Harvey  left  Virginia  in  February  or 
March,  1625.  he  carried  with  him  reports  from  the  plantations, 
and  replies  to  sundry  questions,  which  give  a  fairly  approximate 
idea  as  to  the  condition  of  the  Colony.'*  (Brown's  First  Re- 
public, 610.) 

The  questions  were  as  to  how  many  plantations  there  were, 
public  and  private;  the  population,  horses,  cattle,  &c.,  corn,  &c.  ; 
fortifications,  arms,  &c.,  boats,  &c. 

A  very  full  summary  of  this  census  was  published  in  the  First 
Republic,  61 1-627.  The  names  contained  were  published  in  Hot- 
ten' s  Emigrants,  201-265. 

Though,  as  stated,  the  census  has  been  given  in  another  form, 
its  importance  makes  it  fully  worth  printing  again  in  the  tabu- 
lated form  presented  here. 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  A.  C.  Quisenberry,  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  for  the  preparation  of  this  tabulated  copy  of  the  census, 
which  he  presented  to  the  Society. 

The  *'  Notes,'*  immediately  following,  are  referred  to  by  small 
letters  in  the  table.  ] 


NOTES. 
a  The  negro  population  was  distributed  as  follows  : 

Males.  Females.  Total. 

Pierseys  Hundred, 4  3  7 

James  Citty, 3  6  9 

Neck  of  land  near  James  Citty,      .        .        -        .        i  o  i 

Wariscoyack, 1  i  2 

Elizabeth  Citty, 2  i  3 

Eliz.  Citty  beyond  Hampton  River,       -        -        -        i  o  i 

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b  At  Pierseys  Hundred,  4  tobacco  houses  and  i  windmill.  At  James 
Citty,  I  church,  4  tobacco  houses,  and  "  i  large  court  of  Guard.'*  [A 
prison  ?] 

c  Includes  Archers  Hope,  Burrows  Hill,  Treasurers  Plantation,  Paces, 
Paines,  Smith's,  Blaney's  &  Matthews'  Plantations,  etc. 

£/*'And  other  cabbens."  Also,  at  the  Treasurer's  Plantation,  *' i 
silkworm  house  and  garden,  and  a  vineyard  of  2  acres." 

e  "The  Company's  Land." 

/i  bushel  of  "English  meale"  at  West  &  Sherley  Hundred,  **&  i 
hhd.  of  English  wheate." 

g  Including  '*  i  barque  of  40  tons,  i  shallop  of  4  tons,  and  1  skiffe." 

h  Including  '*  i  shallop." 

At  James  Citty  there  was  **  50  lbs  biskett,"  *•  2  hhds.  of  oyle,"  and 
butter  and  cheese  in  quantities  not  stated,  and  "  2  flitches  of  bacon." 

At  the  **  Neck-of-Land  neare  Jamestown  "  there  were  '*  2  chambers," 
apparently  a  kind  of  ordnance. 

At  Martins  Hundred  there  was  *'  10  lbs.  of  Match,"  and  at  "Eliza- 
beth Citty  beyond  Hampton  River"  there  was  "4  Roules  of  Mach," 
and  "  I  Targett." 


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SETTLEMENT. 


Date  of 
Muster. 


I  Population  a 
!      White. 


Buildings,  b 


The  ColIedKC  Land |  23  Jan.,  1624  '  20  '    2 

Keck  of  Land  in  Charles  Cittie'  24  Jan.,  1624     25  ' 


West  &  Sherley  hundred 22  Jan.,  1624     44 

Jordans  Jorney 121  Jan.,  1624 

Chaplain  Choice  &Trueloves  j  21  Jan.,  1624 
Co,. ! 


Pasheayghs . 
the  Maine.. . 


}!  30  Jan., 
I  30  Jan., 


1624 
1624 


19 

16 

36     19 


22  I    8 

44  I  16 

60  i  17 

55  I  22 

I 
49     " 

«|  . 

36  I    3 


Provisions. 


I    i 

o 


s    s 

1.     o. 


•si  • 
o  la 


. '    62     1,800 

•'  76*     450 

13U     i»350 
.;  112J    1,250 

., ... 

•'  93  ,  1.600 
.  55  I  2,000 
'    37i 


JamesCittie 24  Jan.,  1624    122  t  53  |  175  1  33  |    3  !•••!. ••   211     24,880 


Elizabeth     City,     beyond  ;  Not  given. 

Hampton  e  River 1 

The  Eastern  Shore  over  the     Not  given.     1  44  1    7 

Baye 


I. .J. 


Neck  of  Land  neare  James  '  4  Feb.,  1624   '126  I  19     145  I  31      6d     4 

Cittyc I  '        ' 

Hog  Island '  Not  given.       40     13 

Martin's  Hundred 4  Feb.,  1624      20       7 

Malbury  Island ,  25  Jan.,  1624  '  25  {    51    30 

Wariscoyack I  7  Feb.,  1624   '    8    .  - . 

i        t 
Basses  Choyse Not  given.        16       3 

Newportes  Newes Not  given.     |  20  t  ■ .  • 

Elizabeth  Citty Not  given.     I198  1  59 

78     20 


^1 r 

7 1... 


.1....1. 


Total 

Negroes 

Total  population. 


940  269 


|952  J280  J 1232 


257  69 

98  20 

! 

51  t  19 


295  I  4,050 
33  

29i  4»300 
51  , 

*°i 

34t   900 

30   2,000 
I 
19  j  531  I  10,550 

5  '  193  t  3»a50 


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20 


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10 


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1209 
23 


278 


26  2288i  58,380  I  I26i 


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Live  Stock. 

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2 

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Poultry. 

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263 

217 

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39 
84 
52 
10 
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248 
507 
704 
340 
265 

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8   a  7  16  ;  3  •••• 

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6  j  ...,  7  ••••I  70  j  35  80  j  16 

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26  3«  '  19  I  13 

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VIRGINIA  IN  1629  AND  1630. 


[Abstracts  by  VV.  N.  Sainsbury  and  Copies  in  McDonald  Papcfs,*  Vir- 
ginia State  Library,  from  the  British  Public  Record  Office.] 


Governors  Pott  and  Harvey. 

[The  years  1629  and  1630  embraced  the  conclusion  of  the 
administration  of  Governor  John  Pott  and  the  commencement 
of  that  of  Governor  Harvey.  Dr.  John  Pott,  whom  the  Council 
elected  Governor  on  March  5,  1628,  in  the  place  of  Francis 
West,  who  was  going  to.  England,  had  been  appointed,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1 62 1,  **  Physician  to  the  Company,**  and  member  of  the 
Virginia  Council.  He  was  a  Master  of  Arts  and  **  well  practiced 
in  Chirurgerie  and  Physique,*'  and  had  come  to  Virginia  in 
1620  with  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  who  afterwards  so  bravely  made  a 
voyage  across  the  Atlantic  for  his  sake.  Dr.  Pott  appears  to 
have  been  a  jovial,  easy-going  man,  fond  of  company  and  liquor. 
He  had  a  plantation  called  Harrop,  near  the  present  Williams- 
burg. Henitig  (I,  144-145)  gives  an  extract  from  the  old  records 
containing  an  account  of  his  conviction  for  cattle-stealing.  As  the 
documents  here  printed  show,  he  was  pardoned  by  order  from 
England. 

During  this  period  two  sessions  of  Assembly  were  held,  one 
beginning  October  16,  1629,  and  the  other  March  24,  1629-30. 
The  proceedings  of  these  Assemblies  are  given  in  Hening,  I, 
137-153. 


*The  McDonald  Papers  in  the  Virginia  State  Library  are  copies 
(bound  in  six  volumes)  made  from  the  records  in  the  English  State 
Paper  Office,  the  predecessor  of  the  present  Public  Record  Office,  under 
the  supervision  of  Colonel  Angus  McDonald,  of  Virginia.  Colonel  Mc- 
Donald was  sent  to  England  by  the  State  to  obtain  copies  of  records 
which  might  be  useful  in  the  boundary  line  contest  with  Maryland. 
Fortunately,  he,  like  Mr.  De  Jamette,  who  was  sent  to  England  for  the 
same  purpose,  construed  his  commission  very  liberally,  and  had  many 
documents  copied  which  are  of  much  interest  historically,  but  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  boundary  line. 


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VIRGINIA  IN  1629  AND  163O.  369 

Lord  Baltimore's  visit,  which  is  referred  to  in  several  of  the 
papers  here  printed,  seems  to  have  excited  strong  feeling  among 
the  ultra  Protestant  Virginians.  In  the  old  records  is  found  this 
entry:  *' March  25th,  1630.  Thps.  Tindall  to  be  pilloried  two 
hours  for  giving* my  Lord  Baltimore  the  lie  and  threatening  to 
knock  him  down."  A  summary  of  the  history  of  the  Colony 
in  1629-30  will  be  found  in  Campbell's  History  of  Virginia, 
182-185,  and  in  Fiske's  Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors, 
252-253.] 


Propositions  Touching  Virginia  (without  date).      [1629.] 

(Copy.) 

Endorsed:  **Captaine  Harvey,*  his  propositions  touching 
Virginia." 

1.  That  considering  the  great  increase  of  the  Collonie,  and 
the  want  of  able  and  sufficient  preachers,  supply  bee  made  of 
six  grave  and  conformable  ministers,  to  be  sent  thither  with  such 
allowance  for  their  transportacon,  and  to  furnish  them  with 
bookes,  that  thereby  the  people  may  bee  instructed  in  matters 
of  their  salvacon,  and  to  yield  due  obedience  to  his  Ma**'  and  his 
government. 

2.  That  his  Ma""  wilbe  pleased  gratiously  to  extend  his  fa- 
vour to  ye  planters,  for  a  new  confirmation  of  their  lands  and 
goods  by  charter  under  the  great  scale  of  England,  and  therein 
to  authorize  ye  Lords  to  consider  what  is  fitt  to  be  done  for  ye 
ratefying  of  ye  privilidges  formerly  granted,  and  holding  of  a 
general  assembly,  to  be  called  by  ye  Governor  upon  necessary 
occasions,  therein  to  propound  laws  &  orders  for  the  good  gov- 
ernment of  ye  people,  and  for  that  it  is  most  reasonable  that  his 
ma'*"  subjects  should  be  governed  only  by  such  laws  as  shall 
have  their  originall  from  his  ma*'*"  royall  approbacon,  it  be  there- 
fore so  ordered  that  those  lawes,  so  there  made,  only  stand  as 
propositions  until  his  ma'*®  shalbe  pleased,  under  his  great  scale" 


*  Captain,  afterwards  Sir  John  Harvey,  Governor  of  Virginia  1630  to 
April,  1635,  when  he  was  deposed  by  the  people  and  sent  to  England. 
He  was  again  made  Governor,  arriving  in  Virginia  January,  1636-7,  and 
held  the  office  until  the  fall  of  1639.     See  a  note  on  him.  Vol.  I,  p.  87. 


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or  privy  seale,  or  by  ye  Lords  of  his  noble  privy  coancell  to 
ratify  the  same. 

3.  That  because,  as  yett,  no  course  hath  bin  taken  for  anie 
fortificacons,  to  preserve  ye  said  CoUonie  of  Vii^nia,  but  that 
they  lye  open  and  in  danger  of  forraine  invasion,  these  things 
may  bee  taken  into  due  consideracon  that  a  forte  bee  presentiy 
erected  att  Poynt  Comfort,  being  the  first  Entrance  or  Mouth  of 
the  river,  called  James  river,  where  no  shipp  can  passe  but  w** 
in  minion  shott 

4.  For  the  better  and  more  safe  effecting  &  securing  of  this 
worke  &  Collonie,  that  his  Ma^  would  gratiously  be  pleased  to 
send  over  50'**  men,  compleately  furnished  w**  victuall,  armes 
and  apparell  for  a  year,  supplying  them  in  like  manner,  w**  50"* 
men  yearely,  for  the  space  of  3  years  to  come,  that  in  case  of  sick- 
ness or  death  the  worke  be  neither  left  unperfected  nor  unmanned 
the  charge  whereof  (after  ye  said  3  yeares)  will  be  defrayed  by 
the  proceeds  of  their  owne  labours  for  the  greater  ease  of  his 
Ma"*  charge.  There  is  notice  taken  of  abt.  20  pieces  of  ord- 
nance already  in  ye  country,  belonging  to  ye  publique,  consisting 
of  whole  culverin,  demy  culverin  &  sacres,  which  w***  an  addi- 
tion of  ID  whole  culverins  and  10  demy  culverins,  will  furnish 
this  &  another  forte  to  be  erected  higher  up  the  same  river, 
where  it  shall  be  found  most  convenient  for  the  countries  safety. 

5.  And  for  a  magazine  of  munition  for  ye  said  forts  and  pub- 
lique services,  it  will  be  needfull  to  send  over  (for  the  present), 
40***  barrells  of  powder,  supplying  ye  same  w'"  twenty  barrells 
yearely,  together  with  a  proportionable  quantity  of  carriages, 
shott  &  other  munition,  and  for  ye  perfecting  of  the  said  two 
forts  having  to  be  erected  upon  loose  &  sandy  grounds,  there 
can  be  no  lesse  than  thirty  tonnes  of  iron  to  be  thereupon  ex- 
pended, besides  divers  sorts  of  tools  to  be  carryed  from  hence. 

6.  And  because  ye  meanes  of  50***  men*s  labor  where"'*"  ye 
Governors  of  Virginia  have  heretofore  subsisted  is  now  wholly 
taken  away.  It  is  now  humbly  desired  that  his  ma'*'  would  be 
pleased  to  assyn  such  a  competent  sume  of  money  to  ye  (Governor 
for  ye  transportation  of  himselfe  and  his  retinue  as  by  yo'  Lords 
shall  be  thought  convenient,  and  for  his  future  maintenance  that 
he  may  be  allowed  the  custome  &  import  of  40'*"  thpusand 
weight  of  tobacco,  to  be  yearlie  imported  from  thence  upon  his 
own  account. 


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7.  That  the  citty  of  London  bee  invited  to  send  over  a  hun- 
dred poore  boys  and  girls  to  Virginia,  att  the  general  charge  of 
the  city,  which  (by  his  ma*ties  gratious  letters  directed  to  the 
Lord  Maior  &  Court  of  Aldermen)  may  be  effected,  Seeing 
they  have  don  as'  much  at  the  request  of  the  late  Company. 

{State  Paper  Office,  Colonial,  No.  5. ) 

Certaine  Answeares  to  Capt.   Harveve's   Proposicons 

Touching  Virginia. 

(Copy.) 

1.  Such  voluntary  ministers  may  goe  over  as  will  transport 
themselves  at  their  owne  charge  and  have  their  maintenance 
there  from  the  plantacon. 

2.  The  setting  of  Lands  &  goods  &  privileges  is  to  be  done 
here,  and  may  be  done  by  calling  in  the  former  books  and  char- 
ters at  a  convenient  tyme.  But  the  governor  may  be  authorized 
shortly  after  his  first  coming  into  Virginia  to  call  a  grand  assembly, 
and  there  to  set  downe  an  establishm'  of  the  Government,  and 
ordaine  lawes  &  orders  for  the  good  thereof,  and  those  to  send 
hither  to  receive  allowance,  and  such  as  shall  be  soe  allowed  to 
be  returned  thither  under  the  great  scale  and  put  in  execucon, 
the  same  to  be  temporary  &  changeable  at  his  ma*'**  pleasure, 
signified  under  the  like  great  scale. 

3.  4  &  5.  That  the  Governor,  by  the  advice  of  the  councill  & 
such  others  as  he  shall  call  unto  him  upon  the  place,  shall  survey 
&  allott  out  a  fitt  place  for  a  fort,  &  shall  send  over  a  module 
thereof,  and  the  quantity  &  what  number  of  souldiers,  municon 
&  other  necessaries  shall  be  requisite,  with  an  estimate  of  the 
charge  thereof,  and  what  provisions  for  the  same  may  be  had 
there,  and  what  must  be  sent  from  hence.  And  touching  allow- 
ance of  powder,  that  10  barrells  be  sent  for  the  present,  and  an 
accompt  to  be  taken  of  the  Executors  of  the  last  governor  of  12 
barrells  transported  with  him  at  his  going  over,  &  10  barrells 
more  sent  the  last  yeare. 

6.  It  is  convenient  that  there  be  allowed  out  of  the  impost  of 
tobacco  for  his  transportation  &  yearly  entertain"',  the  same  to 
be  paid  him  at  the  Annunciation  of  our  Lady  next  for  the  year 
to  end  at  Mictia  [sic],  1629,  and  soe  annually  to  be  paid  him 
during  his  employ"'  there. 


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7.  This  seems  to  be  very  reasonable  &  requisite,  that  letters 
be  written  accordingly. 

(5.  P.  a,  Colonial,  No,  5,  No,  22.) 


The  King  to  Governor  Harvey. 
(Abstract. ) 

1629,  Aug.  10,  Datlands. 

The  King  to  Sir  John  Hearvey,  Governor  of  Virginia.  **  Besides 
those  general  matters  which  concerned  his  Maj.  Service  in  that 
Colony,  whereof  we  are  confident  you  will  be  so  careful  as  shall 
answer  our  expectation  of  you,**  gives  him  especial  charge  of  these 
two  things.  The  one  to  call  for  those  Instructions  sent  by  Wil- 
liam Capps,  and  take  an  exact  account  of  what  has  been  done 
therein  and  whose  fault  it  is  that  his  Maj.  has  received  no  answer 
concerning  the  same  and  put  those  things  into  due  execution. 
The  other  to  examine  all  the  many  complaints  of  notable  oppres- 
sions done  in  Virginia,  especially  to  the  said  William  Capps,  and 
cause  justice  to  be  done  to  all  persons.  And  if  any  of  his  Maj. 
Council  fall  out  to  be  the  offenders  to  proceed  the  more  roundly 
against  them,  their  off*ences  being  of  the  worst  example,  and  if 
any  shall  have  given  just  cause  for  it  to  sequester  or  remove  them 
from  the  Council  as  he  shall  think  fittest.  And  call  such  others 
to  his  assistance  as  he  shall  find  to  be  of  the  best  deserts. 

I  p.     {Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  5,  No.  93.) 


Sr.  John  Hearvey  to   Receive  the  Fines  of  Virginia. 

(Copy.) 

Trusty  and  well  beloved  wee  greet  you  well.  Whereas  wee 
are  in  informed  that  since  the  dissolution  of  the  late  comp'  of 
that  our  colony  of  Virginia  all  our  governors  there  haVe  received 
&  enjoyed  to  themselves  w**out  accompt.  the  fines  &  emercemts 
arising  in  any  kind  by  any  sentence  of  o'  courts  of  justice  there, 
as  an  addition  for  their  better  support  in  respect  of  their  great 
charge  in  our  service  at  ye  quarter  courts,  and  otherwise  wee 
have  therefore  thought  fitt  for  the  avoyding  of  all  doubts  that 
may  be  made  by  you,  our  Treasurer  there,  or  any  other  person 
whomsoever  hereby  to  declare  that  it  is  our  royall  will  and  pleas- 


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VIRGINIA  IN  1629  AND  1630.  373 

ure  and  accordingly  hereby  we  doe  give  order  that  our  present 
governor,  S' John  Hearvey,  shall  during  the  time  of  his  residence 
there  in  our  service  as  governor  receive  &  enjoy  to  his  owne  use 
all  the  said  fines  and  amerciam'*  &  all  other  profits  w"**  usually 
heretofore  be,  and  his  predecessors  have  done  w'^out  any  account 
for  ye  same  either  for  the  time  past  or  to  come,  whereof  wee 
require  you  and  all  others  whome  it  may  concerne  to  take  notice 
of  this  our  grace  &  favor,  and  for  soe  doing  this  shall  be  yo' 
warrant.  Dated,  &c.,  Aug.  29,  1629. 
C^.  P,  a,  Colonial,  No.  5.) 


Duty  on  Tobacco. 

(Ahstract.) 

1629,  Sept.  18. 

Declaration  by  the  King  that  there  shall  be  taken  3*  only 
upon  every  pound  of  tobacco  already  imported  from  Virginia 
and  the  Somers  Islands,  in  lieu  of  all  customs,  imposts  and  other 
duties  heretofore  payable,  to  be  collected  by  the  farmers  upon 
tobacco  in  such  manner  and  proportion  as  the  Lord  Treasurer 
shall  think  fit. 

{^Docquet  Domestic,  Charles  L^ 


Council  of  Virginia  to  the  Privy  Council. 

(Copy.) 

Letters  from  the  Commissioners  of  Virginia  to  the  Lords  of 
the  Privy  Council  [Nov.  30,  1629]. 

Right  Honourable: 

May  it  please  your  Lordshipps  to  understand  that  about  the 
'  beginning  of  October  last  there  arrived  in  this  Colony  the  Lord 
Baltimore,*  from  his  Plantation  of  Newfoundland,  with  an  inten- 
tion, as  wee  are  informed,  rather  to  plant  himself  to  the  South- 
ward, then  settle  heere,  although  since  he  hath  seemed  well 
affected  to  this  place,  and  willing  to  make  his  residence  therein 
with  his  whole  family.  Wee  were  readyly  inclined  to  render 
unto  his  Lordshipp  all  those  respects  which  were  due  unto  the 
honor  of  his  person  or  which  might  testifie  with  how  much  glad- 
nes  we  desired  to  receive  and  entertaine  him,  as  being  of  that 


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eminence  and  degree  whose  presence  and  aflection  might  give 
greate  advancement  to  this  Plantation.  Whereuppon,  accord- 
ing to  the  instructions  from  your  Lordshipps  and  the  usual! 
course  held  in  this  place,  wee  tendered  the  oathes  of  Supremacie 
and  Aleidgeance  to  his  Lordshipps  and  some  of  his  followers, 
who,  making  profession  of  the  Romishe  Religion,  utterly  refused 
to  take  the  same,  a  thing  which  wee  could  not  have  doubted  in 
him,  whose  former  employments  under  his  late  Majesty  might 
have  indeared  to  us  a  persuasion,  hee  would  not  have  made  de- 
nial of  that,  in  poynt  whereof  consisteth  the  loyaltie  and  fideltie 
which  every  true  subject  oweth  unto  his  Sovraigne.  His  Lord- 
shipp  then  offered  to  take  this  oath,  a  coppy  whereof  is  included, 
but  in  true  discharge  of  the  trust  imposed  in  us  by  his  Majestic, 
wee  could  not  imagine  that  soe  much  latitude  was  left  for  us  to 
decline  from  the  prescribed  forme,  soe  stricdy  exacted  and  soe 
well  justefied  and  defended  by  the  pen  of  our  late  Soveraigne 
Lord,  King  James,  of  happy  memory.  .  And  amonge  the  many 
blessinges  and  favours  for  which  wee  are  bound  to  blesse  God, 
and  which  this  Colony  hathe  receaved  from  his  most  gratious 
Majestic,  there  is  none  whereby  it  hath  beene  made  more  happy 
then  in  the  freedome  of  our  Religion  which  wee  have  enjoyed, 
and  that  noe  papists  have  beene  suffered  to  settle  their  aboard 
amongst  us;  the  continuance  whereof  wee  most  humbly  implore 
from  his  most  sacred  Majestic,  and  earnestly  beseech  your  Lord- 
shipps that  by  your  mediations  &  councells  the  same  may  bee 
established  and  confirmed  unto  us.  And  wee.  as  our  duly  is, 
with  the  whole  Colony  shall  allwaies  pray  for  his  Majesty's  long 
life  and  eternall  felicity,  from  whose  royall  hands  this  plantation 
must  expect  her  establishment  and  for  whose  honour  God  hath 
reserved  soe  glorious  a  worke  as  the  perfection  thereof:  Wee 
humbly  take  our  leave. 

Your  Lordshipps  very  humble  servants, 

(Signed,)  Sam  Mathewes, 

John  Potts, 
Roger  Smyth, 
W.  Claybourne. 

The  30th  November,  1629. 
To  the  right  honourable  the  Lords  of  his  Majesties  most  hon- 
ourable Privey  Councill. 

(s.  P.  a,  Co/o,,  yo/,s.  No,  40.) 


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The  Governor  of  Virginia's  Memorial. 

(Abstract.) 

1630,  April.  **The  Governor  of  Virginia's  Memoriar*  [en- 
dorsed by  Sec.  Lord  Dorchester.*]  That  his  Majesty  would 
cause  some  care  to  be  had  for  the  supplantinjg^  of  English  to- 
bacco, which  may  best  be  effected  by  an  act  of  Parliament,  see- 
ing that  notwithstanding  his  Maj.  Proclamation  forbidding  the 
planting,  it  is  planted  much  more  than  formerly  in  divers  parts 
of  this  Kingdom  whereby  the  Plantations  are  like  to  be  in  short 
time  deserted  and  utterly  disabled  from  planting  useful  commod- 
ities which  the  '*  fertileness  * '  of  Virginia  may  produce,  Besides 
great  hindrance  to  the  sale  of  Virginia  tobacco.  That  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Virginia  take  bond  of  all  Masters  of  ships  to  bring  all 
the  Commodities  laden  there  into  England. 

I  p.     (^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  5.  No.  84.) 


Governor  Harvey  to  Lord  Dorchester. 

'Copy.) 

Addressed:  To  the  Right  honorable  the  Lo.  Viscount  Dor- 
chester, principall  Secretaire  of  State  to  his  Ma"'  of  Create  Brit- 
taine,  these. 

Right  Honb»*: 

May  it  please  yo'  Lo**,  that  after  a  long  &  tedious  passage, 
by  reason  of  a  leakie  shipp,  we  were  forced  to  direct  our  course 
to  the  Southward  as  farr  as  the  Islands  of  Cape  de  Verd,  where 
we  found  about  40  Holland  men  of  Warr  (bound,  as  I  was  after- 
wards informed),  for  F*erdinando  Buck,  a  part  of  the  West  In- 
dies, having  for  their  guide  a  PortugalF,  day  lie  expecting  as 
manie  more  shipps  to  come  thither  as  should  make  their  fleet  80 
shipps  of  Warr,  and  between  5  &  6,000  land  souldiers.  Wee 
had  no  sooner  cast  anchor  but  the  generall  of  their  fleet  sent 
for  our  capt.  to  come  aboord  him,  intendinge  (as  it  was  afterward 


*  Dudley  Carleton  (1 573-1 631),  embassador  to  Venice,  Savoy  and  the 
Low  Countries,  created  Baron  Carleton  in  1628,  and  Viscount  Dorchester 
in  1630,  and  in  the  same  year  appointed  one  of  the  principal  Secretaries 
of  State. 


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related  unto  me  by  Capt.  Huncke,  an  English  gent.,  sergeant 
maior  generall  of  the  armie),  to  have  staid  our  shipp  and  to  take 
her  along  with  him,  least  we  accidentallie  encounteringe  w'"  anie 
of  the  Spanish  men  of  warr,  might  discover  something  of  their 
designs  by  conversinge  with  them.  The  heate  of  this  climate 
brought  a  generall  sickness  among  our  people  through  our  shipp, 
and  the  length  of  our  passage  caused  us  to  come  later  into  the 
countrey,  w"*"  together  with  a  great  sickness  that  fell  upon  myself 
at  sea  and  hanged  long  upon  me,  hindered  me  exceedinglie  in 
my  intentions,  so  that  I  could  not  have  an  assemblie  untill  the 
weeke  before  Easter,  for  ordering  the  affaires  of  the  Country 
w*"  I  found  miserablie  perplexed  through  want  of  corne,  w**  the 
people  had  the  last  yeare  generallie  neglected  to  plant,  in  regard 
of  their  greedie  desires  to  make  store  of  Tobackoe,  for  remedie 
whereof  wee  made  an  act  to  augment  the  quantitie  of  corne  & 
restraine  their  excess  in  Tobackoe.  Wee  also  agreed  to  make 
a  fortification  at  Pointe  Comforte  for  the  Country's  service 
against  a  forraigne  enemie.  Wee  also  agreed  to  continue  the 
Warrs  against  the  natives  w*"  wee  conceave  will  remove  them 
farr  from  us  or  force  them  to  seek  for  peace  at  our  handes.  I 
likewise  made  a  proposition  in  the  assemblie,  concerning  the 
settinge  forward  of  divers  staple  commodities  as  the  makinge  of 
Potashes,  and  hope  about  a  month  hence  to  send  home  for  a 
sample,  and  alsoe  the  plantinge  of  vines,  Hempe,  Flax,  Rape 
seed  and  the  makinge  of  salt,  but  the  yeare  beinge  nowe  soe  farr 
spent  and  the  necessitie  of  makinge  provision  of  come  of  soe 
greate  consequence,  that  these  things  can  not  be  this  summer 
effected,  but  the  next  yeare  yf  it  please  God  to  give  me  health, 
I  doubt  not  but  I  shall  give  your  Lo**  a  good  account  of  my  dil- 
igence herein.  This  summer  I  purpose  to  spend  in  surveyhing 
the  countrey  to  finde  out  the  fittest  places  for  effectinge  the 
things  propounded.  I  have  already  (notwithstandinge  my  weak- 
ness), made  a  journey  to  the  Iron  Works  (formerlie  begun)  at 
the  fall  on  w*"  the  Indians  have  demolished,  but  the  place  is  sur- 
rounded w**  timber,  plentie  of  freestone  at  hand  &  a  plentifull 
streame  of  water,  winter  &  summer,  and  Mine  in  abundance,  all 
things  verie  commodious  for  the  present  and  future.  I  have 
alsoe  hope  to  discover  a  Salt  Peter  mine  in  the  Bay.  I  likewise 
intend  about  September,  when   the  heate  is  over,  to  travaile 


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about  8  or  lo  dayes  journey  above  the  falls  to  enforme  myself 
truly  whether  there  be  anie  such  silver  mine  as  is  and  hath  bin 
commonlie  reported  or  not.  And  I  desire  yo'  Lo**  will  be  pleased 
to  excuse  me  to  the  Lords  of  the  Counsell  (as  occasion  may 
happen).  In  regard  I  have  not  written  unto  them  by  this  shipp, 
whose  hastie  departure  prevented  me,  but  by  the  next  shipp, 
which  will  be  about  a  month  hence  (god  willing),  I  will  not  ne- 
glect to  give  their  Lo**  an  account  of  all  things.  In  the  mean 
tyme  prayinge  for  yo'  Lop*  health,  together  w"**  encrease  of  all 
happiness  &  honor,  I  rest,  at  yo'  Lo**^  Service. 

John  Harvey. 
Virginia,  Maie  9th,  1630.     (S.  P,  O.,  Colonial,  No.  5.) 


The  Governor  to  Lord  Dorchester. 

(Copy.) 

To  the  Right  Honorable  the  Lo.  Vicecounte  Dorchester,  prin- 
cipall  Secretaire  of  State  to  his  Ma***  there. 

Right  Honorable,  according  to  his  Ma'^^comand  I  have  enquired 
and  enformed  myselfe  touchinge  the  Instructions  sent  by  William 
Capps  to  the  then  Governor  &  Counsell  here  and  have  found 
recorded  their  answers  to  the  same  sent  home  the  yeare  folio w- 
inge  by  Mr.  Edward  Bennett,  Marchant,  &  Captaine  Michaell 
Mashart,  w*"**  letters  I  understand  were  delivered  by  them  to  the 
late  E^rle  of  Marlebroughe,  deceased.  The  coppies  [wanting] 
whereof  I  have  herew***  sent  yo'  Lo**  together  with  the  orders  of 
courte  then  made  concerninge  him  w***  yf  it  y lease  yo'  Lo**  to 
peruse  may  enform  his  Ma"*  therein,  and  for  His  Ma"**  further 
satisfaction  there  is  no  we  in  England  Captaine  Francis  West  the 
Governor,  Captain  William  Clabourne,  then  Secretarie,  and  Cap- 
tain William  Tucker,  one  of  the  Counsell  of  State,  when  these 
things  were  in  agitation.  And  at  that  tyme  (as  I  am  informed), 
some  questions  arrisinge  in  their  proceedings  with  Capps.  The 
said  governor  replied  that  he  should  take  upon  himselfe  to  answer 
all  matters  concerninge  the  cariadge  of  that  business.  Therefore 
yt  y"'  Lo**  hould  it  requisite  further  to  acquaint  his  Ma"*  therew**, 
you  may  heare  of  the  said  Clabourne  at  his  brothers  house, 
without  Ludgate,  a  stockinge  seller,  and  by  him  of  the  rest. 


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After  Captaine  Francis  West's  departure  for  England,  the  Coun- 
sell  here  residinge  made  choice  of  one  Dr.  John  Pott,  a  Physician 
to  succeed  him  as  govornor,  until!  his  Ma****  further  pleasure  were 
signified  by  a  newe  commission,  against  whose  ill  cariadge  and 
oppressions  in  the  government,  I  have  received  manie  grievous 
complaints  as  for  pardoninge  willfull  murther,  markinge  other 
mens  cattell  for  his  own,  and  killinge  up  their  hoggs,  insomuch 
as  I  have  put  him  of  from  being  anie  longer  of  the  counsell  and 
have  confined  him  to  his  Plantation  seaven  miles  from  James 
cittie,  the  seate  of  the  Governor,  and  I  purpose  (God  willinge), 
to  proceed  against  him  accordingeto  the  charge  I  have  receaved 
from  his  Ma""  under  his  owne  signature,  the  Coppie  whereof  I 
have  here  inclosed  to  yo'  Lo^  In  my  former  letter  by  the  Susan 
of  London,  I  signified  to  yo'  Lo**  that  I  had  called  an  assemblie 
in  which  it  was  ordered  that  plentie  of  come  should  this  yeare 
be  planted,  whereof  I  founde  the  countrey  is  great  want,  and  a 
third  part  less  Tobackoe  than  in  the  former  yeare.  And  also  a 
a  forte  to  be  builded  at  Pointe  Comforte  in  the  Entrance  of  James 
river.  The  Plott  whereof  I  have  herewith  sent  you  [wanting]. 
It  was  alsoe  concluded  to  proceede  in  the  warr  w*"  the  Natives, 
either  toroote  them  out,  or  force  them  toseeke  peace,  to  w"*  end 
wee  alsoe  agreed  the  next  spring  to  plant  Chesheyack,  a  place 
scituate  upon  Pamondkey,  being  a  river  next  unto  us  northward, 
whereby  wee  shall  face  our  greatest  enemie  Appochankeno,  and 
disable  the  Salvages  to  annoy  us,  or  hinder  the  free  range  of  our 
cattell  in  the  forest.  The  country  havinge  at  this  tyme  about 
twelve  hundred  head  of  neate  cattell  besides  swine  &  goates,  w** 
I  will  by  all  means  seeke  to  preserve,  and  for  as  much  as  I  have 
hitherto  attended  his  ma****  service  at  my  owne  charge  w%ut  anie 
helpe  at  all,  that  I  yet  knowe  of,  I  humblie  therefore  desire  yo'r 
Lo**  be  pleased  to  aftord  me  yo'  honorable  favoure  to  his  Ma*** 
(if  alreadie  there  be  no  course  taken  for  me).  That  his  Ma**"  will 
be  gratiouslie  pleased  to  grant  me  everie  yeare  the  costume  of 
one  shipp  of  about  two  or  three  hundred  tuns  burden  (that  shall 
care  from  hence)  towards  my  charges,  whereby  I  may  be  able 
to  subsist,  to  doe  his  Ma*'"  service,  or  in  any  other  way  that  his 
Lor'p  shall  thinkefitt  and  I  shall  as  in  dutie  bounde,  ever  remaine 
at  yo'  Lo'ps  service  to  be  comanded. 

John  Harvey. 

Virginia,  Maie  29th,  1630.     (S,  P,  O.,  Colonial,  No.  5.) 


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Governor  Harvey  to  Lord  Dorchester. 
(Copy.) 
To  the  Ri^ht  Ho'ble  the  Lo.  Visecounte  Dorchester,  prtncipall 
Secretarie  of  State  to  His  Ma***  these. 

Right  Hon*'^': 

I  formerlie  wrote  yo'  Lop.  touchinge  the  erecting  of  a  forte 
at  Pointe  Comforte,  the  entrance  of  our  River,  and  I  am  now 
to  acquaint  yo'  Lop.  concerning  one  Captaine  Sam*  Mathewe,* 
the  Sole  undertaker  of  that  worke,  who  hath  long  bin  a  planter 
in  this  countrey  and  one  of  the  counsel!  here  many  yeares.  This 
gent  I  found  most  readie  to  set  forward  all  services  propounded 
for  his  Ma'**  Honor  and  the  generall  good  of  his  Colonic,  and 
without  his  faithfuU  assistance  perhaps  I  should  not  so  soone 
have  brought  the  business  of  this  countrey  to  soe  good  effect. 
In  regard  whereof  I  have  made  bould  to  assure  him  of  His  Ma'*" 
favoure,  accordinge  the  words  of  his  gratious  letter  herein  en- 
closed, where  in  his  Highness  hath  vouchsafed  to  encourage  his 
subjects  here  in  this  well  doinge,  promissinge  to  be  the  rewarder 
of  such  well  deserving  Planters  as  by  their  good  service  shall 
merite  the  same.  And  thereby  I  am  embouldened  to  acquaint 
yo'  Lop.  with  his  humble  request,  which  is  that  his  Ma**"  in  re- 
garde  of  his  undertakinge  and  towardes  the  rewarde  of  his 
services  would  gratiouslie  be  pleased  to  give  him  the  costume  of 
his  owne  proper  Tobacco,  gained  by  his  owne  industry  and  the 
labour  of  his  owne  servantes,  for  one  yeare  or  two,  w*'*'  reward 
will  not  onlie  encourage  him,  but  all  others,  to  studie  wayes  of 
deservinge  at  his  Ma****  handes,  otherwise  he  must  of  necessitie 
be  a  greate  looser  in  his  undertakings,  consideringe  the  base 
rates  of  tobacco,  he  beinge  to  have  no  satisfaction  but  in  that 
comoditie.  And  least  it  should  be  doubted  that  he  should  send 
home  other  tobacco  than  shall  bdonge  to  himselfe,  I  will  under- 
take to  make  certificate  thereof  by  the  oathes  of  honest  men 
here  in  the  Collonie,  and  I  most  humblie  beseeche  you'  lop.  that 
I  may  receave  some  annsweare  touchinge  my  request  in  the 

♦Samuel  Matthews,  member  of  the  Virginia  Council  1624- 1644,  and 
again  in  1652,  and  Governor  of  Virginia  from  December,  1656,  to  his 
death,  January,  1659.  For  notes  in  regard  to  him,  see  this  Magazine ^  I. 
91-92,  416-424. 


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380  VIRGINIA   HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

behalfe  of  that  gentleman.  I  am  at  present  sending  two  small 
shipps  to  the  Southward  as  high  as  Cape  Feare  to  trade  for  corne 
for  the  reliefe  of  the  Colonie,  and  alsoe  to  inform  myselfe  thereby 
of  the  conveniences  there  for  plantinge  sugars  and  cottons;  by 
the  next  yeares  letters  yo'  lop.  shall  have  an  accompt  thereof, 
w***  all  other  our  proceedes;  and  soe  desiringe  the  Almightie 
God  to  bless  yo'  Lop.  w'"  health  &  all  happiness,  I  rest. 

Yo*r  Lopps.  ever  to  doe  your  service, 

John  Harvey. 

Virginia,  Maie  29th,  1630. 

(S.  P,  a.  Colonial,  No,  5,) 


Governor  Harvey  to  the  Privy  Council. 
(Copy.) 
Received  October,  1630.     From  John  Harvie,  Knt.,  Governor 
of  Virginia,  touching  the  state  of  that  colonie. 

Addressed:   To  the  Right  Hon**'"  the  Lo"  and  others  of  his 
Ma****  most  honorable  Privie  Counsell  these. 

Right  Honorable: 

May  it  please  yo'  Lo'ps,  By  reason  of  a  long  passage  and 
dangerous  sickness  I  was  not  able  to  applie  myself  to  the  aflfafrs 
of  this  collonie  untill  the  weeke  before  easter,  against  which 
time  I  called  an  assemblie  to  James  cittie.  In  the  meane  tyme 
enquiringe  as  much  as  I  could  into  the  state  of  the  country,  I 
found  it  to  abound  in  Tobacco  and  noe  one  other  comoditie  on 
foote  and  soe  greate  want  of  corne  to  bringe  the  yeare  aboute, 
that  thereby  I  founde  myselfe  greatelie  discouraged.  Where- 
upon it  was  resolved  to  send  two  small  Barques  into  Chesepeiack 
Bay  to  trade  for  corne  with  beades,  hatchets  and  such  unusual 
truckinge  stuff  as  the  colonie  was  provided  of,  w*''*  have  brought 
in  about  300  bushells,  and  are  goinge  againe  to  trie  farther  downe 
in  the  Bay  for  more,  and  in  June  I  purpose  to  send  to  the  South- 
ward as  farr  as  Cape  Feare  to  seeke  corne,  where  we  hope  to 
finde  newe  corne  ripe  by  that  tyme.  And  this  is  done  not  onlie 
to  relieve  them  for  the  presents  but  to  preserve  our  corn  on  the 
ground  which  otherwise  the  people  would  be  forced  tofeede  upon 
before  it  cometh  to  ripeness,  w***  is  most  unwholesome  for  their 
bodies  and  would  bring  us  into  the  same  straite  the  next  yeare; 


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w*^  God's  helpe  all  possible  diligence  and  care  shall  be  had  for 
the  relief  of  the  colonie.  I  founde  one  Dr.  John  Potts,  a  phisi- 
tion,  governor  here  at  my  cominge  into  this  country  who  was 
elected  thereunto  by  those  of  the  counsel!  here,  who  made  use 
of  this  opportunitie,  seekinge  his  owne  benefit  by  foule  &  covet- 
eous  ways,  as  by  pardoninge  wilfuU  murder,  and  investinge  ye 
murtherer  into  his  former  estate  and  giving  him  his  pass  out  of 
the  countrey  after  a  legall  condemnation,  a  copie  of  his  investure 
I  have  here  inclosed  sent  yo'  Lop. ,  also  by  cutinge  out  the  markes 
of  other  mens  neate  cattell  and  markinge  them  for  himselfe  w*** 
his  owne  handes,  whereby  he  hath  gotten  into  a  greate  stock  of 
catteW,  of  all  which  I  haveproofe  upon  oath.  Manie  other  com- 
plaints will  alsoe  be  brought  against  him,  for  w*""  I  have  for  the 
present  put  him  from  being  of  ye  counsell  and  confined  him  to 
his  house  seaven  miles  from  James  cittie,  untill  a  convenient  tyme 
to  proceed  against  him,  for  my  proceede  of  this  kinde.  I  have 
received  his  Ma"**  comands,  under  his  owne  hand  as  my  Lo.  of 
Dorchester  can  acquaint  yo'  honors. 

Concerning  yo'  Lops,  instructions,  I  intepd  to  prosecute  them 
with  all  diligence,  some  of  which  I  have  alreadie  put  in  practice, 
namely,  plantinge  of  Rape  seed  and  makinge  of  Potashes,  a 
sample  whereof  I  have  sent  home  to  be  delivered  to  my  Lo. 
Treasurer. 

As  yet  I  have  not  had  leasure  to  take  the  generall  musters  of 
the  colonie,  punctuallie  to  know  the  number  of  the  people,  w*" 
are  estimated  to  be  upward  of  2,500,  and  our  neate  cattell  about 
twelve  hundred,  besides  a  greate  quantitie  of  swine  and  goates. 

I  formerlie  sent  unto  Sr.  John  Wolstenholme  some  of  our  iron 
oare  in  two  parcells,  the  one  of  the  lower  parte  of  the  River, 
the  other  of  the  upper  parte,  with  relation  of  the  state  of  the 
iron  work  begun  before  the  massacre.  By  our  assemblie  here 
this  yeare  an  order  was  made  for  restraint  of  plantinge  Tobacco 
by  a  third  parte  less  then  the  former  yeare,  and  for  encrease  of 
come,  w"**  by  God's  help  I  will  see  performed.  Alsoe  they 
agreed  upon  makinge  a  forte  at  Pointe  Comforte,  capable  of  12- 
or  16  pieces  of  ordiance,  the  most  part  whereof  I  hope  will  be 
mounted  before  christmas  next.  All  w'"  is  to  be  done  at  the 
charge  of  the  colonie,  whereby  your  honor  may  justlie  conceive 
the  people  here  are  nowe  more  than  ever  resolved  to  make  it 


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382  VIRGINIA    HISTORICAL   MAGAZINE. 

their  countrey,  and  seeinge  the  base  condition  of  Tobacco,  are 
willinge  with  all  conveniencie  to  set  themselves  upon  the  raisinge 
other  comodities.  Thi9  yeare  the  Marchantes  here  have  bought 
our  tobacco  w"*  theire  comodities  at  less  then  a  penny  the  pounde, 
and  have  not  shamed  to  make  the  planters  pay  twelve  poundes 
Sterlinge  the  tunn  fraight  home,  and  a  tunn  is  fower  hogsheads 
in  boulcke,  w'*  doth  containe  about  a  thousand  pound  weight  of 
Tobacco.  I  doubt  not  but  everie  yeare  that  it  shall  please  His 
Ma'*"  to  continue  me  in  this  place  of  trust  to  effect  some  thinge 
for  his  Ma****  honour  &  the  good  of  his  Colonic,  and  I  most 
humblie  beseeche  yo'  Lo**"  to  move  his  ma"*  in  my  behalfe.  That 
I  may  receive  some  helpe  towards  the  maintenance  of  my  ex- 
penses, having  lived  upon  my  own  charge  until  this  hour,  and 
my  fortunes  soe  wasted  thereby  that  I  day  lie  become  endebted. 
All  w*"  I  refer  to  yo'  Lo*^  grave  consideration  and  humblie  rest 
ever  most  readie  to  fullfil  yo'  Lordship's  commands  to  the  utmost 
of  my  power. 

John  Harvey. 
Va.,  May  29,  1630. 

(S.  P.  a,  Colojiial,  No,  5,^ 


Governor  Pott's  Release  of  a  Confiscated  Estate. 

(Copy.) 
(Enclosure.)  Virginia,  29  May.  1630. 

Endorsed:  The  investment  of  Ed.  Wallis,  by  Dr.  Potts.  A 
copy  of  Dr.  Potts'  investment  of  Edward  Wallis,  condemned 
for  willfull  murder. 

To  all  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  come,  greeting  in  our 
Lord  God  Everlastinge:  Whereas  Edward  Wallis,  late  of 
Archer's  Hope  in  Virginia,  Gent.,  was  latelie  apprehended,  in- 
dicted &  arraigned  before  me.  Dr.  John  Potts,  Governor  & 
Captaine  Generall  of  Virginia  &  counsell  of  state  there  resident, 
for  wilfull  murder  by  him  done  and  committed,  and  by  the  oathes 
of  twelve  honest  and  Sufficient  men  was  found  guiltie  thereof, 
whereby  his  whole  estate  was  confiscated  to  our  Sovereign  Lord 
the  King,  and  was  by  me,  the  said  Governor,  seized  on  for  the 
use  of  our  Said  Sovereign  Lord  that  nowe  is.  Nowe  Knowe  ye 
that  I,  the  said  Gov',  at  the  humble  suit  &  earnest  request  of  the 


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said  Edward  Wallis,  preferred  by  his  petition  in  writinge,  as 
alsoe  at  the  earnest  suit  &  request  of  divers  others  his  friends  in 
his  behalf  moved  unto  me,  I  have  for  a  valuable  consideration 
compounded  and  agreed  w***  the  said  Edward  Wallis  for  that 
his  whole  &  full  estate  soe  forfeited  to  our  Sovereign  Lord  the 
King,  And  doe  thereby  invest  and  restore  him,  the  said  Edward 
Wallis,  into  his  former  estate  of  lands,  goods  and  tenements,  w"* 
properly  belong  unto  him  here  in  Virginia  before  his  indictment, 
arraignment  and  conviction  for  the  same  fact,  and  doe  hereby 
grant  him  peaceably  and  quietly  to  have,  hold,  use,  occupy  & 
enjoy  the  same  as  formerlie  he  did,  before  his  indictment,  ar- 
raignment &  conviction.  In  witness  thereof  I  have  hereunto 
sett  my  hand,  &c. 

(S,  P.  a.  Colonial,  No,  s-) 


Gov.  Harvey's  Petition  Concerning  Dr.  Pott. 
(Copy.) 

16  July,  1630,  Virginia. 

Endorsed:  Sir  John  Harvey's  petition  touching  Dr.  Pott. 

To  the  Kings  most  excellent  Majesty,  the  humble  petition  of 
Sir  John  Harvey,  Knt.,  Governor  of  Virginia,  sheweth:  That 
whereas  Dr.  John  Pott,  late  Governor,  for  divers  capital  offences 
by  him  committed  in  the  time  of  his  government,  was  arraigned 
before  me,  and  by  the  oaths  of  twelve  honest  and  understanding 
gent,  (three  of  them  being  counsellors  of  state),  was  found 
guilty  of  two  severall  indictments,  by  which  his  whole  estate 
(though  but  of  a  very  small  value),  is  become  forfeited  to  your 
Ma***.  But  in  regard  he  is  the  only  physicean  in  the  Collonie, 
and  so  well  acquainted  with  the  diseases  here  incident,  that  the 
want  of  his  help  cannot  but  be  very  prejudiciall  to  the  lives  and 
healthes  of  yo'  Ma""  subjects,  especially  at  this  time  when  sick- 
nesses are  so  ripe  amongst  them,  which  I  takinge  more  seriously 
into  consideration  (Being  thereunto  advised  &  solicited  by  the 
Counsell  of  State)  thought  fit  to  respite  the  censure  until  your 
Majesty's  royal  pleasure  shall  be  further  signified  concerning  the 
same.  May  it  therefore  please  yo'  Ma***  to  take  into  your  gra- 
cious consideration  his  long  being  in  the  Country,  his  penitence 
for  his  faults,  &  present  use  the  Collonie  hath  of  his  practice. 


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and  according  to  your  wonted  goodness  and  clemencie  Vouch- 
safe to  pardon  him  of  his  offences  (he  being  led  thereunto  by 
the  example  of  a  former  governor  who  passed  unquestioned  for 
many  notable  oppressions,)  and  restore  to  him  his  former  estate, 
which  though  of  a  verie  small  value,  yet  it  may  be  a  means  to 
enable  him  to  doe  yo'  Ma***  and  your  collonie  service.  And 
Your  Petitioner  (as  in  all  dutie  bound),  shall  daylie  pray,  &c. 
(S.  P.  a.  Colonial,  No.  5.) 


Members  of  the  Council,  1630. 

(Copy.) 
Inclosure.  Virg.,  29  May,  1630. 

The  names  of  such  gent,  as  are  counsellors  of  State  in  Vir- 
ginia. 

A  note  of  such  gent,  as  I  found  of  the  counsell  here  at  my 
com'nge  in. 

Doctor  John  Pott,  a  phisitian,  governor,  Captaine  Sam'  Math- 
ewe,  Mr.  Wm.  Farrar. 

These  underwritten  I  have  sworne  to  be  of  the  Counsell  since 
my  cominge:  Captain  John  West,  uncle  to  the  late  Lord  LeWar, 
Mr.  Henrie  Finche,  brother  to  St.  John  Finche,  Mr.  Christo- 
pher Cowlinge,  Captaine  Rich**  Stephens,  Captain  John  Utie  & 
Capt.  Nath.  Basse.     (6*.  P,  a.  Colonial,  No.  5.) 


The  Privy  Council  to  Gov.   Harvey. 

(Abstract. ) 

1630,  Sept.  30. 

The  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council  to  the  Governor  &  Council  of 
Virginia.  Complaint  hath  been  made  to  his  Maj.  against  them  in 
a  petition  presented  by  the  brother  of  Dr.  Pott,  *'a  man  that 
hath  been  employed  as  you  are,"  and  for  aught  their  Lordships 
know  to  the  contrary  hath  demeaned  himself  well,  and  certifi- 
cates have  been  read  at  the  Board  from  Capt.  Rich.  Stephens, 
one  of  the  Council  there,  and  Capt.  Thos.  Willoughby,  which 
seem  to  import  some  hard  measures  against  him,  are  not  apt  to 
give  credit  to  complaints  of  this  kind  against  a  man  entrusted 
by  his  Maj.  in  a  place  of  Govern"'  as  you  are.  So  enclose  said 
petition  to  proceed  therein  according  to  justice  and  the  orders 


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VIRGINIA    IN    1629   AND    163O.  885 

established  in  that  Govern*  with  convenient  expedition,  that  so 
there  be  no  further  just  cause  of  complaint,  assuring  them  that 
ill  grounded  clamors  shall  have  no  countenance  from  hence,  and 
that  Dr.  Pott  be  called  before  them  to  give  him  a  full  hearing  in 
such  matters  as  he  may  be  charged  withal. 
(^Colonial  Papers,   Vol,  s,  No,  io8,) 


Petition  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Pott. 
(Abstract.) 

1630,  Sept.  30,  inclosure. 

Petition  of  Elizabeth,  in  behalf  of  her  husband,  John  Pott, 
Dr.  of  Physic  &  late  Governor  of  Virginia,  to  the  King.  Has 
taken  a  long  and  dangerous  journey  to  appeal  to  his  Maj.  against 
the  wrongs  done  unto  her  husband.  Upon  her  former  petition 
his  Maj.  referred  the  examination  of  her  just  complaint  to  his 
Maj.  comm"  for  Virginia  in  the  hearing  of  Richard  Yape,  an 
agent  sent  over  by  Governor  Harvey,  but  there  appeared  neither 
proof  nor  any  probable  matter  to  the  comm"  to  justify  the  pro- 
ceedings against  pet"  husband,  either  for  his  life  or  estate.  Prays 
for  his  Maj.  royal  letters  mandatory  to  said  Governor  &  Council 
of  Virginia,  requiring  them  forthwith  to  restore  her  husband  to 
his  lands,  liberty  and  the  small  estate  he  had,  and  that  speedy 
order  be  given  for  pet"  dispatch,  the  last  ship  going  away  within 
two  or  three  days,  or  it  will  be  a  year  before  it  can  be  known 
there.     Petitioner's  family  have  resided  there  above  ten  years. 

{Colonial  Papers,   Vol,  s,  No,  108.) 


The  Privy  Council  to  Gov.  Harvey. 

(Abstract.) 

1630-1,  Jan.  7. 

To  the  Governor  of  Virginia.  The  King  has  ever  been  care- 
ful to  encourage  and  support  that  Plantation  and  has  long  ex- 
pected some  better  fruit  than  tobacco  and  smoke  to  be  returned 
from  thence  as  hath  from  time  to  time  been  promised.  It  is  his 
Maj.  express  command  that  he  [Governor  Harvey]  considers 
what  proportion  of  tobacco  is  necessary  for  his  support  next 
year,  and  that  accordingly  he  rate  every  planter,  and  suffer  not 


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any  to  exceed  his  limited  proportion  nor  more  to  be  exported 
than  that  prescribed  quantity,  bond  to  be  given  to  bring  it  all  to 
the  Port  of  London.  Send  herewith  copy  of  his  Maj.  Procla- 
mation that  he  may  understand  his  Maj.  care  for  the  regulating 
of  this  drug  which  hath  so  much  infected  and  disabled  both  the 
bodies  and  spirits  of  men. 

(Draft  in  the  hand  writing  of  Sec.  Coke.) 

(^Colonial  Papers,  Vol.  6,  No.  3.) 


Papers    Relating   to   the   Administration  of   Governor 

Nicholson  and  to  the  Founding  of 

William  and  Mary  College. 

[continued.] 

[The  captions  in  brackets  have  been  added  by  the  Editor. 
Additions  by  Nicholson  have  been  placed  in  quotations.] 

[Answer  of  John  Thrale  in  Behalf  of  Nicholson — 
continued.] 

As  to  the  Keeping  the  Land  on  Blackwater  &  Pamunkey  neck 
shutt  and  what  relates  to  the  same,  being  (as  is  before  observed) 
under  your  Lordshipp's  consideration  upon  a  Representation 
laid  before  you  by  the  Governor,  the  same  is  submitted  to  your 
judgments. 

3.  He  hath  signed  many  orders,  warrants,  patents  &  Com- 
missions, being  things  of  course  in  the  Council,  without  advice 
of  the  Council,  as  hath  been  usually  done.  But  the  charge 
being  generall,  a  more  particular  answer  cannot  be  given. 

4.  Doth  not  know  that  there  used  to  be  such  a  particular  audit 
day,  and  it  seems  unnecessary  there  should,  seeing  that  there  is 
a  particular  auditor  appointed  by  the  Crowne  who  is  liable  to 
answer  for  the  truth  of  the  accounts. 

5.  This  article  seems  to  be  a  personall  reflection  on  the  Gov- 
ernor, who  *tis  confess*  d  is  not  a  man  incapable  of  being  raised 
to  a  Passion;  but  if  the  instances  had  been  assigned,  it  would 
have  appeared  that  it  was  when  he  had  good  reason  to  appre- 
hend that  the  debates  of  the  persons  who  were  the  occasion  of 


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such,  hb  passion f  tended  to  the  dishonor  of  the  Crowne  or  the 
disservice  of  that  Colony.  But  it  doth  not  appear  in  any  par- 
ticular instance  that  he  ever  did  deny  freedom  of  debate  in 
Council,  so  long  as  the  members  kept  themselves  within  the 
limits  of  decency  and  moderation. 

6.  This  article  he  doth  admit  and  justify,  his  instruction  being 
not  to  communicate  more  of  his  instructions  to  the  Council  than 
he  shall  think  At. 

7.  This  article  charges  the  Governor  only  with  passionate  ex- 
pressions to  particular  persons  on  particular  occasions,  which,  if 
they  had  been  expressed,  might  Either  have  justified  the  Gov- 
ernor in  it  or  mitigated  any  censure  for  it,  and  this  seems  to  be 
the  case,  since  the  memoriall  Saies  that  by  these  means  he  en- 
deavoured to  procure  the  good  opinion  of  the  people  with  some 
warmth,  preventing  any  incroachments  that  some  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Council  might  attempt  upon  their  Rights. 

§  2.  As  to  the  charge  upon  him  for  his  Behavior  in  the  upper 
house  of  Assembly — 

1.  He  thinks  he  hath  a  right  to  be  in  that  house,  and  doth  not 
think  himself  guilty  of  any  crime  in  endeavoring  by  all  fair 
methods  to  influence  their  debates  so  as  the  same  may  tend  to 
the  honor  of  the  Crown  and  the  peace,  liberty  and  prosperity 
of  the  Colony. 

2,  3,  4,  5.  The  second,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  article  of  this 
charge  are  so  generall  that  it  is  impossible  to  give  any  answer  to 
them.  As  to  what  he  declares  of  his  resolution  to  lead  out  the 
men  when  the  Governor  of  the  New  York  should  demand  them, 
the  same  was  nothing  but  what  he  looked  upon  to  be  his  duty 
to  assist  his  brother  Governor  and  fellow  subject  in  case  he  stood 
in  need  of  such  his  assistance. 

As  to  the  charge  upon  him  for  his  Behaviour  in  the  Generall 
Courts: 

1.  The  charge  of  Partiality  is  very  generall  and  not  to  be 
credited  from  persons  who  never  were  suiters  in  these  Courts, 
when  none  of  the  suiters  themselves  complain. 

2.  The  keeping  of  Courts  at  unreasonable  hours  of  the  night 
is  cunningly  couch* d,  as  if  he  began  the  Courts  at  these  hours, 
when  in  truth  the  Courts  are  begun  at  the  usual  hours,  unless 
upon  some  extraordinary  occasion,  but  if  by  the  length  of  the 


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causes  the  same  cannot  be  sooner  dispatched  (the  causes  of  the 
day  being  alwaies  docquetted  and  called  in  order  as  set  downe), 
if  he  hath  set  later  than  the  Governors  have  heretofore  usually 
done  (rather  than  put  the  people  to  a  new  attendance)  he  hopes 
that  this  cannot  be  imputed  to  him  as  a  crime. 

3.  As  to  the  article  relating  to  Juries,  it  is  a  malitious  Insinu- 
ation and  such  as  this  Respondent  believes  they  can  make  no 
proof  of. 

4.  The  fourth  Article  is  so  general  no  answer  can  be  given 
to  it. 

§  4.  As  to  the  charge  against  him  for  other  pubUck  abuses  in 
his  Government: 

1.  As  to  the  making  use  of  his  Maties.  name  in  any  of  his 
commands  as  Governor  he  thinks  it  no  more  than  what  he  ought 
to  do  and  what  is  constantly  practised,  but  there  is  no  instance 
given  of  his  using  the  same  upon  any  unjust  or  arbitrary  com- 
mands. 

2.  3.  To  incourage  persons  that  do  at  any  time  give  him  an 
account  of  any  matters  which  doe  concerne  the  publiclt,  and  to 
take  such  matters  in  writing  upon  the  oath  of  the  Informant,  he 
thinks  is  nothing  but  his  duty,  and  if  he  judges  it  of  moment  to 
transmit  the  same  to  England,  and  this  is  what  is  called  encour- 
aging of  tatlers  and  tale  bearers,  but  this  as  well  as  the  third  ar- 
ticle is  too  general  to  receive  any  other  answer. 

4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  To  the  fourth,  fifth,  sixth,  seventh,  eighth, 
ninth  and  tenth  articles: 

It  is  answered  that  they  are  the  charge  of  some  passionate  & 
indiscreet  words  and  actions  if  true,  but  that  the  same  are  in 
such  generall  termes  that  it  is  impossible  a  direct  answer  should 
be  given  to  the  same. 

11.  To  the  eleventh,  supposing  the  fact  to  be  true,  it  is  no 
more  than  what  doth  frequently  happen  in  the  Courts  of  Eng- 
land that  a  person  bound  over  or  committed  and  at  last  no  pros- 
ecution against  them  but  the  cause  of  this  Comitment  or  at  whose 
complaint  the  same  was,  is  not  menconed  &  therefore  can  receive 
no  direct  answer. 

12.  13.  14.  15.  These  articles  contain  chiefly  reflections  on 
the  p'son  of  the  Governor  and  nothing  of  charge  in  the  admin- 
istration of  Government.     But  the  15th  is  a  malicious  reflection 


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upon  the  whole  body  of  the  Clergy  as  men  that  would  make 
their  Consciences  truckle  to  their  Interest.  But  the  reason  of 
this  is  plain  from  the  different  representations  made  by  them  of 
the  Governor  and  his  actions  in  their  addresse,  from  what  is  con- 
tained in  the  memoreall,  which  addresse  was  made  without  any 
promise  or  threats  on  the  Governor's  part,  and  was  signed  by 
Mr,  Blair  himself  not  many  daies  before  the  date  of  the  Memo- 
riall. 

1 6.  As  to  the  sixteenth  Article  the  fact  may  be  true  that  a 
Naval  officer  was  removed  and  another  better  qualified  put  in 
his  place,  but  this  is  not  so  much  as  insinuated  to  be  done  with- 
out the  advice  of  the  Council,  nor  was  the  same  done  for  the 
Reasons  maliciously  insinuated  in  the  charge.  As  to  the  great 
trader  menconed  to  be  put  in  (it  is  supposed  they  mean  one  Mr. 
Wilson,  who  was  put  in  by  the  advice  of  the  Council  and  there- 
upon gave  over  trading  to  his  son  and  hath  not  been  Much  in 
trade  since  17 — . 

17.  The  seventeenth  Article  only  charging  him  with  good  hus- 
bandry when  alone  generosity  on  publick  occasions  and  hospitality 
to  all  Strangers  is  no  charge  that  doth  require  an  answer. 

18.  The  eighteenth  article  contains  severall  generall  charges 
heap*d  together,  some  not  before  menconed,  to  which  it  is  im- 
possible (being  generall),  an  answer  should  be  given;  other  things 
that  have  been  before  charged  and  already  answered  together 
with  a  Repetition  of  the  reflection  upon  the  few  clergy  of  the 
church  of  England,  as  they  are  called,  and  the  heavy  charge 
upon  the  Governor  for  being  intimate  and  holding  a  correspon- 
dence with  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence  and  Col.  Quary.  The  Gov- 
ernor doth  own  his  correspondence  with  those  Gentlemen,  it 
being  in  his  judgment  necessary  for  her  Ma* ties  service  he  should 
so  do,  and  hopes  that  the  affections  and  actions  of  these  gende- 
men  have  not  been  such  as  to  make  a  Correspondence  with  them 
Criminall.  As  to  the  Prayer  at  the  Conclusion  of  the  Memoriall 
the  Respondent  doth  submit  to  their  Lordshipps.  But  doubts 
not  but  these  gentlemen  who  have  been  so  long  in  nursing  up 
this  Memoriall  (being  members  of  the  Council  and  having  thereby 
recourse  to  all  the  books  and  Records,  which  they  now  desire 
leave  to  resort  to,  have  taken  such  extracts  out  of  the  same  (if 


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any  such  there  are  to  be  found),  as  may  indue  some  credit  to  this 
heavy  charge  against  the  Governor. 

But  this  Respondent  hopes  that  your  Lordshipps  will  think  it 
reasonable  to  bring  this  matter  to  a  speedy  Conclusion,  that  the 
Governor  may  not  long  lye  under  the  weight  of  so  heavy  a 
charge,  as  the  Comp.  by  the  memoriall  would  seem  to  lay  upon 
him.  ^ 

And  seeing  that  no  matter  of  truth  charged  in  this  memoriall 
is  of  that  weight  as  to  subject  the  Governor  (as  this  Respondent 
humbly  hopes),  either  to  her  Majesties  displeasure  or  your  Lord- 
shipps Censure,  that  your  Lordshipps  will  take  effectual  care  to 
prevent  the  mischief  that  may  ensue  to  that  Colony  by  counte- 
nancing the  complaints  of  Malitious  and  ill-designing  persons 
against  one  that  hath  always  by  his  actions  shown  himself  a 
Loyall  subject  to  the  Queene,  and  carefull  and  industrious  in 
discharge  of  the  trust  reposed  in  him  as  Governor  of  the  Colony 
of  Virginia. 

This  Respondent  begs  leave  to  observe  to  yo'  Lord'pps  that 
the  name,  Robert  Carter,  subscribed  to  the  said  Memoriall  bears 
no  resemblance  or  similitude  to  his  usuall  way  of  writing  his 
name,  which  gives  it  great  suspicion  that  the  said  Robert  Car- 
ter's name  is  not  his  own  proper  handwriting.  All  which  con- 
sidered, the  Respondent  finds  himself  enabled,  as  he  is  advised 
by  his  Council,  to  defend  and  justify  her  Ma'ties  Governour  ot 
Virginia  in  all  things  relating  to  his  administracon  of  publick 
affairs  in  her  Ma' ties  service.  But  for  as  much  as  many  scanda- 
lous aspersions  are  charged  on  the  Governor  by  private  letters, 
affidavits  of  his  profest  adversaries  and  accusers,  and  by  indirect 
insinuacons,  of  which  the  said  governor  could  not  possibly  have 
any  notice,  the  complainants  having  kept  secret  their  accusations, 
which  they  ought  to  have  published  in  order  to  the  Governor's 
answer  there  upon:  It  is  humbly  submitted  to  your  Lordshipps 
whether  you*l  be  pleased  to  proceed  imediately  upon  a  hearing 
with  an  expectation  only  of  such  proofs  as  the  Respondent  may 
be  profed  capable  of  procuring  from  the  nature  of  the  defense, 
or  that  your  Lordshipps  will  order  copies  of  everything  to  be 
first  transmitted  to  Virginia,  that  the  Governor  may  thereupon, 
by  affidavit  or  otherwise,  make  his  answer  and  just  defense: 
wherein  your  Lordshipp's  directions  shall  be  readily  obeyed  by 


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the  Governor  and  Yo.  Lord'pps  most  obedient  and  most  humble 

serv't, 

John  Thrale. 


The  Severall  Sources  of  the  Odium  and  Discourage- 
ment WHICH  THE  College  of  Wm..&  Mary  in  Virginia  lyes 
under,  and  the  Resolucon  of  Head  Master  of  the  Grammar 
School  thereupon,  Anno  Dom.  1704. 

The  College  of  Wm.  &  Mary  in  Virginia  (through  an  odium 
it  has  lyne  under  ever  since  the  Charter  was  brought  in)  has  not 
as  yet  arrived  to  any  greater  perfection  than  a  Gramar  School. 
There  be  several  sources  whence  this  odium  had  its  Originall,  as 
(i)  The  Prejudices  of  the  former  Collectors  of  the  penny  p.  lb. 
before  it  was  given  to  the  College,  for  these  Gent*,  finding  that 
the  current  of  that  money  was  directed  from  their  Coffers  into 
another  channell  by  being  given  to  the  College,  began  personally 
to  Intertain  an  odium  ag*  it,  and  being  all  of  the  Counsell  and 
Coll"  of  the  County,  the  little  people  that  depended  on  them, 
began  to  write  after  their  coppy,  others  (but  without  any  reason) 
are  angry  at  the  place  where  the  College  is  situated,  w*"*  yet  is 
absolutely  the  best  of  the  whole  Country;  but  it  faires  with  the 
college  in  this  point  as  with  Towns — every  one  would  have  One 
in  his  Own  County  and  neighborhood,  and  yet  the  College  can 
be  but  in  one  place;  and  if  it  had  been  in  another  place,  others 
would  have  had  as  much  to  say  ag'  that.  Others  are  Enemies 
to  it  on  the  Acct.  of  their  subscriptions  toward  it,  for  his  ExcelK 
(when  Lieut. -Govern')  having  issued  forth  a  Breife  for  subscrip- 
tion toward  a  College  to  oblige  and  curry  favour  with  his  ExcelK 
the  principall  promoter  of  it,  others  hoping  &  supposing  it  would 
come  to  nothing  and  others  for  Comp'*  sake  that  they  might  not 
be  thought  singular  or  enemies  to  so  good  a  worke,  putt  their 
hand  to  the  Briefe  and  could  never  be  reconciled  to  the  college 
since.  But  a  4th  source  and  which  has  done  the  college  most 
mischiefe  than  all  the  rest,  is  Mr.  Blaire*s  demanding  and  taking 
his  full  salary  as  President  all  this  while  when  the  College  had 
been  noe  more  But  a  Grammar  School,  by  which  means  the  Mas- 
ter &  Usher  &  Writing  Master  had  much  adoe  (when  Mr.  Blair 
went  last  for  England)  to  gett  any  more  than  halfe  Sallary  for 


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that  yeare,  and  this  is  the  only  reason  why  wee  have  had  not 
any  more  of  the  6  masters,  for  while  the  p*sident  carryd  away 
yearly  150'**  and  there  remained  noe  more  money  than  will  barely 
pay  the  Master  and  Usher  and  Writing  Master,  which  in  the 
above  named  yeare  came  very  short  even  of  that,  we  can  never 
expect  to  have  any  more  masters,  for  as  noe  money,  no  Swizer, 
so  noe  Sallary,  no  master. 

But  notwithstanding  that  the  College  is  the  only  contrivance 
by  which  Mr.  Blaire  hath  gott  both  all  his  gains  and  his  Grandeur, 
hee  has  not  stuck  of  late  to  strike  at  all  to  serve  a  turne — the 
Schools,  the  Master,  the  college  itself  must  all  fall  a  sacrifice 
rather  than  a  designe  of  Turning  out  the  Govern'  (tho*  the  great 
patron  and  promoter  of  it  &  best  friend  yt  that  ever  it  had  went 
to  King  William  &  Queen  Mary  and  her  p*sent  Maj''),  should 
miscarry  not  that  he  designed  the  ruin  of  the  college  for  good 
for  it  is  by  it  hee  getts  all  his  gains.  But  hee  has  endeavored  to 
ruin  the  schools  (which  is  all  the  college  at  present)  by  taking 
away  his  owne  Brother's  son  from  it  and  soe  breaking  the  Ice 
for  Six  more  of  his  party  who  all  and  only  they  took  their  sonns 
away  from  schools  after  his  laudable  example,  that  he  and  they 
might  have  it  to  say  that  the  Govern'  had  not  interest  enough 
to  keep  it  up  and  that  it  could  not  be  a  schoole  nor  a  College 
without  Mr.  Blaire,  hee  being  then  in  England  (affidaviting  ag* 
his  Exc^),  when  he  writ  to  his  lady  to  take  his  Brother's  sonns 
from  the  College.  This  proceeding  of  Mr.  Blaire  &  his  partys 
of  making  a  stalking  horse  of  the  College  was  understood  by 
me  to  such  a  degree  that  I  had  much  adoe  to  prevail  w***  myself 
to  continue  my  charge  after  such  Discouragm't,  but  that  I  was 
resolved  to  counterplott  those  men  of  Designe  and  so  stand  by 
his  Exe'  the  great  Mecanas  of  ye  college,  of  whom  it  may  be 
said  as  of  the  Emperour  in  Juvenall,  **  Et  Spedet  Ratio  Studio- 
rum,  &c."  Mr.  Blaire  was  never  quiete  nor  easy  until  wee  had 
our  present  good  Gove'  and  kindly  nursing  father  as  he  was 
wont  formerly  to  call  him  and  yett  is  now  doing  all  that  he  can 
to  gett  him  removed,  from  which  reason  the  Master  following 
the  wise  man's  advice  is  not  medling  w"*  y"  that  are  given  to 
change,  is  resolved  that  he  will  have  noe  more  to  do  with  the 
College  whenever  his  Ex'^  leaves  the  country.  Mr.  Blair  has 
shott  at  his  Ex*"^  through  my  Body,  and  I  am  Resolved  to  see 


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what  he  will  make  of  the  College  without  his  Exc*'  or  any  of 
her  Govermts.  whome  she  pleased.  But  I  may  without  either 
flattery  or  ostentation,  say  that  if  her  Maj*  should  send  us  a  new 
Goverm';  Every  fleet,  we  can  never  have  any  that  will  do  so 
much  either  for  the  country  or  the  college,  the  church  or  the 
clergy,  which  together  have  cost  his  Exc''  Some  thousands  of 
pounds  Ster.,  and  of  which  Mr.  Blair  has  had  a  considerable 
share,  and  since  ingratitude  is  so  hainous  a  sinn  (being  as  unpar- 
donable in  morality  as  the  sinn  ag*  the  Holy  Ghost  is  in  Divinity) 
I  am  resolved  to  have  noe  more  to  do  with  such  a  man  and  will 
noe  longer  bee  a  member  of  the  Body  or  Corporation  of  which 
he  is  the  head.  Besides  I  am  none  of  Mr.  Blaire's  party  and 
can  never  expect  to  live  easy  in  his  society.  Moreover  the  mat- 
ter is  gone  to  farr  to  be  revoked.  I  have  both  given  it  out  here 
and  have  write  fore  England  to  some  of  the  best  quality  that  I 
am  resolved  to  quitt  the  college  if  his  Exe^,  the  great  patron  of 
it  was  removed  by  Mr.  Blaire's  meanes  and  I  am  not  one  that 
will  give  myself  the  lye.  I  am  not  apt  to  resolve  but  on  mature 
deliberation  and  am  satisfied  that  I  have  good  reasons  for  what 
I  doe.  I  do  not  understand  the  Turning  of  a  good  Design  into 
Bad  use.  a  design  of  Breeding  up  youth  in  learning  and  virtue 
and  all  commendable  Qualities  into  a  stalking  horse  to  serve  a 
tume  upon  occasion,  or  to  enrich  a  particular  man  and  to  carry 
on  the  designs  of  a  party.  My  Soul  come  not  than  into  their 
secrets  and  unto  their  Assembly. 
Mine  honour  be  not  than  United. 

M.  I.     [Mungo  Ingles.]* 


[Minutes  of  Council.] 

At  a  Councill  held  at  her  Maj'^'  Royall  College  of  William  & 
Mary  ye  8th  February,  1704. 

Present:  His  Excellency,  John  Lightfoot,*  Benj'  Harrison,  Robt. 
Carter,  Philip  Ludwell,  William  Bassett,'  Henry  Duke,*  and 
John  Smith,*  Esqs. 

His  Excell*'  was  pleased  to  take  notice  to  Collo.  John  Light- 
foot,  that  he  observed  just  now  that  he  said  something  on  occasion 
of  his  Excell*'"  nominating  Jno.  Lewis,*  Esqr.,  to  be  the  Councill. 


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Whereupon  Collo.  Lightfoot  niade  answer  that  what  he  said 
was  that  in  the  time  of  S'  Ed*^  Andros's  Government,  when 
Coll.  EHggs  was  nominated  of  the  Councill'  Sir  Ed**  asked  ad- 
vice of  the  Councill  w^  of  the  three  Gentlemen  then  named,  viz: 
Coll*  Diggs,  Coll*  Carter,  &  Coll*  Page,  should  be  appointed  of 
the  Councill  &  Collo.  Digges '  was  thereupon  elected. 

Upon  w^  his  Excell'^  called  for  ye  Joumall  of  ye  Councill  at 
that  time,  and  the  same  was  read  bearing  date  the  15th  day  ot 
October,  1698,  and  is  as  foil.,  (viz):  *'  His  Excellency  was  pleased 
to  move  this  day  in  Councill  that  there  being  a  vacancy  in  ye 
Councill  whether  there  was  not  an  absolute  &  immediate  neces- 
sity of  supplying  thereof:  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  board  that 
this  vacancy  be  forth w**  supplyed.  His  Excell*^  thereupon  was 
pleased  to  name  Maj'  Dudley  Digges,  w**  was  to  the  great  satis- 
faction of  the  Councill. 

February  9th,  1704-5. 

His  Excell*'  commanded  it  to  be  entered  on  this  Journal  that 
what  Coll.  Lightfoot  said  yesterday  in  Councill  in  relation  to 
Coll*  Digges  his  being  appointed  of  the  Councill  in  Sr.  Edm* 
Andros'  time  doth  not  agree  w**"  the  Journal  of  that  time,  And 
was  also  pleased  to  tell  the  s"*  Coll*  Lightfoot  that  it  was  through 
his  Excell*''  means  that  he  the  s**  Coll.  Lightfoot  was  of  the 
councill,  &  admitted  afterwards  when  Sir  Edm*  Andros  de- 
nyed  him  and  that  if  it  had  been  left  to  the  councill  here  to  name 
him,  he  would  never  have  been  named  in  that  station.  And 
Coll.  Lightfoot  owned  that  his  Excell*'  did  recommend  him  to 
S'  Ed"*  Andros.  from  my  Lord  Pembroke. 

Upon  w*"  his  Excell'''  was  pleased  to  say  that  he  owned  him- 
self Extraordinarily  obliged  to  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  beyond 
his  Hopes  or  Deserts. 

Coll*  Carter  desired  that  what  he  s*  yesterday  in  confirmation 
of  what  was  spoke  by  Coll*  Lightfoot  may  be  likewise  inserted 
here,  w*'"  was  that  soon  after  Coll*  Digges  was  made  a  councel- 
lor,  Coll*  Wormeley  &  he  thinks  Secretary  Wormely  (when  they 
came  home  from  the  Gen"  Court  that  time)  told  him  that  bad  it 
not  been  for  his  living  at  such  a  Distance,  there  would  have  been 
an  express  sent  to  him  to  have  come  to  Councill  in  order  to  his 
being  appointed  one  of  the  board. 

Will.  Robertson,'  Clk.  Cour. 


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Memorandum  at  a  Councill  held  ye  8th  July,  1698.  Mr.  Sam- 
uell  Griffin  was  nominated  to  be  Navall  officer  &  collector  of  the 
Lower  District  of  Potowmak  River  in  ye  room  of  Coll*  Christo- 
pher Wormeley,  then  lately  Dec**.  Maj'  Dudley  Digges  was 
sworne  of  the  Councill  ye  17th  of  October,  1698,  and  Mr.  Sec- 
retary Wormeley  is  not  mentioned  to  be  at  Councill  till  ye  20th 
of  the  s**  month. 

Test:        WiL.  Robertson,  CI.  Cour. 

Memorandum.  Coll*  Digges  was  made  councellor  in  ye  room 
of  Coll*  Wormeley. 

At  a  Council  held  at  her  Maty*s  Royal  College  of  William 
&  Mary,  february  loth,  1704. 

Present:  His  Excellency  in  council. 

Upon  reading  a  letter  from  the  Right  hon****  the  Lords  Comm" 
for  trade  and  Plantations,  dated  the  17th  of  August  last.  Signi- 
fying that  there  being  some  Informations  come  to  them  by  the 
last  ships  of  great  heats  expressed  by  his  Excellency  against 
private  persons  for  matters  that  are  or  have  been  in  difference  or 
contest  between  his  Excell*'  and  such  person  or  persons.  Their 
Lordships  think  it  for  her  Maj****  Service  &  the  quiet  of  the 
province  that  his  Excell*'  forbear  (and  discontinue  if  begun)  any 
personal  Resentment,  prosecution  or  Molestation  whatsoever 
upon  his  own  ace*  against  any  person  concerned  in  these  Com- 
plaints while  ye  said  Complaints  against  him  are  depending  and 
unless  her  Majesty  have  determined  thereupon.  His  Excell*'  was 
pleased  to  say  as  follows  &  ordered  it  to  be  entered  here,  viz: 

**  I  think  myself  obliged  in  duty  to  obey  their  Lordp*  com- 
mands, but  I  know  of  no  process  that  I  have  commenced  ag' 
any  of  those  Gentlemen  who  have  complained  ag*  me,  nor  do  I 
design  lU  There  was  a  process  ordered  ag*  Mr.  Edm*  Berkley 
of  Gloucester,  but  out  of  the  great  respect  and  esteem  I  have 
for  his  wife  on  the  Ace'  of  her  vertue  &  her  other  good  accom- 
plishments, I  made  a  proposal  to  her  w***  if  she  pleases  to  accept 
of,  I  think  there  will  be  no  occasion  of  sending  the  proceedings 
into  England,  but  if  she  do  not  then  I  will  order  them  to  be 
sent,  and  no  further  proceedings  shall  be  made  against  him  upon 


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my  own  ace*  till  I  receive  their  Lordp'  order.  There  is  a  pro- 
cess taken  out  last  Gen"  Court  ag*  Mr.  Jno.  Munro  w**  I  shall 
give  order  it  shall  not  be  further  prosecuted  till  I  receive  their 
Lordp*  further  commands  therein,  tho  with  humble  submission 
to  their  Lordp'  great  Jud**ment.  I  don't  think  those  cases  come 
under  their  Lordp'  order;  but  I  shall  always  esteem  it  as  a  hap- 
piness that  any  such  affair  may  come  before  their  Lordp',  for 
never  did  in  the  least  doubt  but  their  Lordp*  would  do  me  Jus- 
tice as  they  have  hitherto  always  done.  I  most  humbly  beg  of 
their  Lordp*  that  what  complaints  have  been  or  shall  be  made 
ag'  me,  may  come  under  ye  same  determination  as  the  rest  have 
done  &  her  most  sacred  Majestye  Royal  commands  &  wishes  if 
their  Lordp'  shall  be  to  be  obeyed  by  me. 
Virginia.  Test:        Will.  Robertson,  CI.  Cur. 

Whitehall,  August  the  17th,  1704. 
Sir, — Whereas  we  have  already  acquainted  you  that  upon  our 
Report  to  her  Majesty  relating  to  the  Complaints  made  by  sev- 
erall  of  the  principall  Inhabitants  of  Virginia  against  your  pro- 
ceedings and  behavior  in  the  Government  of  that  Colony,  her 
Majesty  has  been  pleased  to  direct  that  you  return  your  answer 
to  all  the  s*  complaints,  papers  and  affidavits  whereof  the  Copies 
have  been  accordingly  sent  you,  and  there  being  some  informa- 
tions come  to  us  by  the  last  shipps  of  great  heats  expressed  by 
you  ag"*  private  persons  for  matters  that  are  or  have  been  indif- 
ference or  contest  between  you  and  such  person  or  persons.  We 
do  further  think  it  for  her  Mat'ys  Service  and  the  quiett  of  the 
Province  that  you  forbear  (and  discontinue  if  begun)  any  personall 
resentment,  persecution  or  molestation  what  soever  upon  your 
owne  account  agt.  any  person  concerned  in  these  Complaints, 
whilst  the  s**  complaints  ag^  you  are  depending  and  untill  her 
Majs*'  have  determined  thereupon,  so  we'll  bid  you  heartily 
farewell.  Yr.  Very  loving  friends. 

Ph.  Meadows, 
Wm.  Blaithwaite, 
Math.  Prior. 
Examined  by:    C.  C,  Dept.  Sect. 

(Endorsed);  Copy  of  Ire.  from  Lords  of  trade  concerning  the 
Gov's  persecution  of  particular  persons,  and  his  Ex'^  declaration 
in  Council  thereon. 


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At  the  Court  of  Hampton  Court  the  15th  day  of  June, 
1704. 

Present:  The  Queens  most  Excellent  Ma*'**  in  Councill. 

Upon  reading  this  day  at  the  Board  a  Report  from  the  Lords 
Commissioners  for  trade  and  Plantations  upon  the  Petition  of  six 
of  the  Principall  Inhabitants  of  Virginia,  who  of  Her  Ma*^*  Coun- 
cell  there  Complaining  of  the  proceedings  and  behavior  of  Colonel 
Nicholson,  Her  Ma*''  Governor  of  that  Colony  referred  to  s*d 
Lords  Comm"  by  an  order  of  this  Board  the  13th  of  March  last. 
Her  Ma''*  is  pleased  to  order  that  the  said  Colonel  Nicholson  do 
return  his  answer  thereunto  and  to  all  the  other  Papers  and  affi- 
davits presented  to  the  said  Lords  Comm"  relating  to  the  said 
Complaints,  copy  whereof  they  are  to  transmit  unto  him  for  that 
purpose. 

A  true  copy:        John  Povev. 
(to  be  continued.) 


NOTES. 


*Rev.  Mungo  Ingles,  of  Scotland,  born  1657,  died  1719;  was 
selected  by  Dr.  Blair  in  1693,  to  be  first  master  of  the  Grammar 
School  of  William  and  Mary  College.  He  served  from  1694  to 
1705,  when  he  took  sides  with  Governor  Nicholson  and  resigned. 
In  17 16  he  was  re-elected.  He  was  one  of  the  first  feoffees  of 
Williamsburg  and  a  justice  of  James  City  county.  He  married, 
in  Virginia,  Anne,  daughter  of  Colonel  James  Bray  of  the  Coun- 
cil and  Angelica  his  wife,  and  had  three  daughters,  and  a  son 
James,  who  married  Anne  Marot,  and  had  an  only  child  Judith 
Bray  Ingles,  who  married  William  Armistead.  (  William  & 
Mary  Quarterly ^  VI.  88-89)  ^^  the  same  volume  pp.  87-88,  is 
a  letter  from  Mungo  Ingles,  to  the  rector  and  visitors  of  the  col- 
lege, written  in  1704. 

•John  Lightfoot,  son  of  John  Lightfoot,  Esq.,  of  Grays  Inn, 
barrister-at-law,  and  brother  of  Philip  Lightfoot.  who  also  emi- 
grated to  Virginia,  was  appointed  by  the  King,  on  June  10,  1670, 
Auditor-General  of  Virginia;  but  as  it  was  found  that  the  rever- 
sion of  the  office  had  been  granted  to  Edward  Digges,  the  grant 
was  \*ithdrawn.  He  was  appointed  to  the  Council  in  1695.  <*"^ 
held  the  office  until  his  death.  May  28,  1707,  at  which  time  he 


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was  also  County  Lieutenant  of  King  and  Queei>,  He  married 
in  or  before  1681,  Anne,  daughter  of  Thos.  Goodrich,  of  Rappa- 
hannock county  (Bacon's  Lieutenant-General  in  1675),  and  was 
ancestor  of  the  Lightfoots  of  Orange,  New  Kent,  &c.  The 
William  (Sf  Mary  Quarterly  II,  91-97,  204-207,  259-262;  III, 
104-111,  contains  a  genealogy  of  the  families  descended  from 
the  emigrant  brothers;  but  from  lack  of  data  the  account  of  the 
descendants  of  Colonel  John  Lightfoot  is  incomplete.  The  fol- 
lowing notes  contain  some  information  in  addition  to  that  pub- 
lished. Thos.  Walker  Lightfoot,  clerk  of  Culpeper  county,  died 
March  6,  1831.  Francis  Lightfoot,  chosen  clerk  of  Culpeper 
1 83 1.  Captain  John  Lightfoot,  member  James  City  county 
Committee  of  Safety  1774-75.  D*"-  Philip  L.  Lightfoot,  of  Ala- 
bama, and  Mary  Virginia  Smith,  of  Virginia,  married  in  1838. 
Francis  T.  Lightfoot,  clerk  of  Culpeper.  died  April  13,  1839, 
aged  30  years.  Ellen  B. ,  daughter  of  Philip  Lightfoot,  married 
in  1830,  Dr.  Carter  L.  Wormeley.  Philip  Lightfoot,  of  **  Cedar 
Creek,'*  Caroline  county,  was  lieutenant  in  Harrison's  artillery 
in  the  Revolution,  and  had  an  only  child  Philip  Lightfoot,  who 
was  livng  at  Port  Royal,  Caroline,  in  1834  (  Va,  Rev,  Bounty 
Records).  Mildred,  daughter  of  *'the  late  Colonel  William 
Lightfoot,  of  Charles  City  county,'*  married,  in  1767,  Walter 
Coles,  of  Halifax  county.  William  Lightfoot,  of  Culpeper 
county,  captain  of  Virginia  Militia  in  service  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War  in  1758.  William  Lightfoot,  member  of  the  House 
of  Delegates  from  James  City  county  1799- 1800,  1805-6. 

In  the  records  of  Brunswick  is  the  will  of  John  Lightfoot,  ot 
St.  Andrews  Parish,  in  that  county  (a  son  of  Hon.  Philip  Light- 
foot of  the  Council),  dated  April  20,  and  proved  November  6, 
1 75 1.  He  leaves  his  wife  Molly,  all  the  tract  of  land  he  bought 
of  Mr.  Thos.  Eldridge;  the  land  bought  of  James  Speed;  the 
land  bought  of  William  Wyche;  his  lots  in  the  **City  of  Wil- 
liams," where  Dr.  Hay  then  dwelt;  ;^i,ooo  current  money  (if  so 
much  remained  after  payment  of  debts),  his  chariot  and  horses; 
his  small  chair  and  his  chariot  harness.  To  brother  William 
Lightfoot,  ;^3,ooo  current;  brother  Armistead  Lightfoot,  ;^i,ooo 
current;  to  James,  son  of  Nathaniel  Bacon  Burwell,  dec'd,  ;^250 
current;  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  N.  B.  Burwell,  dec'd.  ;^250 
current;  to  his  (J.  L's)  wife  all  stocks  of  cattle,  horses,  &c. ;  to 


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James  Clack,  all  the  money  he  owed  testator;  to  Betty,  Dolly 
and  Sally,  daughters  of  James  Clack,  £250  current  to  be  divided 
between  them;  to  Eldridge  Clack  ;^200  current;  to  John,  son  of 
James  Clack,  the  money  he  owed  testator;  to  William,  son  of 
James  Clack,  £^$0  current;  to  Stirling  Thornton,  Sr.,  ;^20o 
current;  to  William  Thornton,  Sr.,  of  Gloucester  county,  ;^i75 
current.  His  brother  William  Lightfoot,  Lewis  Burwell,  of 
Gloucester,  and  William  and  Thomas  Nelson,  executors. 

In  the  same  county  is  the  will  of  Mary  Lightfoot,  dated  May 
14,  1783,  and  proved  October,  24,  1785.  Her  legatees  are  her 
daughters  Patty,  Sally,  Elimine,  and  Becky  Lightfoot,  and  her 
sons  Philip  and  Thomas  Lightfoot.  Neither  she  nor  her  children 
appear  in  the  published  pedigree. 

•William  Bassett,  born  1670,  died  October  11,  1723,  was  son 
of  Captain  William  Bassett,  of  the  county  of  Southampton^ 
England,  and  afterwards  of  New  Kent  county,  Virginia,  who  had 
been  an  officer  in  the  English  Army;  and  was  himself  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  and  of  the  Council  for  1707.  For 
genealogy  of  the  Bassett  family  see  Keith's  Ancestry  of  Benja- 
min Harrison;  for  offices  held  by  various  members  of  the 
family  see  this  Magazine  II,  231-232,  and  letters  written  to  Cap- 
tain William  Bassett,  in  1670,  id.  I,  453-456. 

The  tomb  of  Colonel  William  Bassett,  of  the  Council,  formerly 
at  *'Eltham,**  New  Kent,  but  now  removed  to  Hollywood  ceme- 
tery, Richmond,  bears  the  Bassett  arms  {or,  three  bars  wavy 
gules)  and  the  following  epitaph : 

**  Here  lies  inter*d  ye  Body  of  ye  Hon*ble 

William  Bassett,  of  ye  County  of  New  Kent, 

Esq'r,  son  of  Will'm  Bassett,  Esq'r,  and 

Bridget,  His  Wife,  of  ye  County  of 

Southampton,  in  ye  Kingdom  of  England. 

He  married  Joanna,  Eldest  Daughter 

Of  Lewis  Burwell,  Esq.,  with  whom 

He  happily  Lived  29  years  and  10  months 

And  was  Blest  with  5  sons  and  7  Daughters. 

He  Departed  this  Life  ye  11  of  October, 

1723,  in  ye  53d  year  of  his  Age.     He 

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An  Affectionate,  Obliging  Husband,  A  Good 

Master:    His  Loss  was 

Greatly  Lamented  by  His  Country, 

County,  and  Family,  and  inexpressibly  to 

His  Mournful,  Disconsolate  Widow, 

who  also  departed  this  Life  ye  7th  day 

of  October,   1727,  in  the 

53d  year  of  her  age.** 

*  Henry  Duke,  of  James  City  county,  was  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses  in  1692  and  1699,  ^^s  appointed  to  the 
Council  in  1702,  and  died  about  January,  17 13-14  {Sainsdury's 
Abstracts),  In  1692  he  had  at  least  one  son.  James  Duke,  who 
was  a  justice  of  James  City  county  in  1710,  and  sheriff  in  1719, 
was  probably  a  son,  and  Henry  Duke,  appointed  justice  of  Prince 
George  171 2,  probably  another.  The  inventory  of  the  estate  of 
Captain  Henry  Duke,  deceased,  was  recorded  in  Prince  George 
January,  17 18.     Elizabeth  Duke  was  his  administratrix. 

*John  Smith,  of  Abingdon  parish,  Gloucester  county,  son  of 
Colonel  Lawrence  Smith,  of  the  same  county,  was  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Burgesses  1685;  of  the  Council  about  1706;  in  the 
last  named  year  appointed  County  Lieutenant  of  Gloucester,  and 
in  1707  of  King  and  Queen  {Sainsbury  Abstracts),  He  married 
Elizabeth  (died  1704),  daughter  of  John  Cox,  of  Virginia,  and 
his  wife.  Arabella,  daughter  of  William  Strachey,  of  Virginia, 
and  granddaughter  of  William  Strachey,  of  Sutton  Court, 
Somerset,  England  (  William  &  Mary  Quarterly,  IV,  192-194), 
and  dying  in  1719-20,  left  a  son,  Lawrence  Smith,  who  was  a 
Burgess  for  Gloucester  in  1736,  and  who  in  turn  left  a  son  and 
heir,  Lawrence  Smith,  who,  in  1753,  was  authorized  by  the 
Assembly  to  sell  his  entailed  lands  in  Gloucester  for  4,000  acres 
in  Spotsylvania  and  ;^450  sterling. 

•John  Lewis,  of  **  Warner  Hall,**  Gloucester,  son  of  John 
and  Isabella  Lewis,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress 
of  Colonel  Augustine  Warner.  Jr.,  of  **  Warner  Hall,**  and  had 
issue  (i)  John,  of  '*  Warner  Hall,**  also  member  of  the  Council, 
probably  born  1694;  (2)  Charles,  of  **The  Byrd,**  Goochland 
county,  born  1696;  (3)  Robert,  of  **  Bel  voir,**  Albemarle  county, 
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taphs  of  Colonel  John  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Warner)  Lewis,  from 
the  tombs  at  **  Warner  Hall/'  have  been  printed  m  the  William 
<2r*  Mary  Quarterly,  II,  227. 

'Dudley  Digges,  of  **  Bellfield,*'  York  county,  son  of  Gov- 
ernor Edward  Digges,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Dudley  Digges,  was 
appointed  to  the  Council  in  1698,  and  Auditor  and  Surveyor- 
General  in  1705  {Sainsbury  Abstracts),  He  married  Susannah, 
daughter  of  William  Cole,  Secretary  of  State  of  the  Colony, 
and  died  January  18,  17 10.  The  Digges  epitaphs  from  **  Bell- 
field  *'  have  been  published  in  Virginia  Historical  Society  Col- 
lections, Vol.  XI,  and  a  genealogy  of  the  Digges  family  in 
IPilliam  (Sf  Mary  Quarterly,  Vol.  I. 

•William  Robertson,  long  clerk  of  the  Council,  died  in  1739, 
and  had  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married,  in  1738,  John  Lid- 
derdale,  of  Williamsburg. 


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By  John  Redd,  Henry  county,  Va. 


[We  are  indebted  to  Miss  Florence  E.  Baker  of  the  Wisconsin 
Historical  Society  for  the  following  copy  of  a  letter  from  Major 
Redd  to  Dr.  Draper,  which  was  not  included  in  the  manuscript 
in  our  collection.  It  is  in  the  Draper  Collection,  Vol.  10,  pp. 
134-137,  Wisconsin  Historical  Society  Collection.] 

Henry  Co.  Ho.,  13th  June,  1850. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  communication  of  Jan.  last  was  duly  received;  but 
owing  to  the  feebleness  of  my  health  I  have  been  unable  to  ans- 
wer it  sooner.  I  will  endeavor  to  reply  to  your  questions  in  the 
order  in  which  they  are  proposed. 

1st.  Of  Walker's  line  of  1763,  I  can  give  you  no  other  infor- 
mation than  that  in  my  last, 
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2nd.  The  information  I  obtained  respecting  the  Robcamp 
was  furnished  me  by.  Wm.  Carr,  of  whom  I  gave  an  account 
in  my  last.  I  hardly  think  that  either  of  the  names  you  men- 
tioned, were  of  the  parties  that  were  robbed. 

3d.  The  remains  of  the  old  camp  I  saw  in  Powell's  Valley, 
were  on  its  north  side;  and  as  well  as  my  memory  serves  me, 
were  within  forty  or  fifty  yards  of  the  mouth  of  Waldin's  creek 
at  the  ford  across  Powell's  river.  The  camp  was  built  by  the 
side  of  a  large  lime  stone  rock  about  three  feet  high,  and  a  part 
of  which  served  for  the  back  of  the  camp.  The  names  of  the 
persons,  whose  bones  I  saw  there  I  should  be  unable  to  accurately 
distinguish,  were  I  to  hear  them.  This  may  possibly  be  the  camp 
pitched  by  Boon's  war  party.  The  bones  I  saw  were  not  known 
certainly  to  be  those  of  the  two  long  hunters,  but  were  thought 
to  be  from  the  circumstance  of  two  long  hunters,  having  gone 
on  a  hunt  in  Powell's  valley  in  1773,  who  had  not  returned. 

4th.  Gen'l  Sumpter's  Mother  was  a  Widow  when  I  first 
knew  her;  which  was  when  I  was  quite  a  small  boy.  When  I 
left,  Orange  county  in  1774,  the  Old  Lady  was  then  living.  I 
think  she  lived  several  years  afterward,  and  died  in  Orange. 
I  know  nothing  of  Gen'l  Sumpter's  boyhood  days,  nor  of  his 
father.  His  education  was  only  such  as  could  be  obtained  in  his 
day,  at  neighborhood  schools.  I  don't  know  when  or  whom  he 
married;  I  think  th**  he  married  some  Lady  of  South  Carolina. 
During  the  latter  part  of  the  revolution  his  Bro.  Wm.  moved  to 
S.  Carolina.     I  don't  know  what  finally  became  of  him. 

5th.  The  Grand- Parents  of  Col.  Cleveland  died  about  1770. 
I  dont  recollect  their  given  names.  The  Father  of  Co*  Cleve- 
land was  named  John .     He  &  wife  were  living  in  1774. 

How  much  longer  they  lived  I  dont  know.  I  neyer  knew  the 
Clevelands  claimed  descent  from  Oliver  Cromwell. 

Clasby  &  Smith  who  married  two  of  Co'  Cleveland's  Sisters 
were  men  of  but  little  note.  Franklin  who  married  the  other, 
was  a  man  of  very  fine  standing  in  County.  I  dont  know  what 
became  of  Clasby.  Smith  moved  to  Kentucky.  Franklin  moved 
to  Surry  O  H",  N.  C,  settled  on  Mitchells  river,  and  lived  there 
untill  his  death.  He  raised  a  large  family  of  children,  some  of 
whom  became  men  of  distinction.  Jesse  was  a  member  of  the 
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brother,  was  a  member  of  Congress  from  the  same  state  for  sev- 
eral years.  Abednego,  the  youngest,  emigrated  to  Georgia  and 
became  a  man  of  considerable  distinction. 

I  cant  give  you  any  of  the  particulars  of  Col.  Cleveland's 
forays  with  Torys  for  I  have  entirely  forgotten  them.  It  was  the 
latter  part  of  the  Revolution  when  Jesse  Franklin  made  such 
a  narrow  escape  from  being  hung  by  the  Torys.  The  Cap'  of 
The  Tory  party  was  Jos,  Lasefield.  The  greatest  intimacy  al- 
ways existed  between  Gen*  Martin,  Gen,  Sumpter  &  Col.  Cleve- 
land. They  were  very  wild  in  their  youthful  days.  Cleveland 
I  dont  think  was  hardly  as  wild  as  the  other  two.  I  recollect  a 
circumstance  which  not  only  shows  the  intimacy  between  Gen* 
Sumpter  &  Martin  &  their  fondness  for  pleasure,  but  also  Gen» 
Sumpter's  strict  honesty.  The  first  year  I  think  it  was  that 
Gen*  Sumppter  was  elected  to  Congress  from  S.  Carolina;  while 
on  his  way  to  Washington  he  stopped  at  Richmond.  As  soon 
as  he  stopped  at  a  hotel,  he  sent  up  to  the  capitol  for  Martin  & 
myself  who  were  members  of  the  Legislature  there.  He  was 
highly  pleased  at  meeting  with  us — particularly  his  old  compan- 
ion Martin,  whom  he  had  not  seen  for  some  twenty-five  years. 
They  called  each  other  by  the  familiar  names,  Joe  &  Tom.  Time 
passed  rapidly  &  pleasantly  while  they  talked  of  the  events  of 
their  youthful  days.  Just  before  Sumpter  started  (for  he  staid 
only  a  few  hours)  he  asked  Martin  if  he  recollected  the  last  frolic 
they  had  at  Johnson's.  Martin  said  that  they  had  really  had  so 
many  he  could  not.  Sumpter  said  he  recollected  it  well,  and 
should  never  forget  it,  for,  said  he,  I  lost  all  my  money  playing 
cards,  &  you  loaned  me  five  pounds.  Martin  said  he  had  no 
recollection  whatever  of  the  transaction,  and  Sumpter  must  be 
mistaken.  Sumpter  said  he  knew  he  owed  the  money,  and  put- 
ting his  hands  in  his  pockets,  he  pulled  out  ten  guineas  and  said 
he  should  take  it. 

6th.  Since  you  mentioned  the  name  of  Stevens,  it  sounds  like 
that  of  the  murderer  of  Bigbullet,  th*  I  can't  say  positively  it 
-was.     I  am  certain,  however,  it  was  King's  gun  that  was  used. 

7th.  I  don't  recollect  who  read  the  declaration  of  independence 
&  delivered  the  oration  at  the  celebration  of  4th  of  July,  1777, 
on  the  Hobtein  River. 


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8th.  Dan*l  Smith.  The  man  I  alluded  to  lived  on  Clinch 
river.  He  was  a  tailor,  for  I  recollect  very  well  he  made  me  a 
pair  of  leather  breeches.  He  was  very  fluent  in  conversation, 
very  genteel  in  his  appearance,  &  a  man  of  fine  sense,  &  appa- 
rently about  twenty-five  years  old;  he  may  possibly  be  the  man 
to  whom  you  allude. 

9th.  Sam*l  Newell,  in  1775  or  76,  when  I  saw  him,  appeared 
to  be  about  twenty-five  or  thirty  years  of  age;  had  no  children 
with  him.  It  seems  to  me  he  was  from  somewhere  on  New 
river,  in  the  western  part  of  this  state.  He  was  in  the  battle  of 
King's  mountain.  I  think,  &  after  the  war  was  called  Co'.  When 
I  knew  him  at  Martin's  Station  he  was  very  unpopular;  his 
veracity  was  often  impeached.  Newell  was  one  of  the  most 
conceited,  bigoted  men  I  ever  knew,  &  would  never  fail  to  tell 
a  plausible  tale  if  necessary  to  carry  his  point. 

loth.  The  MoRDECAi  Hoard  who  went  with  me  to  Ken- 
tucky was  the  Father  of  Co'  W"  Hoard. 

nth.  In  speaking  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Stockton,  I  spelt 
his  name  as  it  was  familiarly  called,  Stogland.  He  is  the  same 
man  you  speak  of.  I  don't  know  the  precise  locality  of  Gen' 
Greene's  camp;  it  was  somewhere  in  S.  C.  Stockton's  visit  to 
Gen'  Green's  camp,  I  think,  was  after  the  battle  of  Guilford,  in 
1781. 

1 2th.  CoL.  Gordon  was  superseded  as  Co'  of  Pittsylvania 
under  the  new  order  of  things  that  took  place  in  the  beginning 
of  the  revolution.  I  don't  know  whether  it  was  owing  to  his 
old  age  or  because  he  was  not  sufficiently  American  in  his  feel- 
ings. He  w^  born  in  Scotland,  and  I  don't  think  he  ever  saw 
any  military  service.  He  was  rather  below  the  ordinary  height; 
coarse  features.  By  those  who  knew  him  he  was  regarded  very 
honest  &  correct  in  all  of  his  transactions. 

13th.  I  am  pretty  well  satisfied  that  Boone  &  Logan  were 
members  of  the  legislature  in  1780,  but  cannot  say  positively  as 
to  the  year  1781. 

14th.  Eaton's  fort  was  situated  about  seven  miles  east  from 
the  long  island  of  Holstein,  The  battle  ground  where  Cock's 
men  gained  the  victory  over  the  Indians  was  about  a  mile  & 
half  on  the  trace  leading  to  Eaton's  fort  &  fort  Cheswell.     It 


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went  by  the  name  of  **  the  sink  hole  battle,**  in  consequence  of 
there  being  several  sink  holes  there. 

15th.  To  the  best  of  my  recollection,  the  first  creek  beginning 
at  Cumberland  gap  is  **Indian*s  creek** — the  largest  in  the  valley. 
The  next  is  **  Martin*s  creek  ** — from  Gen'  Jo"  Martin.  Indian's 
and  Martin's  creek  head  within  some  three  or  four  miles  of  each 
other.  The  next  creek  is  '*  Yellow  Creek.**  These  are  the 
only  creeks  of  any  note  between  the  Cumberland  gap  and  the 
ford  of  Powell's  river.  These  creeks  flow  in  a  southern  direction 
pretty  much.  Yellow  creek  empties  into  Powell*  s  river  about  4 
miles  below  the  forde;  Walden's  creek  just  at  the  ford  on  its 
south  side.  The  camp  I  found  the  bones  at  was  not  more  than 
fifty  yards  from  the  ford  of  the  river;  it  is  eight  or  ten  miles 
from  Martin's  Station  at  the  mouth  of  Walden's  creek. 

I  have,  I  believe,  to  best  of  my  information,  answered  all  your 
questions — such  as  I  have  been  able  to  do.  My  age,  I  take 
pleasure  in  saying,  95  25th  Oct.  next  &  I  feel  the  effects  of 
very  sensibly.  Wishing  you  much  success  in  your  undertaking, 
&  thanking  you  for  the  kind  wishes  you  express  for  me,  I  remain. 

Your  obdns.  serv*t. 

John  Redd. 
Lyman  C,  Draper. 

Memo, — Maj*r  Redd  died  about  August,  1850.  See  p.  176 
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RICHMOND  DURING  THE  WAR  OF  i8ia. 

(continued.) 


Letters  of  Dr.  Thomas  Massie. 


^From  the  Massie  Papers,  Virginia  Historical  Society  Collection.) 


[The  letters  from  which  extracts  are  here  printed  were  written 
in  1 813  and  18 14,  by  Dr.  Thomas  Massie,  then  a  resident  of 
Richmond,  to  his  father  Major  Thomas  Massie,  of  Nelson  county. 
With  the  exception  of  the  parts  quoted  the  letters  relate  entirely 
to  family  affairs  and  personal  business  matters  of  no  moment. 
While  but  little  actual  war  news  is  contained,  the  letters  give  an 
idea  of  business  conditions  in  Richmond  at  a  time  when  there  was 
no  enemy  actually  threatening  the  city;  but  when  the  coast  was 
closely  blockaded.  Dr.  Massie  though  doing  his  duty  faithfully 
as  assistant  surgeon  in  the  Militia,  was  evidently  strongly  opposed 
to  the  war,  and  we  find  in  his  letters  nothing  of  the  enthusiasm 
and  determination  which  the  threat  of  invasion  appears  to  have 
generally  called  forth.  He  was  afterwards  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  and  the  Convention  of  1829-30.  He  married  Lucy 
Waller,  of  Williamsburg,  and  left  issue.] 

1813. 
Feb.  6.  Prices  current:  flour  $10;  wheat  I2sh.;  tobacco  from 
$4  to  $7.  I  have  applied  to  Burns  respecting  what  William 
wishes  to  learn,  but  he  says  his  engagements  are  already  so  nu- 
merous that  he  cannot  undertake  more.  There  is  another  teacher 
here  named  Lynch  whose  qualifications  I  wish  to  enquire  into 
before  I  speak  to  him.  This  morning  an  express  arrived  from 
Norfolk  stating  that  eight  British  ships  of  war  were  within  a  few 
III  HI  ^  ill  Norfolk,  and  it  was  apprehended  that  they  would  bom- 
kird  the  town.  The  cavalry  and  volunteer  companies  of  this 
pJiKc  iire  now  on  the  Capitol  Square  to  receive  marching  orders. 
An  order  for  three  thousand  militia  has  been  issued,  to  march  to 
Niirlulk  without  delay. 


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March  13.  Your  flour  has  been  stored  ever  since  the  price* 
has  fallen  to  its  present  state — the  buyers  are  at  present  unwil- 
ling to  give  $7.00.  The  Russian  mediation  by  offering  the  hope 
of  peace  has  had  some  influence  on  the  price  of  colonial  pro- 
duce, particularly  sugar.  In  the  meantime  the  British  force  in 
the  Chesapeake,  by  late  reinforcements,  amounts  to  about  thirty 
armed  ships. 

March  26.  We  are  tantalized  here  with  the  hope  of  an  ar- 
mistice as  a  prelude  to  peace.  Whether  peace  will  be  the  result 
of  the  armistice,  if  agreed  on,  or  whether  an  armistice  will  take 
place,  no  man  here,  I  believe,  will  venture  to  say.  The  opinion 
of  the  men  of  best  sense  here  is  that  so  long  as  our  government 
commands  the  means  of  war,  no  peace  is  to  be  expected.  And 
that  little  is  to  be  hoped  for  except  from  our  inability  to  procure 
money,  or  a  refractory  spirit  in  Congress.  For  the  last  two 
weeks  the  militia  of  Richmond  and  of  the  neighbouring  counties 
have  been  placed  in  actual  service.  Every  other  day  the  19th 
Reg*,  to  which  I  am  attached,  has  been  kept  eight  hours  on  the 
parade.  This  sort  of  duty  to  people  of  the  country,  who  are 
now  preparing  to  plant  corn,  is  intolerable,  and  has  excited  much 
murmuring. 

P.  S.  We  are  informed  that  the  British  force  in  the  Chesa- 
peake is  Augmented  by  the  arrival  of  Ad"  Warren.  We  have 
little  apprehension  of  hostilities  reaching  this  place.  The  19th 
Reg*  was  dismissed  from  service  to-day. 

April  6th.  There  is  a  rumor  that  Gallatin  is  to  go  to  Russia 
after  he  has  negotiated  the  loan  voted  by  the  last  Congress. 
The  merchants  of  Philadelphia,  I  was  yesterday  told  by  Mr.  Pol- 
lard, had  agreed  to  take  the  balance  of  the  loan  at  25  P'  Cent, 
discount.  It  appears  from  the  Enquirer  of  to-day  that  Gallatin 
is  going  there  to  negotiate  the  loan. 

Tobacco  has  latterly  sold  here  on  better  terms  than  for  the 
last  twelve  months.     It  is  purchased,  I  suppose,  to  be  shipped 

*  War-time  prices  are  so  often  quoted  in  these  letters,  that  for  the 
purpose  of  comparison,  some  prices  just  before  the  war  are  given.  A 
Richmond  price-current  in  the  Argtts,  January,  181  r,  gives  the  following: 
wheat  (new),  I1.50;  flour  (superfine),  I9.75;  flour  (fine),  $8.50;  bacon,  13 
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the  moment  there  is  an  opportunity,  as  tobacco  sells  very  high 
now  in  England  and  the  stock  they  had  before  the  war  is  very 
much  diminished.  I  wish  I  could  give  you  any  satisfactory  ac- 
counts of  the  flour  market.  No  change  has  lately  taken  place. 
There  is  an  enormous  quantity  of  flour  stored  here,  and  unless 
the  blockade  is  raised,  immense  losses  will  be  sustained  by  many 
of  the  dealers  in  flour. 

April  22d.  I  will  endeavor  to  procure  as  much  gold  for  you 
as  I  can  get.  Some  time  ago  I  applied  at  the  Bank  of  Virginia 
to  know  how  much  American  gold  I  could  get  there.  They 
agreed  as  a  favor,  to  let  me  have  $200  in  Eagles.  The  banks  * 
have  absorbed  all  most  all  the  gold  in  circulation,  and  are  very 
reluctant  to  part  from  it.  I  will  procure  the  assistance  of  some 
of  the  merchants,  by  whose  means  I  may  procure  a  larger  sum 
than  I  could  otherwise  get. 

May  29th.  Robertson  informed  me  that  he  sold  fifty  barrels 
of  your  flour  this  morning  for  five  dollars  ^  barrel,  and  has 
some  expectation  of  selling  five  hundred  more  for  the  same  price. 
He  says  it  is  worth  a  dollar  more  ^  Barrel  than  any  other  flour 
in  the  market. 

July  2d.  I  arrived  here  on  the  third  day  after  I  left  you.  I 
found  the  inhabitants  of  this  place  in  a  state  of  considerable 
alarm  in  consequence  of  the  arrival  of  a  British  land  force  in  the 
Chesapeake.  Since  that  period  an  action  has  been  fought  at 
Hampton,  where  440  militia  are  stated  to  have  behaved  well  and 
to  have  killed  upwards  of  200  of  the  British  [an  error  in  num- 
ber]. The  force  that  made  the  attack  has  been  estimated  at 
from  2,000  to  2,500  men.  On  Wednesday  last  an  express  ar- 
rived here  stating  that  a  part  of  the  British  force  had  arrived  at 
Sandy  point.  The  Bells  were  rung,  the  alarm  guns  fired,  and 
the  town  thrown  into  a  state  of  great  consternation.  Some  of 
the  Enemy's  small  vessels  are  still  proceeding  up  the  river,  but 
the  most  rational  supposition  is,  I  think,  that  they  are  in  search 
of  fresh  provisions.  The  deserters  say  they  have  from  four  to 
five  thousand  men  on  board  their  fleet.  At  present  we  are  here 
under  martial  law,  the  militia  of  the  town  parades  morning  and 

♦The  Bank  of  Virginia,  chartered  January  30,  1804,  and  the  Farmers 
Bank,  February  13,  1812. 


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evening,  and  nothing  else  is  done.  The  militia  are  coming  in 
from  the  neighbouring  counties,  among  whom  are  many  well 
mounted  cavalry.  There  are,  I  think,  good  grounds  for  believ- 
ing that  their  force  has  been  exaggerated,  as  an  American  pilot 
who  was  aboard  the  admiral's  ship  when  Hampton  was  attacked 
states  that  the  ships  were  very  much  stripped  for  that  purpose, 
not  more  than  fifty  men  being  left  on  board  the  admiral's  ship, 
and  the  number  taken  from  the  others  was  proportionate.  The 
lucrative  part  of  the  practice  of  medicine  is  at  an  end  here  for 
the  present;  as  the  men  bearing  arms  are  put  upon  the  military 
establishment,  they  are  attended  by  the  medical  department  ol 
the  Regiments.  As  a  mate  to  the  Reg*,  I  have  two  hours  every 
day  for  the  purpose  of  prescribing  for  the  sick. 

July  17th.  We  are  here  at  present  in  perfect  quiet;  nearly 
the  whole  of  the  Enemy's  force  has  left  Hampton  roades;  the 
greater  part  has  gone  up  the  bay.  Yesterday  a  troop  of  horse 
from  Orange,  stationed  here,  were  ordered  to  March  to  Fred- 
ericksburg in  consequence  of  the  appearance  of  the  lighter 
vessels  of  the  British  fleet  in  the  Rappahannock.  Report  said 
they  were  not  far  from  Fredericksburg.  Nothing  is  doing  here 
now;  the  price  of  produce  is  scarcely  talked  of  The  prospect 
of  peace  appears  to  be  as  distant  as  ever.  We  have  had  some 
intensely  hot  weather  here  lately.  The  thermometer  at  Capt. 
Macon's  stood  one  day  at  99°  F.  The  same  day  in  New  Kent 
it  stood  loi.  Lucy  and  Sarah  are  staying  at  Capt.  Macon's, 
where  they  will  remain,  I  expect,  until  the  measles  and  Hooping 
cough  disappear  from  this  place.  A  great  many  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  Richmond  that  could  leave  home  have  gone  from  the 
town,  many  to  the  Springs. 

August  14.  Some  speculators  came  into  the  Tobacco  market 
a  few  days  ago,  and  purchased  to  a  considerable  amount  at  $6.50 
for  prime  Tobacco.     Flour  may  be  said  to  be  worth  nothing. 

Aug.  24.  A  considerable  portion  of  the  militia  collected  for 
the  defence  of  this  quarter  of  the  country  have  been  dismissed 
by  the  State  Executive.  I  do  not  know  how  many  are  at  present 
embodied.  Their  presence  in  this  neighborhood  has  rendered 
articles  of  subsistence  scarcer  and  dearer  than  they  were  ever 
known  here  before,  particularly  articles  of  food  for  horses. 
Sheaf  oats  have  sold  from  y'**  6**  to  9'"  ^  hundred  weight. 


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Sept.  3d.  Liverpool  salt  of  the  best  quality  sells  for  nine  dol- 
lars the  sack  of  five  bushels.  Common  salt  sells  for  about  nine 
shillings  ^  bushel.  Tobacco  has  lately  taken  a  rapid  rise  in  this 
market,  it  ranges  from  two  to  seven  dollars  and  is  in  demand. 

Sept.  15.  We  have  heard  nothing  here  lately  of  an  agreeable 
nature  except  that  some  sugar  is  on  its  way  here  from  the  coast 
of  North  Carolina,  and  a  reduction  in  the  price  of  that  article 
has  taken  place  from  thirty  to  twenty-four  dollars  ^  Cwt.  Some 
stress  appears  to  be  laid  upon  the  difficulty  and  danger  of  that 
coast,  and  a  hope  is  entertained  that  the  British  fleet  will  not  be 
enabled  effectually  to  prevent  an  intercourse  between  the  inlets 
of  North  Carolina  and  the  Ocean.  The  late  rise  in  the  price  of 
Tobacco  here  renders  me  anxious  to  know  what  prospect  Ham- 
bleton  has  of  raising  a  crop — wheat  is  worth  from  4***  6*  to  five 
shillings  ^  bushel  here.  New  flour  of  fine  quality  retails  at  $3. 50 
^  Cwt.  and  no  doubt  much  might  be  purchased  for  less.  The 
events  of  the  ensuing  winter  must*  determine  the  price  of  that 
article  ultimately,  it  is  decidedly  at  present  at  the  lowest  ebb, 
none  being  purchased  as  I  understand  with  a  view  to  speculation. 
Perhaps  some  may  be  got  out  in  the  winter  by  the  way  of  the 
dismal  swamp  canal.  Much  wheat  is  withheld  from  the  market 
in  the  hope  of  a  better  price.  It  is  not  understood  that  the 
British  Government  has  decided  upon  the  steps  with  respect  to 
Russian  mediation.  Of  one  thing  I  am  sure  that  if  the  war  con- 
tinues a  year  or  two  longer,  there  will  not  be  another  war  rashly 
entered  into  with  England  whilst  this  present  generation  lasts. 

Sept.  25.  With  respect  to  the  prospects  of  selling  flour  this 
winter  without  a  peace  it  is  gloomy  indeed.  The  blockade  of  the 
coast  of  North  Carolina  has  closed  the  last  outlet  left  for  Virginia, 
and  nothing  can  now  get  out  unless  it  runs  through  the  British 
fleet.  Although  some  attempts  of  that  .sort  will  doubtless  be 
made,  the  greatness  of  the  risk  will  render  freight  so  high  as  to 
reduce  the  price  of  flour  here  to  almost  nothing. 

Oct.  II.  I  believe  that  the  best  mode  of  disposing  of  any 
kind  of  grain  at  present  is  to  distil  it  into  whiskey,  that  liquor, 
I  am  informed,  being  now  worth  90  cents  ^  gallon.  Wheat  and 
Flour  are  allmost  worth  nothing  here  at  present. 

Oct.  29th.  Our  trade  here  is  assuming  a  new  direction  grad- 
ually.    Many  British  goods  arrive,  which  doubtless  are  smuggled 


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into  the  country.  Their  prices  I  think  may  be  averaged  at 
double  what  they  were  before  the  war.  Salt  is  rising.  A  sack 
of  Liverpool  filled  is  worth  Twelve  dollars. 

Nov.  20.  He  [Drew,  commission  merchant]  has  been  selling 
the  last  flour  you  sent  down  at  $5. 25  ^  Bbl.  Some  shipments 
have  been  made  of  flour  from  this  place  to  Norfolk  within  the 
last  few  days,  with  the  intention,  I  presume,  of  getting  it  out  to 
sea  by  some  means  or  other. 

Dec.  30.  (Has  just  returned  from  a  visit  to  his  father.)  I 
find  the  embargo  has  raised  the  price  of  groceries  considerably 
beyond  their  standard  previous  to  its  passage.  Sugar  is  now 
selling  at  $32  ^  Cwt.  for  Brown,  and  50  cents  ^  pound  for 
white  by  the  Barrel!.  Wheat  has  fallen  to  3'*'  ^  bushel,  and 
flour  is  almost  utterly  unsaleable  for  the  present.  The  two  Banks, 
I  am  informed,  are  not  willing  to  loan  any  more  money  to  the 
legislature,  and  that  the  State's  quota  must  be  raised  by  tax 
upon  the  people.  Military 'service,  rotting  crops,  and  heavy 
taxes  will  put  their  democracy  to  the  test.  Tobacco  has  not 
been  much  influenced  by  the  Embargo,  and  I  shall  probably  get 
a  tolerable  price  for  mine  when  it  arrives. 

1S14. 

Feb.  5.  I  do  not  think  it  by  any  means  improbable  that 
private  correspondence  is  often  examined  at  present  in  the  post- 
office,  in  order  to  ascertain  the  opinion  entertained  with  respect 
to  the  present  political  situation  of  the  country.  The  expecta- 
tion of  a  peace  from  the  negotiations  about  to  take  place  at 
Gottenburg,  as  far  as  I  can  learn,  is  gaining  ground.  It  is  be- 
lieved that  the  administration  will  be  wise  enough  to  accept  a 
peace,  if  they  can  obtain  one  not  utterly  shameful.  But  it  is 
apprehended  that  should  a  peace  ensue,  it  will  be  late  in  the 
present  year  before  our  trade  will  receive  any  advantage  from  it. 
Flour  is  excessively  dull  at  present.  .  I  now  frequently  see  Col. 
Macon  ;*  of  late  he  has  been  much  in  this  place.    Wednesday  an 

♦Colonel  William  Hartwell  Macon,  of ''Mt.  Prospect,"  New  Kent 
county;  bom  March  2d,  1759:  died  August  24,  1843;  married  (1)  March 
2d,  1779,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Edward  Ambler,  of  Jamestown;  (2)  De- 
cember 13,   1783,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Miles  Selden;   (3)  August  14, 


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express  arrived  here  from  New  Kent  to  carry  down  for  him  a 
new  wig  and  two  small  combs  to  tuck  up  the  long  hair  attached 
to  it.  During  the  life  of  his  wife  he  was  in  the  habit  of  wearing 
a  cap.  I  see  Major  Pryor*  frequently;  he  is  now  very  fat,  and 
still  active  as  military  agent.  No  failures  have  occurred  among 
the  merchants  here  since  I  wrote  you  last;  indeed,  the  appre- 
hension of  them  has  much  abated,  as  the  prices  of  West  India 
produce  have  settled  *  *  *  [torn]  not  more  than  20  ^  cent, 
below  which  *  *  *  were  previous  to  the  arrival  of  the  cartel 
[at  Annapolis,  with  an  offer  for  negotiations]. 

Feb.  12.  All  reflecting  men  seem  to  think  that  peace  should 
be  made  by  our  administration,  but  whether  the  obstinacy  and 
wounded  pride  of  the  ruling  party  may  so  far  infatuate  them  as 
to  induce  a  continuance  of  the  war,  is  difficult  to  determine. 
The  State  of  Massachusetts  appears  to  be  ripe  for  a  separation 
from  the  union,  and  if  the  war  continues  much  longer  there  is 
much  reason  to  apprehend  that  New  England  will  adopt  a  gov- 
ernment for  itself.  The  legislature  will  close  its  session  in  a  few 
days;  they  have  borrowed  all  the  money  they  could,  and  in- 
creased the  taxes  throughout  the  state  33>i  ^  cent.  Their  tax 
upon  Dogs  may  be  the  means  of  saving  a  good  many  sheep  and 
hogs. 

Feb.  26.     The  [bank]  stock  you  enquire  about,  you  will  per- 


1814,  Sarah,  widow  of  Benjamin  Dabney,  and  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Smith,  of  Cople  parish,  Westmoreland  county.  Colonel  Macon  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Delegates  1785,  1786.  1787. 

*John  Pryor,  Captain- Lieutenant  ist  Continental  Artillery,  13th  Feb- 
ruary, 1777;  Major  Aid-de-Camp  to  General  Alexander,  9th  June,  1779, 
to  14th  January,  1783;  retired  on  last-named  date.  After  the  war 
Major  Pryor  resided  in  Richmond,  and  was  for  a  time  military  agent  of 
the  State.  Like  many  retired  officers,  he  was  in  reduced  circumstances, 
and  for  a  time  kept  a  pleasure  resort  called  Pryor's  Garden,  situated  on 
the  river  side  near  the  present  Byrd  street  station.  While  residing  here 
his  wife  separated  from  him,  and  soon  after  became  the  wife  of  Mons. 
Fremont,  dancing  master,  and  the  mother  of  John  C.  Fremont.  John 
Bigelow,  in  a  campaign  life  of  Fremont,  published  in  1856,  makes  a  very 
pretty  story  of  youth  and  beauty  chained  in  unbearable  union  to  age  and 
decrepitude;  of  separation  by  mutual  consent  and  of  a  happy  second 
marriage;  but  the  real  story,  as  told  by  documentary  evidence,  is  of  a 
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ceive  by  the  advertisement  in  the  Enquirer,  will  commence 
being  sold  on  the  14th  of  March.  It  will  be  sold,  I  am  informed, 
in  lots  of  from  five  to  twenty  shares,  and  the  sale  continued  from 
day  to  day  until  it  is  all  sold.  The  Bank  officers  think  it  will 
command  from  $103  to  $105  ^  share,  but  Blagrove,  one  of  the 
Commissioners,  expects  to  get,  as  I  am  informed,  as  much  as 
$115  ^  share  for  it.  With  respect  to  flour,  it  has  really  been  so 
dull  that  many  of  the  merchants  have  answered  my  inquiries 
relative  to  the  price  that  it  was  worth  nothing.  None  of  yours 
has  been  sold.  Drew  tells  me,  for  less  than  $5^  ^  Bbl.  Some 
tobacco  has  been  sold  here  lately  as  high  as  thirteen  dollars  p' 
Hundred.  I  suppose  the  price  of  that  article  will  keep  up  until 
our  hopes  of  a  peace  are  disappointed,  which  I  suppose  will  be 
ascertained  in  the  month  of  June. 

March  15.  You  have  doubtless  heard  some  account  of  an 
alarm  felt  among  the  northern  Banks  in  consequence  of  the 
heavy  drafts  made  upon  them  lately.  I  allude  to  the  banks  as 
far  north  as  New  York.  The  Manhattan  Bank,  one  of  much 
importance  in  the  City  of  New  York,  has  actually  stopped  pay- 
ment. The  drafts  that  have  been  felt  most  heavily  have  come 
from  Massachusetts,  the  balance  of  trade  since  the  blockade  of 
our  coast  having  been  greatly  in  favor  of  that  State.  Through 
them  we  have  obtained  allmost  all  our  articles  of  foreign  growth; 
and  as  we  to  the  west  of  the  Hudson  could  send  them  none  of 
our  produce,  or  very  little,  in  return,  it  became  necessary  to  pay 
in.  cash.  These  payments  were  made  in  Bank  notes,  and  these 
notes  are  now  sent  on  for  the  specie  deposited  in  the  Banks 
from  whence  they  were  issued.  Coin  is,  of  course,  becoming 
scarcer  to  the  South;  the  Banks  are  more  Cautious  in  lending 
money;  here  they  have  refused  to  lend  any  more  than  is  actually 
out;  and  when  this  new  stock  is  brought  into  the  market,  these 
circumstances  must  influence  its  price.  Will  they  not  have  a 
tendency  also  to  impair  its  credit?  Our  Government . is  also 
about  to  borrow  25  millions  of  Dollars  if  they  can  get  it.  Many 
of  the  Banks  have  been  severely  squeezed  by  them,  and  if  the 
new  loan  is  obtained  from  the  same  sources,  bankruptcy  must  in 
many  instances  follow.  I  know  you  have  foreseen  for  some  time 
a  depreciation  of  the  paper  currency  of  the  country. 

April  8.  Old  Virginia  [Bank]  Stock  is  at  $126,  new  stock  is 


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at  $io8  or  $109,  of  the  latter  I  understand  there  is  none  in  the 
market,  and  being  principally  purchased  by  persons  from  the 
country  will  perhaps  remain  uninfluenced  by  the  present  unex- 
ampled pressure  for  money.  The  Banks  here  have  been  calling 
in  their  debts  in  consequence  the  pressure  on  them,  and  those 
persons  here  who  have  borrowed  from  them,  even  of  the  best 
credit  in  the  place,  are  giving,  I  am  credibly  informed,  5  ^  Cent. 
P'  month  for  money  to  meet  their  discounts.  A  very  large  divi- 
dend will  be  made  in  July  of  all  the  surplusses  left  at  the  former 
divisions  on  the  old  stock,  in  order  to  place  the  old  stock  on  a 
footing  with  the  new,  and  that  prospect  keeps  up  the  price  of  the 
old  stock. 

May  22d  (Staunton).  The  intelligence  from  England  is  not  of 
a  pacific  nature  towards  us.  No  commissioners  have  been  ap- 
pointed to  meet  ours.  Produce  in  Richmond  has  fallen  rapidly, 
especially  tobacco,  which  to  me  is  very  unpleasant  information 
for  I  calculated  on  getting  something  for  my  tobacco,  consider- 
ing the  high  prices  given  for  the  last  three  months. 

July  16.  I  reached  this  place  on  Thursday  evening  last.  I 
found  the  town  in  a  state  of  very  considerable  alarm  from  the 
news  that  a  large  British  reinforcement  had  reached  the  Chesa- 
peake. It  does  not  however  appear  that  a  large  force  has  arrived 
here,  it  is  only  expected.  Some  of  Wellington's  troops  have 
reached  Canada.  Major  Pryor  tells  me  he  thinks  this  place  is 
in  great  danger,  and  advises  me  to  move  off  my  furniture.  Bar- 
ber [Governor  James  BarbourJ  has  convoked  some  militia  gene- 
rals and  they  are  now  holding  what  they  call  a  council  of  war. 
No  business  of  any  kind  is  doing  here  now.  I  am  glad  that  I 
left  my  wife  and  children  behind,  for  I  do  not  think  it  improbable 
that  Richmond  will  be  a  pile  of  ashes  before  the  fall.  Col.  Macon 
is  to  be  married  in  a  few  weeks  to  a  widow  in  Gloucester  named 
Dabney.  If  the  negotiations  now  pending  do  not  terminate  in 
peace  I  «hall  abandon  this  place  altogether. 

Aug.  2d.  I  have  sent  off  two  of  Gregory*  s  boats*  loaded  with 


*In  1800  a  canal  around  the  falls  of  James  river  from  Richmond  to 
Westham  was  opened,  and,  with  some  minor  work  higher  up,  the  river 
was  rendered  navigable  to-  Lynchburg.  The  boats  used  were  open 
batteaux,  carrying  from  ten  to  twelve  hogsheads  of  tobacco.      The 


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the  balance  of  the  furniture  that  it  was  in  my  power  to  pack  up, 
having  two  boats  of  Samuel  Harding's  two  days  before.  Since 
Harding  set  out  we  have  had  an  unusual  fresh  in  James  River, 
which  has  carried  off  Mayo's  bridge  and  done  immense  damage 
to  the  country  bordering  on  the  river.  I  hope  the  boats  escaped 
without  injury.  I  have  ordered  Fleming  to  ride  roan  horse  up 
to  Nelson  and  to  bring  Lark  down,  if  his  back  is  well  enough. 
My  reason  for  wishing  to  have  him  is  that  if  I  am  ordered  into 
the  field  he  is  the  only  horse  I  have  that  will  stand  fire.  If  any 
accident  should  happen  to  me  I  know  my  Dear  Father,  that  you 
will  take  care  of  my  children,  allow  me  to  entreat  that  you  will 
also  take  care  of  my  good  and  blameless  wife. 

Aug.    13.     'I  have  preserved  the  Bills  for  the  articles  pur- 
chased for  you,  and  the  prices  are  as  follows: 

2  Barrels  White  Sugar,  240  lb.,  @  34-100,  $  8i.6o 

4  lb.  Imperial  tea  @  igsh.,  6d.,          .  13.00 
I  Cask  lody.  nails,  150  lb.  1  ^^^  ^  ,^ 

1  do.  I2dy.   150  lb.  [  300  @  14        .  42.00 

6  Stock  locks,  losh.,  6d.,  ...  9.75 

2  Casks  q' 67 

156  lb.  6d.  cut  nails  @  I7cts.,  and  barrel, 

2sh 26.85 

$173.87 
United  States  Gazette  from  Jany.,  1813.  to 

Jany.,  1815, 8.00 

$181.87 

The  agent  for  the  Federal  Republican  has  appointed  to-day 
to  receive  your  subscription.     Ritchie  I  shall  also  pay  to-day. 

boatmen  were  negroes,  and  a  fragment  of  one  of  their  songs  is  still 

remembered: 

•*  I  gwine  down  ter  town, 
I'm  gwine  down  ter  town, 
Vm  gwine  down  t'  Richmond  town, 
Ter  cyar  my  baccer  down." 

*•  Porte  Crayon  "  and  Dr.  Bagby  have  written  of  the  boatmen  and  the 
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Drew  has  since  sold  loo  Barrels  of  your  flour  at  4  dollars  ^  Bar- 
rel. Bank  stock  has  sold  at  auction  for  the  following  prices: 
Old  Virginia,  $iio;  New  do.,  $102.50;  Farmers  Bank,  $112. 
Great  distress  for  money  here  has  occasioned  the  depreciation, 
as  the  Banks,  so  far  from  discounting,  are  curtailing  as  far  as 
possible.  The  Virginia  Bank  will,  it  is  believed,  be  safe,  but  if 
the  war  continues  the  Farmers  Bank  is  thought  to  be  in  danger 
.of  breaking,  as  an  immense  number  of  those  to  whom  it  has  given 
credits  must  be  ruined.  I  am,  however,  I  think,  correctly  in- 
formed that  there  is  not  specie  enough  in  the  Virginia  Bank  to 
take  up  all  its  notes,  and  if  an  alarm  with  respect  to  its  credit 
should  produce  a  run  upon  it,  it  will  be  compelled,  for  a  time  at 
least,  to  stop  the  payment  of  specie.  The  Banks  at  New  Or- 
leans have  some  time  since  stopped  paying  specie,  and  their 
notes  have  depreciated  from  10  to  20  ^  cent.  The  far  greater 
part  of  the  specie  of  the  Bank  of  Virginia  is  at  Lynchburg. 
The  destruction  of  Richmond  at  this  juncture  would  produce 
immense  loss  to  allmost  the  whole  of  Virginia. 

Aug.  20th.  The  day  before  yesterday  we  received  informa- 
tion from  Norfolk  that  a  large  fleet  had  entered  the  bay,  sup- 
posed from  the  number  of  transports  to  have  brought  seven  or 
eight  thousand  men.  They  formed  a  junction  with  those  already 
here,  and  by  the  last  accounts  had  proceeded  up  the  bay.  1  heir 
destination  is  supposed  to  be  Baltimore  or  Washington,  they 
may  have  some  other  object.  The  price  given  here  for  flour  for 
the  army  is  kept  a  secret  by  the  contractors,  I  have,  therefore, 
not  been  able  to  ascertain  what  is  given  for  that  article.  Bacon 
will  sell  readily  by  the  quantity  at  from  15  to  18  cents  ^  lb. 
All  that  is  brought  here  sound  goes  off*  readily.  The  town  is 
becoming  sickly.  I  hope  a  few  days  will  enable  me  to  leave  this 
place,  unless  I  am  called  upon  to  perform  military  duty.  At 
present  I  see  no  prospect  of  my  being  employed  in  that  manner, 
the  time  however,  may  not  be  far  distant.  Under  almost  any 
event  a  part  of  the  Regiment  to  which  I  am  attached  will  re- 
main in  the  town,  and  unless  the  whole  marches,  I  do  not  un- 
derstand that  I  am  bound  to  go,  belonging  to  Ambler's  staff, 
whom  they  wish  to  keep  out  of  service  if  possible.  They  can- 
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Court  Martial  can  proceed  upon,  and  the  only  resource  is  to 
leave  him  at  home. 

Sept.  5.  I  arrived  here  on  Sunday.  I  found  the  town  in 
consternation,  most  of  the  inhabitants  gone,  goods,  furniture, 
&c.,  remained.  We  have  not  heard  from  the  British  since  they 
left  Washington.  Troops  are  pouring  in  here  every  hour,  the 
mass  of  militia  will  be  very  great,  from  ten  to  twenty  thousand 
men,  no  business  is  transacted  here  at  present.  I  have  been  or- 
dered and  countermanded  several  times,  my  final  orders  are  to 
move  tomorrow  morning  at  sunrise  to  Bottoms  Bridge,  where  I 
am  to  remain  with  a  regiment,  perhaps  for  some  time.  1  have 
equipped  myself  as  well  as  I  can,  having  as  I  am  told,  to  sleep 
on  the  ground  without  a  tent,  and  very  litde  to  eat. 

Sept.  13.  I  wrote  to  you  soon  after  my  arrival  here,  when  I 
expected  to  be  stationed  for  some  time  at  Bottom's  Bridge. 
When  we  arrived  at  Camp  we  were  ordered  back  again ;  to  be 
stationed  in  Richmond  until  further  orders.  My  time  has  been 
allmost  incessantly  occupied  since  my  return  in  doing  the  medical 
duty  of  the  Reg*  as  we  have  no  hospital,  and  are  obliged  to  visit 
the  men  in  their  own  lodgings  and  report  their  situation  daily. 
At  present  all  boats,  waggons,  &c.,  are  impressed  for  the  public 
service.  The  Farmers  Bank  has  stopped  the  payment  of  specie 
alltogether.  The  other  Bank  continues  to  pay  specie  in  part. 
The  country  people  are  now  very  unwilling  to  take  bank  notes 
in  payment  for  anything,  and  it  is  really  difficult  to  buy  subsis- 
tance. 

Sept.  14.     I  saw  here.     He  informed  me  that  on  his 

way  down  he  found  a  person  who  agreed  to  take  his  place  for 
$150.  That  person  has  substituted  him  and  I  suppose  is  now 
discharged.  I  was  going  to  Camp  at  Bottoms*  Bridge,  but  on 
arriving  there  was  ordered  back  to  be  stationed  here  until  further 
orders.  The  notice  for  discharging  these  troops,  I  understand, 
arises  from  the  difficulty  of  supplying  them  with  provisions.  The 
Country  is  allmost  in  a  state  of  destitution. 

Sept.  22d.  As  Bank  notes  have  depreciated  10  p.  cent,  and 
are  likely  to  fall  still  more  I  do  not  wish  to  sell  any  of  my  property 
here,  at  present,  as  they  are  the  only  kind  of  money  to  be  had. 
Specie  has  allmost  vanished  entirely. 

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Stands  at  $105,  the  new  at  $102.  The  Banks  since  stopping  the 
payment  of  specie  have  ceased  curtailing  their  accounts,  and  the 
motive  for  selling  Bank  stock,  at  least  the  most  urgent,  ceased 
with  that  measure.  My  stay  in  Richmond  is  very  uncertain. 
Ambler  is  now  at  Fredericksburg  on  a  Court  Martial,  when  he 
returns  I  expect  to  go  with  him  to  Chamberlayne's  Brigade  near 
Bottoms*  Bridge. 

Nov.  9.  I  arrived  here  this  morning.  I  found  Dr.  Adams 
in  Town  who  told  me  that  he  had  written  to  me  eight  days  since, 
to  inform  me  there  was  no  occasion  for  my  presence  in  Camp. 
Colo.  Ambler  having  determined  to  use  the  medical  staff  he 
found  there.  Dr.  Adams  was  discharged  after  a  few  days  ser- 
vice. The  Colonel  will  finish  his  tour  [of  duty]  which  it  is 
expected  will  last  until  the  first  of  March,  and  as  members  of  his 
staff  we  will  not  be  called  into  service  until  it  comes  his  time  to 
serve  again,  retaining,  as  we  shall,  any  present  commissions.  • 

Flour  I  am  informed  will  command  $4.50.* 


VIRGINIA  MILITIA  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 

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1777.  Jan'y  i.  Demerit,  John,  for  Carthire  to  the  Lancaster  Battal- 
ion, £a.  o.  o. 

Davis,  John,  for  two  Rifles  for  Capt.  Thos.  Dillard's  Comp'y  Min. 
Men,  II.  o.  o. 

Mar.  12.  Darden,  Capt.  John,  for  pay  &  Rations  for  his  Comp.  Isle 
of  Wight  Militia,  to  21st  Feb'y,  25.  13.  10. 

14.  Dillingham,  Joshua,  for  i  Rifle  furhished  Capt.  Abram  Penn*s 
Comp.,  4.  10.  o. 

22.     Duffie,  Thomas,  for  8  days'  work  on  Fort  Stephen,  i.  12.  o. 

♦  In  1816  a  "boom  "  period  set  in  in  Richmond;  credit  was  easy  and 
speculation  was  rife.  Lands  in  and  about  the  city  and  Manchester  sold 
at  the  most  extravagant  prices,  and  several  ** additions"  (not  yet  built 
up)  were  laid  out.  Speculation  and  high  prices  were  not  confined  to 
real  estate  alone,  but  also  included  produce;  flour  rose  to  $15  and  even 
I25  a  bbl;  tobacco  from  $2  or  $5  to  $15,  $25,  and  even  I30.  Of  course, 
a  collapse  followed  and  losses  were  heavy.  Mordecai,  in  Richmond  in 
Bygone  Days,  has  a  chapter  on  this  period,  "Flush  Times  in  Richmond." 


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Ditto,  for  32>^  do.  Gun  Carriages,  6.  lo.  o. 
Duffey,  William,  43  do.  Fort  Stephen,  8.  12.  o. 

29.  Davis,  Edward,  for  Work  on  the  Fort  at  Portsmouth,  i.  17.  6. 
April  I.     Douglas,  Thomas,  for  Wagon  hire  on  Cherokee  Expedition, 

32.  o.  o. 

8.  Dixon  &  Hunter,  for  mom*g  &  provision  returns,  8.  10.  o. 

9.  Dubree,  John,  for  Wood  furnished  the  Militia  at  Hampton,  8.  o.  o. 

10.  Drewry,  Capt.  John,  for  pay  of  his  Volun'r  Comp'y  in  K'g  Wm., 
from  7th  to  15th  Oct'r  inc.,  27.  17.  4. 

14.     Dubrey,  George,  for  a  Gun  ip  Capt.  John  Winston's  Cert.,  6.  o.  o. 

23.  Dixon,  Sarah,  for  4  Cord  of  Wood  furnished  Militia  at  Hampton, 
2.  o.  o. 

May  9.  Downing,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'y  Northum- 
berl'd  Militia,  10.  7.  6. 

Davenport,  Capt.  William  for  pay,  &c.,  do.,  46.  16.  ii>^. 

21.     Dunkin,  Capt.  John,  for  Do.  &  rations  for  12  men  to  the  ist  inst, 

179.   12.   12. 

Dysart,  Capt.  James,  for  Do.  to  the  6th  of  April  last,  41.  4.  5. 

30.  Daniel,  George,  Major  of  Middlesex  Militia,  for  pay,  rations,  &c., 
'^  acct.,4.  4.  4>^. 

June  6.  Dixon  Luke,  for  5  days'  services  bring'g  Ship  Rockingham 
to  Suffolk,  — .  10.  o. 

23.  Dalton,  John,  for  a  Rifle  furnished  Capt.  Tho.  Min't  Company, 
5.  o.  o. 

26.  Dun,  Samuel,  for  work  done  on  Fort  Stephens  (See  Hardnes 
Waller),  2.  10.  o. 

27.  Day,  Francis,  for  ferriages  to  Capt.  Leftwiche's  &  Martin's  Comp. 
Militia,  i.  i.  6. 

Sept.  15.  Dickinson,  Arthur,  for  pay  as  Major  to  York  Militia  ^ 
Cert.,  4.  o.  o. 

18.  Dandredge,  William,  for  ditto,  7th  Battalion  of  Ditto.,  10.  7.  4. 

19.  Daniel,  Vivion,  for  a  Drum  furnished  for  his  Comp'y  Orange  Mi- 
litia, 2.  o.  o. 

23.  Donelson,  Capt.  John,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'y  Pitsylvania  Ditto, 
^  acco.,  440.  13-  o- 

Donelson,  Capt.  John,  for  sundry  persons  for  Waggon  hire,  &c.,  ^ 
accot.,  loi.  19.  3. 

Donelson,  Col.  John,  for  sundry  persons  for  waggon  hire,  &c.,  ^  acco't, 
101.  19.  3. 

27.  Dickson,  Capt.  James,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'y  on  the  frontiers  of 
Washington,  do.,  437.  6.  11. 

Dunlop,  Ephraim,  for  pay  as  Comm'y  &  sundries  purchased,  ^ 
accot.,  289.  6.  9. 

Oct.  7.  Dillard,  James,  for  one  Hog  furnished  the  Buckingham  Mili- 
tia, ^  acco't,  I.  o.  o. 


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17.  Dooley,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  pay  of  his  Comp'y  Bedford  Ditto,  ^ 
acco't,  192.  9.  10. 

25.  Donelson,  Col.  John,  for  Powder  furnished  for  the  Cherokee  Ex- 
pedition, IP  acct.,  37.  4.  1)4. 

Nov'r  I.  Deforest,  Cornelius,  for  Baking  bread  for  the  Militia,  1^  or- 
der Genl.  Nelson,  75.  19.  3. 

4.  Downing,  Capt.  William,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  his  Comp'y  Northum'd 
Militia,  %>  accot.,  16.  12.  3. 

5.  Davenport,  Capt.  William,  for  pay,  &c..  Ditto,  ^  accot.,  32.  i.  11. 
Darning,  Capt.  Thomas,  for  Ditto,  Ditto,  ^  accot.,  10.  17.  12. 

7.  Donnelly,  Andrew,  for  sundry  Persons  for  Provisions,  &c. ,  ^  accot. , 

47.  13-  9- 

8.  Donelson,  Capt.  John,  for  Rations  of  self  &  officers  of  Pittsylvania 
militia,  ^  accot.,  14.  o.  o. 

14.  Donnelly  &  Matthews,  for  bal.  Provisions,  &c.,  furnished  troops 
at  Point  Pleas't,  170.  6.  10. 

Dec.  19.  Davis,  John,  for  pay  as  a  Spy  on  the  frontiers  to  Aug't  20, 
f^  accot.,  30.  o.  o. 

26.  Darden,  Holland,  for  Provisions  furnished  the  Brunswick  militia, 
^  accot.,  3.  5.  9. 

30.  Donne,  John,  for  services  assisting  settling  the  Militia  claims,  ^ 
Cert.,  9.  o.  o. 

1778.  Feb'y  19.  Dunn,  John,  Lieut.,  for  pay,  &c.,  of  his  Comp'y 
Warwick  Ditto,  |*  accot.,  9.  19.  o. 

24.  Davis,  Richard,  Lieut.,  for  pay,  &c..  Ditto,  Gloster  Ditto,  ^ 
accot.,  15.  3.  8. 

Mar.  23.  Durant,  Capt.  Geo.,  for  Ditto,  Princess  Anne  Ditto,  '^ 
accot.,  71.  7.  3. 

May  12.     Dickinson,  John,  for  diets,  &c.,  3.  4.  3. 

13.     Dart,  Joseph,  Express,  15.  o.  o. 

June  12.     Davidson,  George,  Do.,  16.  o.  o. 

July  9.  Dix,  Leven,  Negro  hir'd  on  Fort  Henry,  i.  7.  o. 

Octo.  12.  Davis,  John,  Serg.,  for  Pay  of  himself  &  Comp.  of  Bote- 
tourt militia,  ^  cert.,  20.  12.  4. 

16.  Dillard,  Capt.  John,  for  Pay  of  himself  &  Comp.  of  Pitsylvania 
Militia  &  Sundry  Provisions,  1^  accot.  &  vouchers,  748.  5.  9. 

17.  Donaldson,  John,  Jun'r,  Pay,  &c.,  of  his  company  of  Pittsylvania 
militia,  478.  12.  o. 

Nov'r  18.  Downing,  James,  for  Pay  as  a  Spy  in  Montgomerie  county, 
^  Cert.,  I.  o.  o. 

24.  Drysart,  Capt.  James,  for  Pay  of  his  Com'y  of  Washington  Co'y 
Militia,  stationed  on  ye  Frontiers,  "P  Pay  Roll  &  Cert.,  218.  17.  5. 

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MARRIAGE  LICENSES,  AUGUSTA  COUNTY,  VA., 

1749-1773- 


[We  are  indebted  to  Judge  Lyman  Chalkley,  of  Staunton,  Va.,  for  the 
loHowing  list  of  early  marriage  licenses  issued  in  Augusta  county,  which 
he  compiled  from  the  county  records.  It  is  unique  among  such  records 
in  this  State,  from  the  fact  that  the  name  of  the  man  only  is  given. 
Possibly  ungallant  county  clerks  deemed  the  person  who  paid  the  fee 
the  only  one  of  importance.] 

1749— December,  Charles  Whiteaker. 

1749-50 — February,  John  McGill,  John  Jones,  George  Wilson;  March, 
James  Edmondson,  John  Ramsey,  James  Huston;  March  19th,  Robert 
Friela,  William  McNabb. 

1750— April,  James  Young;  May,  Joshua  Mathews;  June  2d,  Joseph 
White,  Joseph  Maze. 

175  c— April  4th,  Thomas  Fulton;  April  15th,  Edward  Beard,  Henry 
Fuler;  June  3d,  John  Poage;  June  15th,  Jacob  Harmon;  July  nth,. Wil- 
liam Smith;  September  4th,  Andrew  Leeper;  September  loth,  Thomas 
Milsap. 

1753— August  17th,  Humphrey  Madison;  November  22,  John  Mont- 
gomerie. 

1754 — February  4th,  John   Bowyer;    March  23d,  Fred.  Smith,  John 

Fatten;  May  ist,  James  Bratton;  July  23d,  George  Poage;  ,  John 

Wilson. 

1756 — August,  Patrick  Miller. 

1758 — March,  Robert  Reed;  July  6th,  Robert  Breckinridge;  July  20th, 
Robert  McMahon;  .August  8th,  John  Campbell;  August  19th,  Henry 
Murray;  December  26th,  John  Dean. 

1759 — February  19th,  Rob.  Thompson;  February  26th,  John  Gray; 
May  i6th,  Ed.  McMullen;  June  22d,  James  Patterson;  July  3d,  Samuel 
Love;  July  14th,  William  Smith,  James  Littlepage;  July  30th,  Jesper 
Moore;  August  25th,  James  Bell;  September  — ,  Sampson  Mathews; 
September  nth,  James  Alexander;  October  2d,  William  Fulton;  No- 
vember, Michael  Hogshead,  David  Lewis,  Sampson  Sayers;  December, 
Richard  Shankland. 

1760 — ^January,  Edward  McGarry;  February,  James  McGaffock;  March, 
William  Davis;  April,  Robert  Farish;  May,  John  Moffet;  May,  James 
McDowell;  August,  Sam.  Wallace,  Jr.,  Wm.  Clark,  John  Peevie;  Sep- 
tember, Thomas  Stevenson,  Richard  Mays,   Randal  Lockhart. 

1761 — November  ist,  William  Ralston;  November  17th,  Daniel  Har- 


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vey,  Richard  Morris;  November  i8th,  David  Caldwell,  Moses  Moore; 
November  21st,  William  Ward;  December  29th,  Adam  Dunlop. 

1762 — January  nth,  James  Arbuckle;  January  13th,  James  Kerr;  Jan- 
uary i8th,  Edward  Long;  February  7th,  James  Moffet;  February  16th, 
John  Reabum;  February  17th,  John  Patterson;  February  i8th,  JohnCar- 
lile;  February  25th,  Sam.  Cowdon;  March  13th,  Adam  Thompson; 
March  i8th,  Robt.  Murphy;  March  25th,  James  Hill;  April  6th,  Andrew 
Lockridge;  April  17th,  William  Poage;  April  23d  Robt  Allen;  April 
27th,  Thomas  Poage;  May  3d,  James  Robertson;  May  4th,  Thos.  Non- 
yer,  Drury  Puckett;  May  i8th,  Jos.  Blackwood;  May  25th,  Andrew 
Russell;  June  6th,  Thomas  Rafferty,  Michael  Coger,  William  Robinson; 
June  19th,  Cha.  Lewis;  July  20th,  William  Tees;  Aug'st  i8th,  Rob. 
Stuart,  Rob.  Gorrell;  Sep'r  13th,  George  Mathews;  Sep'r  25th,  James 
McAfee;  Sep*r  31'th,  Sam'l  McMurtr>'. 

1765— October  17th,  William  McBride;  NovV  4th,  Robert  Anderson; 
Nov'r  6th,  Thomas  Shanklin,  Hugh  Allen. 

1766 — May  2ist,  James  Rodgers;  May  23d,  James  Patterson;  June  13th, 
Rob*t  Campbell;  June  20th,  Pat.  Christian;  June  24th.  John  Taylor; 
Aug.  20th,  James  Stewart,  Sep'r  loth,  Andrew  Donelly;  Sep'r  nth, 
Samuel  Ralston;  Oct'r  i,  Thos.  Gaugh. 

1767— Nov'r  — ,  John  Shanklin,  Samuel  Vamer. 

1768 — April  29th,  Robert  Stevenson;  July  6th,  Henry  King;  July  20th, 
Thos.  Bradshaw,  Jr. ;  December  9th,  Joseph  Gamwell. 

1769— January  16th,  John  Beard;  March  21st,  Alex'r  Reed,  Jun'r;  May 
nth,  Wm.  Young;  July  5th,  John  Wilson;  July  loth,  John  Abney;  Au- 
gust 28th,  James  Laird.  Jun'r;  October  2d,  Robert  Gibson;  October  nth, 
Wm.  Oldham;  Dec'r  26,  Wm.  McClure. 

1770— January  23,  Sam'l  Kilpatrick;  January  24,  John  McClenachan; 
April  10,  Pat.  Buchanan;  April  16.  Joseph  Campbell;  May  15th,  Rob. 
McClenachan,  Jun'r;  June  9th,  Abraham  Lincon;  July  25th,  Sam'l  Er- 
win;  Aug.  13th,  Richard  Woods;  Sept.  3d,  John  Patterson;  Oct'r  3d, 
Matthew  Kenny;  Oct'r  i6th,  John  Frogg;  Oct'r  24th,  Thomas  Teese; 
Dec'r  5th,  Pat.  Lockhart 

1771— Feb'y  25th,  Henry  Hall;  March  19th,  John  Warwick,  John  Mc- 
Creery,  Alex'r  Galesky;  April  3d,  John  Craig;  May  22d,  Samuel  Ste- 
venson; May  29th,  Wm.  Hamilton;  July  14th,  Thomas  Smith;  Sep'r  i6th, 
William  Trotter;  Dec'r  loth,  James  Anderson. 

1772— Jan'y  3d,  John  Harvie;  Feb'y  21st,  Wm.  Dunlop;  March  12th, 
John  Lewis;  April  3d,  James  Curry;  July  3d,  Samuel  Gibson;  Aug.  18th, 
James  Craig;  Aug.  20th,  Arch'd  Dixon;  Nov'r  27th,  John  Van  Lear; 
Nov'r  30th,  Thomas  Posey,  Alexander. 

1773 — Feb'y  2d,  John  Lewis;  March  17th,  Daniel  Taylor;  March  29th, 
James  Trimble;  May  8th,  Solomon  Estill;  May  i8th,  James  McClure; 
May  2ist,  William  Hamilton;  June  23d,  William  Sprowl. 


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(529)  Henry  Hart,  250  acres  of  land  in  the  county  of  James  City,  at 
the  head  of  the  great  creek.  Due  for  the  transportation  of  Elizabeth 
Hart,  his  wife,  Martha  Ward,  Phillipp  Cleaner,  lane  Walker,  Wm.  Pat- 
rick.    Granted  by  Harvey,  August  15,  1637. 


(530)  John  Hucks,  200  acres  in  the  county  of  James  City,  on  the 
south  side  of  James  river,  and  bounded  also  by  Cross  creek,  and  the 
land  of  William  Reynolds.  Due:  50  acres  for  his  own  personal  adven- 
ture, and  150  for  the  transportation  of  three  persons:  Jon.  Rawlings, 
Jon.  Hodson  and  John  Moore.    Granted  by  Harvey,  August  15,  1637. 


(53O  John  Orchard,  350  acres  in  the  county  ol  James  City,  "right 
against  the  further  gulf  on  the  east  side  of  Chickahominy  river,  a  mile  from 
the  hither  side  of  Warreny  landing  place."  Due  for  the  transportation  of 
his  first  wife,  Ann,  his  now  wife,  Mary,  his  own  personal  adventure,  and 
the  transp>ortation  of  four  persons:  Wm.  Oxford,  John  Ward,  Margary 
Price,  Francis  Massett.     Granted  by  Harvey,  August,  1637. 


(532)  William  Carter,  200  acres  in  the  county  of  James  City,  ad- 
joining on  the  south  the  land  formerly  granted  to  him,  and  extending 
easterly  toward  Chippoaks  creek,  and  westerly,  the  sunken  marsh. 
Granted  by  Harvey,  August  15,  1637. 


(533)  Robert  Craddock  and  John  Davis,  600  acres  in  the  county  of 
Henrico,  300  of  which  lies  northerly  upon  a  great  swamp,  and  southei  ly 
towards  the  land  of  Alice  Edloe,  widow,  and  "  westerly  over  the  river," 
called  by  the  name  of  the  Longfield.[i]  Due  as  follows:  300  by  as- 
signment from  Wm.  Cooke  and  Richard  Carpenter,  and  300  for  the  trans- 
portation of  six  persons  (names  not  given).    Granted  by  Harvey,  Aug. 

15,  1637. 

Assignment,  June  13,  1636,  from  John  Baugh,  [2]  of  Varina,  planter, 
to  Cooke  and  Carpenter,  of  the  land  patented  by  him. 

Assignment,  July  29,  1637,  of  Cooke  and  Carpenter,  to  John  Davis 
and  Robert  Craddocke,  of  Harihatox,  planters. 

Notes. 

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containing  400  acres,  and  authorized  the  owner,  Francis  Eppes,  who 
held  under  the  will  of  his  great-grandfather,  to  sell,  and  instead  entailed 
400  acres  in  Chesterfield,  which  he  owned  in  fee  simple,  and  which  ad- 
joined 150  acres  left  by  said  will,  as  the  tract  "  on  which  the  brick  house 
stands."  This  last  named  tract  was  doubtless  in  or  near  Bermuda  Hun- 
dred. 

[2]  Baugh  is  one  of  the  names  of  longest  standing  within  the  district 
included  in,  or  near  the  present  county  of  Chesterfield.  It  is  not  known 
whether  the  early  representatives  of  the  name  were  of  the  same  family; 
but  as  they  lived  near  each  other,  it  seems  probable.  Thomas  Baugh 
was  living  at  "West  and  Shirley  Hundred,"  in  February,  1623,  and  at 
the  "College  Land"  (near  Dutch  Gap)  in  1624-5.  John  Baugh  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Henrico  at  the  session  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1644-45.  I*^  the  minutes  of  the  General  Court,  under  date  No- 
vember 16,  1672,  it  was  ordered  that  Mr.  John  Baugh,  uncle  of  Thomas 
Lyne,  deceased,  be  granted  administration  on  his  estate.  "Mr.  William 
Baugh  "  patented  577  acres  in  Henrico  (now  Chesterfield),  on  the  north 
side  of  Appomattox  river,  January  16,  1668;  head  rights:  Wm.  Baugh, 
Sr.,  Wm.  Baugh,  Jr.,  &c.  This  William  Baugh,  Sr.,  is  the  first  ancestor 
to  whom  later  generations  of  the  family  can  be  traced.  In  1656,  he  was 
a  justice  of  Henrico.  He  was  born  certainly  not  later  than  1612,  for 
here  is  on  record  a  deposition  dated  December,  1682,  of  Mr.  William 
Baugh,  in  which  he  stated  his  age  as  "seventy  odd."  His  will  was 
proved  in  Henrico,  in  April,  1687;  legatees:  his  son-in-law  John  How- 
lett,  son  John  Baugh  (to  whom  he  gives  his  seal-ring),  grandson  John 
Baugh,  Katherine  Jones,  and  son  James  Baugh.  His  son  Wm.  Baugh, 
Jr.,  died  before  him.  In  August,  1678,  is  recorded  a  list  of  cattle  be- 
longing to  Mary  and  Priscilla,  orphans  of  Mr.  William  Baugh,  deceased. 
In  April,  1 68 1,  William  Baugh  [Sr.],  gent.,  of  Henrico,  made  a  deed 
conferring  to  his  granddaughter,  Priscilla  Baugh,  now  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Farrar,  a  tract  of  land  which  he  had,  in  1668,  given  to  his  grandson, 
William  Baugh,  and  in  1674  to  the  said  Priscilla. 

It  appears  from  various  depositions  that  the  son  John  Baugh  was  born 
in  1 64 1  or  1642.  In  1693  he  conveyed  to  his  brother  James,  a  tract  of 
land,  which  had  been  patented  by  their  father,  William  Baugh.  From 
a  deposition,  it  appears  that  James  was  bom  in  1658. 

The  records  of  Henrico  and  Chesterfield  contain  much  information 
in  regard  to  the  later  generations  of  this  family. 


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FITZHUGH  FAMILY. 
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14.  Henry*  Fitzhugh  {H^iiiam,*  IViUiam*)^  of  ''Eaglets  Nest,"  was 
bom  1706,  and  died  December  6,  1742  {Si.  P.  Reg.\  He  matriculated 
at  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  October  20,  1722,  and  on  his  return  to  Virginia 
settled  on  his  paternal  estate  in  Stafford  county  (now  King  George). 
He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses  in  1738,  1740,  1742,  and 
probably  other  years  {Joumals)^  and  was  once  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
for  the  place  of  Speaker.  A  notice  of  the  inventory  of  his  very  large 
and  valuable  estate  was  given  in  Vol  II,  278-9,  of  this  Magazine.  It 
included  a  library  of  books  valued  at  jf  258.  7.  9.  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Henry  Fitzhugh  ( a  rank  he  held  in  the  militia  of  Stafford)  married  Lucy, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Robert  Carter,  of  "Corotoman,*'  Lancaster  county. 
She  married,  secondly.  Colonel  Nathaniel  Harrison,  of  **  Brandon," 
Prince  George  (his  second  wife),  but  had  no  issue  by  this  marriage. 

Issue:  32.  lViiiiam^\  33.  Lucy,  born  October  6,  1736  {St.  P.  Reg.)\ 
34.  Elizabeth,*  bom  April  20,  1731  {St.  P.  Reg.),  married  Febmary  12, 
1747,  Benjamin  Grymes,  of  Spotsylvania  county.  Her  son,  Benjamin, 
was  ancestor  of  the  Grymes  family  of  King  George  county,  and  her 
daughter  the  mother  of  Bishop  William  Meade. 

19.  Henry*  Fitzhugh  {Henry,^  H^tttam*),  of  "Bedford,'*  born 
September  10,  1723,  "baptized  by  Rev.  David  Stuart,  and  had  for  sure- 
ties John  Fitzhugh,  his  uncle,  and  Henry  Fitzhugh,  his  cousin,  who  was 
then  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  but  was  represented  by  Henry  Berry- 
man,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Barbara  Fitzhugh,  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Berryman  "  (Famity 
Bible).  He  died  February,  1783.  He  married,  October  23d,  1746,  Sarah 
Battaile,  of  Caroline  county.  In  1752  he  was  colonel  of  the  Stafford 
militia  {Cat.  Va.  State  Pap.)  The  will  of  "Col.  Henry  Fitzhugh,  ot 
Bedford,  King  Geo.'-ge  county,  formerly  Stafford,"  was  dated  February 
12,  and  proved  in  King  George,  June  5,  1783  :  legatees— wife;  son  John 
Battaile  Fitzhugh,  lands  in  Caroline  and  Orange;  son  William,  land  on 
Cedar  Run,  Fauquier  county;  son  George,  land  on  Turkey  Run,  Fau- 
quier; son  Thomas,  a  tract  of  800  acres  in  Fauquier;  to  youngest  sons, 
Nicholas,  Richard,  Mordecai,  Battaile  and  Giles,  lands  in  Fairfax  called 
Ravensworth;  to  his  grandson  and  heir,  Henry  Fitzhugh,  all  his  lands 
in  King  George  and  Stafford.  The  portrait  of  this  Colonel  Henry  Fitz- 
hugh is  the  property  of  Mr.  F.  C.  Fitzhugh,  of  "  Bedford."  King  George 
county. 

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38.  George^\  39.  Thomas,  died  unmarried;  40.  Nicholas^;  41.  Richard*", 
42.  Mordecai  Cooke\  43.  BattaUe^\  44.  Giles,*  died  unmarried;  45. 
Sarah,*  married  Theoderick  Bland  (*'of  Ireland,'*  says  an  account),  and 
had  issue:  Chancellor  Theoderick •  Bland,  of  Maryland,  and  Mrs.  Sophia* 
Mayo;  46.  Susan,*  married  Townshend  Dade,  of  '*Albion,"  King  George 
county,  Va.,  and  had  issue;  John  B.*  (*'  Col.  Jack  "),  who  married  Eliza- 
beth Slaughter;  Cadwallader,"  d,  s.  p.;  Langhom,*  d,  s.  p.;  Susan,* 
married  Dr.  Isaac  Winston;  Lucy,*  married  Walter  C.  Winston,  of 
**  Auburn,'*  Culpeper  county;   Elizabeth,*  married  Captain  Feudal,  of 

Alexandria;  Wilmer,*  never  married;  Benjamin,*  married ;  Susan,* 

married  Wm.  Marbury;  Elizabeth,*  married  John  Marbury;  and  Mary,* 
never  married;  47.  Mary,*  married  Dr.  Stuart,  of  King  George. 

20.  Thomas*  Fitzhugh  (Henry,^  IVilliam^),  of  "  Boscobel,"  Staf- 
ford county;  bom  July  16,  1725;  died  December  ist,  1768;  married  first, 
October  18,  1746,  Catherine  Booth,  of  Gloucester  county,  who  died 
February,   1748,  without  issue.      He  married  secondly,  June  19,  1750 

•  (Par.  Rej^,),  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  David  Stuart,  of  King  George 
county.    She  died  November,  1783. 

Issue:  48.  Susannah,*  bom  1757;  died  at  *'  Belmont,"  near  Falmouth, 
Stafford  county,  1823.  She  married,  in  1763,  William  Knox,  of  "Wind- 
sor Lodge,"  Culpeper.     Her  portrait  appears  in  this  issue;  49.  Thomas.^ 

21.  John*  Fitzhugh  (Henry,^  William'^),  of  "Bellair,"  Stafford 
county;  born  June  30,  1727;  ''baptized  by  Rev.  David  Stuart;  had  for 
sureties  Mordecai  Cooke  and  W^illiam  Brent,  of  Peace  Neck;  also  Anna 
and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Buckner,  his  aunts."  He  married.  October  30,  1746, 
Alice  (bom  August  21,  1729;  died  March  5,  1790),  daughter  of  Rowland 
Thornton,  of  "Crowes,"  King  George,  and  died  May  ist,  1S09.  He 
does  not  appear  to  have  held  any  public  office,  except  perhaps  that  of 
iustice  of  the  peace. 

Issue:  50.  Henry^\  51.  John,*  bom  September  29,  1749;  died  Febmary 
9,  1807.  Did  he  marry  or  leave  issue  ?  52.  George,*  born  April  24,  1751; 
died  November.  1810.  There  is  on  record  in  King  George  a  deed,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1787,  from  John  Fitzhugh,  of  "  Bellair,"  and  his  son  George, 
conveying  to  Daniel  McCarty  Fitzhugh  473  acres  in  King  George,  called 
Feneaux,  or  the  Hop  Yard;  and  on  January  12,  1788,  George  Fitzhugh, 
of  King  George,  and  his  wife,  Humphrey  Frances  Toy  Fitzhugh,  con- 
veyed to  Thacker  Washington,  of  King  George,  a  tract  of  land  in  that 
county.  It  seems  probable  there  was  no  issue  of  this  marriage,  as  the 
will  of  Mrs.  Humphrey  Frances  Toy  Fitzhugh,  proved  in  King  George 
in  1791,  names  only  her  husband  and  niece,  Caroline  Matilda  Fitzhugh. 
Her  sumame  was  probably  Tabb;  54.  Thomas,*  bom  June  15,  1753. 
Did  he  marry  or  leave  issue?  55.  Elizabeth,*  born  October  10,  1754; 
died  February  21,  1823;  married  March  20,  1770,  Francis  Conway,  of 
**  Port  Conway,"  King  George,  who  served  in  the  Revolution  as  a  cap- 
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263.  &c. )  A  full  length  portrait  of  her,  by  Hesselius,  and  a  miniature 
have  been  preserved;  56.  Susannah,*  born  February  6,  1756;  died  March 
15,  1819;  married,  about  1775,  Catlett  Conway,  of  **Hawfield,"  Orange 
{Hayien,  264,  &c.)  57.  William,*  bom  August  11,  1757;  died  October 
4,  1803.     Did  he  marry  or  leave  issue?    58.  Alice,*  born  February  20, 

1759;  married  Pratt?    59.  Francis,  born  February  4.  1761;  died 

March  30,  1821.  His  will  was  dated  October  22d,  1798,  and  proved 
Aprils,  1821,  in  King  George  county.  He  leaves  his  whole  estate  to 
his  wife,  Lucy  W.  Fitzhugh,  with  reversion  of  most  of  it  at  her  death  to 
his  nephew,  Edwin,  son  of  Francis  Conway,  of  Caroline  county;  and  if 
he  dies,  then  to  his  brother,  John  Conway;  legacy  to  his  niece,  Lucy, 
daughter  of  his  brother,  Thomas  Fitzhugh.  Wife  and  nephew,  Francis 
Fitzhugh  Conway,  executrix  and  executor.  Codicil  giving  100  guineas 
to  his  nephew,  Francis,  son  of  his  brother,  John  Fitzhugh.  There  was 
no  issue,  as  Mrs.  Lucy  Fitzhugh,  in  her  will  dated  November  16,  1827, 
and  proved  in  King  George,  |uly  ist,  1830,  leaves  her  property  to  Sarah 
Ann  Beverley,  her  adopted  daughter,  and  to  her  (S.  A.  B.*s)  daughters; 
to  nephew  A.  S.  Hooe,  nephew  Wm.  C.  Posey,  and  to  Henry  M.  R. 
Beverley,  son  of  her  niece,  Sarah  Ann  Beverley.  There  is  in  King 
George  a  deed,  March  ist,  1795.  from  Francis  Fitzhugh  and  Lucy,  his 
wife  (late  widow  of  John  Taliaferro,  deceased),  of  King  George,  con- 
veying to  William  Thornton  Alexander  600  acres  in  King  George,  called 
"Hayes,"  which  was  the  dower  of  said  Lucy  as  widow  of  said  Talia- 
ferro—consideration:  love  and  affection  for  said  W.  T.  Alexander.  And 
also  a  deed,  August  2d,  1802,  from  John  Taliaferro,  Jr.,  administrator  o{ 
John  Taliaferro,  of  **  Hayes,"  deceased,  who  was  executor  of  Mrs.  Lucy 
Alexander,  late  of  King  George  county,  and  relict  of  John  Alexander, 
of  *' Salisbury,"  King  George,  reciting  that  the  said  Mrs.  Lucy  Alexan- 
der was  the  only  surviving  child  of  Colonel  William  Thornton,  of  King 
George,  many  years  deceased,  and  that  the  said  Lucy  Alexander,  in  her 
will,  January  6,  1781,  directed  that,  among  other  things,  50  acres  should 
be  sold  and  the  proceeds  divided  between  her  daughters,  Lucy  Talia- 
ferro, now  Lucy  Fitzhugh.  and  Mary  Thornton,  now  Mary  Posey;  60. 
Daniel  McCarty,*  of  King  George  county,  bom  May  9,  1763;  died  May 
2d,  1823;  died  without  issue;  61.  Sarah  Ann,*  born  February  13,  1765; 
died  in  Kentucky,  Novrmber,  1820;  married  Charles  Thornton,  of  "  North 
Garden,"  Caroline  county  (see  William  <2f  Mary  Quarterly,  VI,  109); 
62.  Thornton,*  bom  June  4,  1768;  died  June  29,  1814.  Did  he  marry  or 
have  issue?  63.  Ann  Rose,*  bom  December  26,  1769;  married  Dr. 
Henry  Fitzhugh  Thomton,  Caroline  county  ^see  William  (2f  Mary  Quar- 
terly, VI,  111);  64.  Frances*  ?  married  John  Waugh. 

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COLES  FAMILY. 
(concluded) 

*'  But  the  act  thus  adopted  could  not  itself  call  a  convention.  It  simply 
authorized  the  people  of  the  State  to  vote  on  a  proposition  to  hold  such 
a  convention  to  amend  the  Constitution,  and  to  vote  at  a  general  elec- 
tion to  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  August,  1824.  The  supporters  ol 
the  measure  reckoned  upon  their  large  majority,  but  they  reckoned 
without  Edward  Coles.  They  failed  to  take  into  account,  also,  the 
immense  power  of  sentiment  in  such  a  contest.  The  little  party  led  by 
Coles  was  thrice  armed.  It  could  point  to  the  ordinance  of  1787;  it 
could  quote  Mr.  Jefferson  on  the  evils  of  slavery  as  injurious  to  whites 
as  well  as  blacks,  and  it  could  point  to  the  unseating  of  Hansen  as  a 
deliberate  outrage  of  the  first  rank.  As  a  leader.  Governor  Coles  rose 
to  the  occasion.  He  had  been  reared  in  a  political  school  where  it  was 
still  believed  that  a  sound  public  opinion  might  be  cultivated  by  intelli- 
gent discussion.  He  called  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Legislature 
who  were  opposed  to  a  convention,  and  a  strong  address,  probably 
written  by  himself,  and  in  a  style  worthy  of  Madison,  was  prepared, 
printed  and  circulated.  The  campaign  of  education  went  on  in  the 
press  with  a  multitude  of  pamphlets,  as  well  as  by  oral  debate.  The 
advocates  of  free  soil  in  the  East  were  appealed  to,  chiefly  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  gave  their  assistance  to  the  literary  bureau.  Among  them, 
.Robert  Vaux,  a  prominent  Quaker,  caused  three  tracts  to  be  prepared, 
treating  respectively  of  the  unprofitableness  of  slave  labor,  the  abuses 
of  the  slave  trade,  and  the  general  injustice  of  the  system.  Morris  Bir- 
beck,  an  Englishman  of  education,  who  had  established  a  colony  in 
Edwards  county,  111.,  published  a  series  of  letters  signed  by  'Jonathan 
Freeman,'  which  were  widely  read.  Governor  Coles  himself  spent  all 
his  salary  and  much  of  his  private  fortune  in  the  campaign.  At  last, 
after  nearly  two  years  of  bitter  contest  and  excited  debate,  the  day  of 
election  arrived.  The  question  nominally  was,  Should  a  convention  be 
called  ?  but  in  reality  it  was,  Should  Illinois  be  a  slave  State  or  a  free 
State  ? 

"The  proposition  for  a  convention  was  defeated  by  a  majority  of  1,872 
out  of  a  vote  of  1 1,772,  and  Illinois  remained  a  free  State. 

"  In  1826  Governor  Coles  delivered  his  valedictory  message.  In  1833 
he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  married  to  a  daughter  of 
Mugh  Roberts,  a  descendant  of  the  Hugh  Roberts  who  came  to  America 
with  William  Penn.  It  may  be  interesting  to  note  that,  though  he  was 
a  true  philanthropist,  who  was  willing  to  make  any  sacrifice  of  money 
or  time  to  accomplish  what  he  thought  to  be  for  the  highest  good  of  his 
fellow-men,  he  was  in  no  way  a  sentimentalist  or  a  crank.  He  was 
essentially  a  man  of  affairs,  keen,  careful,  orderly,  successful.  While  he 
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FV>  »KER  FAMILY, 

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Captain  Richard*  B»kcr.  <A   Gl.-ijctr^er    ><^  iwco  <kV  >>    ^.v  ^s^n- 
ond  inarnaj:e,  »:ih   Hann=»h   Hand,  had,  as  ur  kr*vn\n,  t>*\^  ^I   v  \-?' 
Mrs.  Franctrs  Slokc^  and  Gtrv»T^e*  lUx^ker,  1^*  Ci).^;kx^:ct  ^\n  'six       W 
latter  W3S  li\ing  in  that  cx>unty  in  1751.  ifcht'ii  h;>  n^vtct,  M'x  S^.n^ov  V 
queathed  property  to  him.  and  then  had  issue:  71     Kuhan;  *.  '  ?  1  h^n\  v>  * 

73.   Edward*;  74.  Sarah.*  married  MunUMxI.     iM  Kn  ^,^;\i.*  v^jsl 

George,*  there  is  at  present  no  ceruiin  intomiativ^n,  cv\>t  j^l  t*\^t  jn  .  n^k 
Edward  •  Booker  makes  bet^uests  to  their  childrxn,  \\  n^.w  Iv  th,u 
George*  Booker  was  the  pers<.>n  of  the  name  whtxsc  will  \\a>  d,u^\1  iV 
tober  13,  and  proved  December  22,  1791,  in  An)oha.  Ho  Nn^u*  ,uSv  u> 
his  5on  George  {if  said  George  returns  to  the  Slate),  the  land  ht  lu^^l 
on;  bequests  to  sons  Richardson  and  Etlord  BiH>koj,  |ijan^M.ui\:hu  < 
Sally  Marshall  Booker,  grandson  George  B<H>ker.  daiii^htotx  Fduh,  S.* 
rah,  Grace,  and  Judith;  and  granddaughter  S,dly  Kuhosv>n  H\hKon 

73.  Edward*  Booker,  died  in  1761.  His  will,  datevt  Noxxn^ho*  i,\ 
1760,  and  proved  in  Amelia,  June  25,  1761,  contains  InquoM^  u>  luv  chil 
dren  George  and  Lucy  Booker,  the  children  of  his  br\>!lu  rs  iit^>»Ke  an<l 
Richard  Booker,  and  his  sister  Sarah  Munford;  and  his  bn>thr»  \\\  h\\\, 
James  Clarke.  We  have  no  further  information  in  re>;ard  to  tins  l>iatu  h 
of  the  family.  It  may  be  that  George  Booker,  the  son  nanu  d  in  the 
will,  was  the  one  who  removed  to  Elizabeth  City  county. 


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Thc  foUouing  marriage  bonds,  relating  to  inetnbers  of  tbe  Booker 
Camily,  are  on  record  in  Amelia:  October,  1792,  Samuel  BaskerviDe  and 
Statira  Booker;  September,  1761,  Edvard  Booker  and  Mary  Bentley; 
October  22,  1761,  Peter  Bland  and  Judith  Booker;  December  5,  1756, 
Stith  Hardaway  and  Purii>'  Booker;  June  23,  1763,  Richard  Booker  and 
Martha  Robertson,  June  27,  1765,  James  Hill  and  Ann  Booker;  Decem- 
ber 4,  1 764,  John  Booker  and  Susan,  daughter  of  John  Pride;  September 
5,  1760,  James  Taylor  and  Martha  Booker,  widow;  April  18,  1767,  James 
Henderson  and  Mary  Marshall  Parham  Booker;  May  14,  176S,  William 
(son  of  William)  Booker  and  Edith  (daughter  of  George)  Booker;  April 
17,  1769,  Leonard  Cheatham  and  Mary  Booker;  July  27,  1777,  Robert 
Hudson  and  Jean  Booker;  January,  1797,  Moses  0\er5treet  and  Mary 
Booker;  July,  1798,  Jesse  Mosby  and  Judith  Booker;  January,  1798, 
Moses  Overton  and  Hide  Booker;  May,  1798,  John  W\  Selden  and  Ann 
Booker;  September,  1800,  Davis  Booker  and  Sarah  Booker;  January, 
1800,  Edward  Eggleston  and  Judith  Booker;  April,  1800.  John  G.  Jeffer- 
son and  Ann  Booker;  May,  1800,  Parham  Booker  and  Elizabeth  Oxer- 
ton;  January,  1799,  Daniel  Booker  and  Marv*  Winston;  May,  1801,  Mat- 
thew Moseley  and  Mary  Booker;  February,  1801,  Austin  Seay  and  Sally 
M.  Booker;  June,  1803.  John  Robertson  and  Elizabeth  Booker;  Novem- 
ber, 1803,  Joseph  Scott  and  Caroline  Booker;  July,  1S05,  Archer  Rob- 
ertson and  Nanc)'  M.  Booker;  November,  1S07,  Joseph  Woodson  and 
Sarah  M.  Booker;  Februar>-,  1808,  Armistead  T.  Townes  and  Rebecca 
Booker;  January,  1809,  John  Chaffinand  Eliza  Booker;  November,  1812, 
William  Branch  and  Jane  Da\*is  Booker;  December,  1812,  W.  H.  Crit- 
tenton  and  Nanc>'  H.  Booker;  December,  1812,  William  M.  Booker  and 
Sally  T.  Blankenship;  March,  1824,  James  Dabbsand  Pink  Davis  Booker; 
January-,  18 14,  Peter  Rison  and  Sally  B.  Booker;  December,  181 5,  Rich- 
ardson Booker  and  Ann  Booker;  February',  1S16,  Thomas  Montague 
and  Theodosia  Booker;  October,  18 16,  J.  T.  Booker  and  Lucy  Winfree; 
January,  1818,  W.  J.  Scott  and  Frances  Booker;  November  13,  1778,  Jos- 
eph Scott  and  Eliza  (ward  of  Richard)  Booker;  October  28,  1779,  Bar- 
ton Hudson  and  Elizabeth  Booker;  December  20,  17S0,  John  Childress 
and  Sarah  B<joker;  January-,  17S1,  Edmond  Booker  and  Mary  Pride; 
January  28,  17&1,  James  Hill  and  Frances  Booker;  February  25,  1783, 
Kftord  Booker  and  Mary  Hudson;  August  18,  1783,  Edward  Booker  and 
Mary  H.,  daughter  of  Isham  Clements;  January  3,  1782,  John  Walthall 
and  Grace  Booker;  October  18,  1783,  John  Overstreet  and  Kitty  Booker; 
October  27,  1783,  Edward  Booker  and  Edith  Cobbs  Anderson;  Decem- 
l>er  25,  1784,  Samuel  Booker  and  Martha  (daughter  of  James)  Munford; 
December  27,  1789,  Richard  Booker  and  Jane  Hudson;  February  4, 
1785.  Samuel  Booker  and  Rachel  Jones;  February  22,  1786,  Pinkamin 
[Pinhcthman]  Davis  Booker  and  Manha  P.  Pride;  May  24,  1787,  Abso- 
lom  Farmer  and  Gracey  Booker;  April  4,  1790,  Blackburn  Hughes  and 
Judith    Booker;  September,   1792,  James  Townes  and  Rachel  Marrott 


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Booker;  October,  1795,  Granville  Moody  and  Mary  Booker;  February, 
1796,  Richard  Booker  and  Sarah  Cobbs;  December,  1821,  William  M. 
Booker  and  Cene  Pater  Hutchinson;  December,  1823,  Richard  D.  Booker 
and  Nancy  Jane  Ford;  October,  1825,  Henry  E.  Graves  and  Caroline  M. 
Booker;  March,  1826,  William  M.  Booker  and  Mary  Crittenden;  Sep- 
tember, 1826,  Isham  C.  Booker  and  Elizabeth  E.  Jeter;  December  28, 
1828,  William  A.  Willson  and  Martha  H.,  daughter  of  J.  F.  Booker;  May 
12,  1762,  William  Bibb  and  Hannah  Booker. 

The  following  has  been  communicated  by  a  correspondent  in  West 
Virginia.  He  states  that  there  is  a  presumption  that  the  father  of  Lewis 
Booker  was  George  Booker  and  his  mother  Miss  Tabb.  It  will  be  ob- 
served that  in  this  account  the  generations  are  numbered  from  Lewis 
Booker. 

Lewis  Booker,  of  Gloucester,  bom  May  2r,  1754,  was  Lieutenant 
in  Gloucester  militia.  Commissioned  Oiptain-Lieutenant  Company  8, 
Colonel  Charles  Harrison's  Virginia  and  Maryland  Regiment  Artillery, 
January  13,  1777.  At  Valley  Forge,  June  3,  1778.  At  Smith's  Clove, 
July  4,  1779.  Furloughed  from  park  of  artillery  at  Morristown,  1780. 
Received  military  warrant  for  4,666^  acres,  January  31,  1784.  Received 
military  warrant  for  555  acres,  February  11,  1808.  Married  Judith  Dud- 
ley, of  Gloucester,  February  7,  1788. 

He  settled  at  **  Laurel  Grove,'*  Essex  county.  Died  December  23, 
1814.     His  wife  died  October  16,  1817. 

Issue:  I.  Dorothy,'  bom  Febmary  24,  1790;  married  Wm.  A.  Gamett, 
November  12,  1812.  Issue:  George  L.,*  born  Febmary  26,  1818,  and 
died  October  19,  1836;  2.  James*;  3.  Elizabeth,'  bom  March,  1793;  mar- 
ried Henry  H.  Baughan;  no  issue;  4.  Mary,'  bom  May  26,  1796;  mar- 
ried Dr.  A.  H.  Fauntle  Roy,  June  3,  1818;  no  issue;  5.  George  Tabb'; 
6.  Lewis,'  born  May  12,  1799;  died  March  9,  1832;  never  married;  7. 
Sarah,'  married  Muscoe  Garnett,  March  29,  1827;  issue:  seven  children 
(fully  traced);  8.  William,'  bom  1807;  died  April  27,  1828,  unmarried; 
9.  Judith,'  bom  February  29,  1808;  married  John  L.  Cox,  June  20,  1830: 
died  1895;  no  issue. 

2.  James  Booker,*  born  June  26, 1791;  married  Anne  Throckmorton, 
January  it,  1814.  Settled  at  New  Market,  Shenandoah  county,  Va. 
Moved  to  Ohio,  near  Columbus,  1838,  and  settled  upon  a  portion  of  his 
father's  military  land  warrant. 

Issue:  10.  Elizabeth,' married  Fitzgerald;  11.  William,' died  without 
issue;  12.  James  Webb';  13.  George  Albert';  14.  Erasmus';  15.  Emily,' 
married  George  Browning;  16.  Samuel  Marion,'  died  without  issue. 

5.  George  Tabb'  Booker,  born  October  15,  1797.  Married  Caro- 
line Richardson,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Coleman 
(Pollard),  November  19,  1838.  Issue:  17.  Ellen,' unmarried;  18.  Lewis'; 
19.  Thomas,'  unmarried;  20.  Elizabeth  Taylor,'  married  Robert  F.  Jen- 
nings;  issue:  three  children;   21.  Mary  Gamett,'  died  unmarried;   22. 


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Carrie,'  married  the  Rev.   Robert  Douglas  Roller,  D.  D.;  issue:  five 
children. 

12.  James  Webb'  Booker  (James^  Leivis). 

13.  George  Albert'  Booker  (James*  Letvis). 

14  Erasmus'  Booker  {James}  Letvis),  bom  September  10,  1825. 
in  Shenandoah  Valley;  a  physician  of  Richmond  county,  Va.;  married 
first,  Olivia  C.  Anderson;  issue:  \.  Erasmus  Carrington*;  2.  Judson*; 
3.  Annie*;  4.  Ida*;  married  second,  Elizabeth  Eubank;  issue:  5.  Eugene.* 

18.  Lewis'  Booker  (George  Tabb}  Lewis) ^  married  Lucy  Landon 
Page;  issue:  i.  Mary  Page*;  2.  George  T.*;  3.  Bettie  Burwell*;  4. 
Caroline  Richardson,*  died;  5.  Lucy  Armistead,*  died;  6.  Ellen  Pollard,* 
died;  7.  Lillie  Brook*;  8.  Lewis.* 

Descendants  of  twelve  and  thirteen  to  enter  here,  and  then  comes 
Erasmus  Carrington*  Booker  (Erasmus}  James}  Lewis),  married 
Sarah  Eubank;  issue:  i.  Carrington*;  2.  James  Judson*;  3.  Robert 
Eubank*;  4.  Mary  B.*;  5  Ada.* 

Judson*  Booker  (Erasmus y^  James} LeTvis),  married Thomas; 

issue:  i.  Felicia  Gamett *:  2.  Hubert.* 

(TO  be  continued.) 


FARRAR  FAMILY. 
(  continued) 

Nicholas'  and  Mary  Ferrar,  of  London,  had  issue:  2.  John^\  3. 
Erasmus,' bom  1591;  barrister-at-law;  died  without  issue;  4.  Nicholas^-, 
5.  Richard,'  of  London;  merchant;  had  an  only  son,  Richard,*  who  was 
aged  25  years  in  1684,  and  was  then  unmarried;  6.  Wiiliam^\  7.  Joyce*; 
8.  Susan,*  married  John  CoUett. 

2.  John'  Ferrar,  born  1590.  was  an  active  and  influential  member 
of  the  Virginia  Company,  and  was  a  member  of  the  royal  council  for 
that  body.  He  was  deputy  treasurer  of  the  Company  from  April  28, 
1619,  to  May  22,  1622;  M.  P.  for  Tam worth,  1621-22,  and  wrote  memoirs 
of  his  brother  Nicholas  and  son  Nicholas  (who  died  in  1640).  He  retired 
with  his  brother  to  Little  Gidding,  where  he  died  September  28,  1657. 
By  his  second  marriage  with  Bathsheba  Owen,  he  had  a  daughter,  Vir- 
ginia (of  course,  named  for  the  Colony),  who  throughout  life  took  an 
active  interest  in  the  country  for  which  she  was  named;  was  an  earnest 
supporter  of  the  attempt  to  introduce  silk  culture  into  Virginia,  and  in 
1651  published  a  map  of  the  Colony. 

4.  Nicholas*  Ferrar,  bom  February  23,  159.^,  died  December  2, 
1637,  was  one  of  the  wisest  and  best  friends  the  infant  Colony  of  Vir- 
ginia ever  had.  From  early  youth  his  talents  and  virtues  excited  high 
expectations.  He  entered  Clare  Hall,  Cambridge,  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen, and  in  1610  took  his  B.  A.  degree  and  was  elected  a  fellow  of  his 
college.  His  desire  was  to  reside  at  Cambridge;  but  his  health  failing, 
he  was  advised  to  travel,  and  went  abroad  in  April,  1613,  in  the  suite  of 


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the  Princess  Elizabeth,  who  had  recently  married  the  Elector  Palatine. 
He  had  previously  received  from  his  university  the  degree  of  M.  A.  At 
Amsterdam  he  left  the  Elector's  party,  and  for  several  years  travelled 
and  studied  in  Germany,  Italy  and  Spain,  returning  to  England  in  1618. 
He  wished  to  return  to  Cambridge,  but  his  father  was  old  and  the  busi- 
ness concerns  of  the  firm  were  more  than  his  elder  brother  could  manage 
by  himself.  So  he  remained  in  London  and  entered  actively  into  the 
business  and  political  affairs  of*  the  time.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Virginia  Company  in  1619,  and  was  its  deputy  treasurer  from  May  22, 
1622,  to  July,  1624.  With  the  Earl  of  Southampton  and  Sir  Edwin 
Sandys,  he  led  the  liberal  party  in  the  Company.  All  writers  have 
agreed  in  praising  the  zeal  and  ability  he  displayed  while  holding  this 
office.  As  has  been  said,  he  **  deserves  our  highest  regard  as  the  very 
soul  of  that  colonization  scheme."  **Ferrar  was  the  author  of  all  the  vari- 
ous letters  of  introduction  to  the  colonial  governors,  to  the  Colony,  of  the 
defences  against  the  chicanery  and  assaults  of  the  Court,  at  the  Council 
table  and  in  the  courts— to  him  aU  went  for  advice  and  information,  and 
in  him  centered  all  the  Company's  affairs."  It  was  to  Nicholas  Ferrar 
that  the  preservation  of  the  copies  of  the  records  of  the  Company  is  due. 
After  the  dissolution  of  the  Company,  he  was  M.  P.  for  Lymington, 
1624-25;  but  becoming  wearied  of  public  life,  and  desirous  of  carrying 
out  certain  religious  ideas  he  had  long  entertained,  he  retired  with  his 
mother  and  others  to  Little  Gidding,  in  Huntingdonshire,  where  he 
established  the  monastic-like  community  which  became  so  celebrated. 
In  1626  he  was  ordained  deacon.  Constant  religious  exercises  and  good 
works  was  the  rule  of  the  house.  Not  long  afterwards  John  Ferrar  and 
their  brother-in-law,  John  Collett,  transferred  their  families  to  Little 
Gidding.  There  was  no  requirement  of  celibacy,  for  several  of  Mrs. 
Collett's  daughters  were  married  from  the  house.  **The  institution  at 
Little  Gidding  did  not  profess  to  be  the  beginning  of  an  order;  it  aimed 
at  nothing  but  the  organization  of  a  family  life  on  the  basis  of  putting 
devotion  in  the  first  place  among  practical  duties." 

A  number  of  lives  of  Nicholas  Ferrar  have  appeared,  and  much  has 
been  written  in  regard  to  the  community  he  founded.  Nicholas  Ferrar 
died  unmarried.  His  portrait,  by  Janssen,  is  in  the  Master's  Lodge  at 
Magdalen  College,  Cambridge. 

6.  William  Ferrar,  or  Farrar,  has  been  stated  by  all  the  most 
authoritative  writers  on  early  Virginia  history,  such  as  Mr.  Brown  and 
Mr.  Neill,  to  have  been  a  son  of  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Sr.,  of  London,  and  a 
brother  of  John  and  Nicholas  Ferrar,  and  the  present  writer  has  no 
doubt  that  this  is  true;  but  it  should  be  stated  that  no  positive  proof  of 
the  fact  has  ever  been  produced.  That  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Sr.,  had  a  son, 
William,  is  certain.  The  records  of  the  Middle  Temple  show  the  ad- 
mission. May  10,  1610,  of  "William  Ferrar,  third  son  of  Nicholas  Fer- 
rar, of  the  City  of  London,  gent"     A  lady  who  has  with  much  labor 


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and  expense  gathered  extensive  material  for  a  history  of  the  family,  has 
kindly  allowed  her  collections  to  be  used  in  preparing  this  genealogy. 
In  this  collection  is  a  chart  pedigree,  prepared  a  year  or  two  ago  by  an 
English  genealogist,  which  gives  among  the  sons  of  Nicholas  Ferrar, 
Sr.,  "William,  bom  1587,  a  barrister,  who  has  two  children  whose 
names  are  given  in  the  chart,  Elizabeth  and  John."  This  would  be  im- 
portant testimony,  but  unfortunately  no  authority  is  given.  Mr.  Brown, 
in  the  Genesis,  says  William  Farrar  was  bom  in  1594-5.  In  the  Virginia 
census  of  1624-5,  the  **  Muster  of  Mr.  William  Farrar  and  Mrs.  Jordan  " 
at  Jordan's  Joumey  is  given,  and  it  is  stated  that  William  Farrar,  aged  31 
years  [at  the  date  of  the  census],  came  to  Virginia  in  the  ship  Neptune 
in  1618.  It  is  from  this  evidently  that  Mr.  Brown  derives  the  date  of  his 
birth.  It  is  also  evident  that  the  date  given  in  the  chart  pedigree  must 
be  wrong  as  to  a  son  of  the  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Sr.,  here  treated  of,  for  it 
is  known  that  his  eldest  son,  John,  was  bom  in  1590. 

It  should  also  be  noted  that  neither  Nicholas  Ferrar,  Sr.,  nor  his  wife 
make  any  mention  of  a  son  William  in  their  wills.  It  is  hoped  the  de- 
sired proof  may  be  discovered. 

(Since  the  above  was  in  type,  the  compiler  has  seen  a  letter,  dated 
Febmary  2,  1900,  from  Mr.  M.  LI.  Ferrar,  of  Ealing,  Eng.,  the  chief 
authority  on  the  family,  who  says:  *'  We  have  all  along  thought  that 
William  Ferrar,  who  went  to  Virginia,  died  young—/.  <?.,  unmarried; 
but  now  we  know  that  we  were  wrong.  I  had  only  known  that  he  was 
alive  in  1621  in  Virginia.") 

William  Ferrar,  or  Farrar,  who  came  to  Virginia  in  1618,  soon  became 
a  man  of  prominence.  He  was  a  commissioner  (magistrate)  for  **  The 
Upper  Parts  ";  a  member  of  the  Council.  1623  to  1633,  or  more  probably 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  some  time  prior  to  June  ri,  1637.  He 
is  commonly  stated  to  have  married  Cicely,  widow  of  Samuel  Jordan; 
but  there  is  no  positive  proof  of  this.  The  only  reference  to  the  matter 
in  the  records  is  the  statement  that  Mrs.  Jordan  had  first  engaged  herself 
to  marry  Rev.  Greville  Pooley,  and  aftewards  William  Farrar,  and  that 
the  authorities  in  Virginia  referred  to  those  in  England  the  question 
whether  she  could  legally  marry  Farrar  after  her  promise  to  Pooley,  or 
whether  the  pre-contract  made  any  subsequent  engagement  void.  The 
result  does  not  appear,  but  it  is  probable  that  William  Farrar  did  marry 
Mrs.  Jordan. 

Issue  of  William*  Farrar:  9.    lVilliam*\  10.  John} 

(TO   BE  CONTINUED.) 


ESKRIDGE,  OF  VIRGINIA. 

(communicated.) 

Tradition  tells  us  that  in  the  latter  part  of  the  17th  century,  George 
Eskridge,  who  was  a  young  law  student,  while  walking  along  the  shore 


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on  the  north  coast  of  Wales  studying  one  of  his  law  books,  was  sud- 
denly siezed  by  the  Press  Gang,  carried  aboard  ship,  and  brought  to  the 
Colony  of  Virginia.  As  the  custom  was,  he  was  sold  to  a  planter  for  a 
term  of  eight  years.  During  that  time  he  was  not  allowed  to  communi- 
cate with  his  friends  at  home.  He  was  treated  very  harshly,  and  made 
to  sleep  on  the  hearth  in  the  kitchen.  On  the  day  that  his  term  expired, 
the  planter  found  him  tearing  up  the  stones  of  the  hearth  with  a  mattock. 
Upon  being  asked  what  he  was  doing,  young  Esk ridge  replied  that  a 
guest's  bed  was  always  pulled  to  pieces  upon  their  departure,  and  he 
was  doing  likewise.  He  then  threw  down  his  mattock  and  walked  out 
of  the  house.  During  the  eight  years  in  Virginia,  his  law  book,  which 
he  brought  away  with  him,  was  his  constant  companion.  He  made  his 
way  back  to  England,  completed  his  law  studies,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  then  sent  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia  as  a  judge  of  the  King's 
Bench  [there  was  never  such  an  office  in  Virginia.— Ed.]  About  1700 
he  married  Miss  Hannah  Ashton.  From  the  year  1702  until  1729  he  was 
granted  thousands  of  acres  of  land  in  the  eastern  part  of  Virginia.  He 
held  several  colonial  positions,  which  have  been  stated  before  in  this 
Magazine.  The  original  portraits  of  George  Eskridge  and  his  wife, 
Hannah  Ashton,  together  with  some  very  valuable  pieces  of  silver  which 
George  E.  brought  to  this  country,  are  in  the  possession  of  General 
Peter  C.  Rust,  of  New  York. 

George*  Eskridge  seated  Sandy  Point,  Westmoreland  county,  Va., 
about  1720.  The  old  house  was  standing  until  two  years  ago,  when  it 
was  destroyed  by  fire. 

The  children  of  George  Eskridge  and  Hannah  Ashton  were:  i. 
George*;  2.  William';  3.  Samuel*;  4.  Robert*;  5.  Sarah*;  6.  Marga- 
ret*; 7.  Elizabeth.* 

1.  George*  (George*),  married  Priscilla  ,  of  Dorchester,  Md. 

He  died  leaving  four  sons,  who  were  not  of  age  when  their  grandfather's 
will  was  probated  in  1735. 

2.  William  *  (George  *),  married ,  and  had  a  son  George* 

George*  (William,*  George  *),  married ,  and  had  William.* 

I  This  is  the  only  one  of  the  sons  I  know  of. ) 

William*  (George,*  William,*  George*),  married  Elizabeth  Scott,  of 
Maryland,  and  had:  r.  William;  2.  George;  3.  James  Wood;  4.  Thomas 
Parker;  5.  Perry;  6.  Cornelius,  died  unmarried;  7.  Eleanor;  8.  Elizabeth. 

William*  (William,*  George,*  William,*  George'),  married  Marga- 
ret Frances  Brown.  They  had  no  sons,  but  several  daughters.  The 
eldest  married  Colonel  R.  T.  W.  Duke,  of  Chariottesville,  Va. 

George*  (William,*  George,*  William,*  George'),  married  Margaret 
Chambers.  They  had  twelve  children,  but  only  the  following  names 
can  be  found:  1.  William;  2.  Annie  Elizabeth;  3.  Thomas  Parker;  4. 
John  Brown;  5.  Alexander  Parker;  6.  Mary  Eleanor. 

William*  (George,*   W^illiam.*  George,*  William,*    George'),   mar- 


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ried  Mary  Eleanor  Randolph  Peyton,  and  had  one  son:  i.  William  Pey- 
ton, unmarried. 

Anne*  (George,*  William,*  George,*  William,'  George*),  married 
John  Collins  Corill,  of  New  York.  They  had  two  daughters:  i.  Mary 
Avery;  2.  Anne  Eskridge,  both  married. 

Thomas*  Parker  (George,*  William,*  George,*  William,'  George*), 
married  Margaret  Brooke,  and  had  four  children:  i.  Brooke;  2.  Eliza- 
beth; 3.  Margaret;  4.  Mary;  all  married. 

John*  Brown  and  Alexander*  Parker  (George,*  William,*  George,' 
W*illiam,*  George '),  died  unmarried. 

Mary*  Eleanor  (George,*  William,*  George,'  William,'  George*), 
married  first,  Dr.  J.  C.  M.  Merrillat,  of  France;  second,  R.  S.  Albert, 
of  Baltimore,  Md. 

James*  Wood  (William,*  George,*  William,'  George*),  married  Lucy 
Jane  Jefferson  Peyton,  of  Virginia;  had  two  daughters.  The  second 
married  Charles  Fisher,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  had  two  daughters: 

1.  Mary,  married  Mark  Valentine,  of  Little  Rock,  Ark.;  2.  Louisa,  mar- 
ried Howard  Crittenden,  of  California. 

Elizabeth  Scott,  daughter  of  Thomas  Parker  E.,  married  J.  E.  Mac- 
Gavock.    They  have  two  children:    i.  J.   E.   MacGavock,  unmarried; 

2.  Mary  Eskridge,  married. 

[Later  various  extracts  from  county  records,  &c.,  in  regard  to  the 
family  will  be  printed. — Ed.] 

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YATES  FAMILY. 

(CONTINUED) 

William*  Yates,  of  Shack erley,  died  1691;  married  ,  and  had: 

I.  John;  2.  Mary;  3.  William;  4.  Benjamin;  5.  .Samuel;  6.  Francss;  7. 
Richard;  8.  John;  9.  Robert;  10.  Bartholomew,*  born  August  24,  1676. 
married  in  1704,  Sarah  Mickleborough. 

Bartholomew  *  and  Sarah  Yates  had  issue:  i.  Catherine;  2.  Bartholo- 
mew; 3.  Robert;  4.  Frances;  5.  William.*  born  December  10,  1720; 
died  1764;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Randolph 

William*  and  Elizabeth  (Randolph)  Yates  had  issue:  i.  Edward 
Randolph;  2.  Sarah;  3.  William,*  colonel  in  Virginia  line  during  Revo- 
lution; "lieutenant-colonel  on  Washington's  staff;"  married,  first,  June 
22,  1777,  Ann  Isham  Poythress,  who  died  June  24,  1784,  aged  twenty- 
four  years. 

Colonel  William*  and  Ann  I.  (Poythress)  Yates  had  issue:  r.  William, 
born  March  5,  1778;  married  Mrs.  Randolph,  and  died  in  Greenville, 
Miss.,  without  issue;  2.  Benjamin  Poythress,*  born  April  7,  1780;  3.  The- 
oderick,  died  in  infancy.     Colonel  William*  Yates,  married  secondly, 


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September  21,  1785,  Elizabeth  Booth,  and  had  issue:  4.  Ann,  born  May 
21,  1788,  married  Thomas  Gholson.  Colonel  William  ♦  Yates  died  De- 
cember 2,  1789,  and  his  widow  married  Colonel  Miles  Cary. 

Benjamin  Poythress*  Yates  married,  first,  December  18,  1805,  Sophia 
(died  March  23,  1809),  daughter  of  Captain  Buckner  Stith  and  Ann 
Walker,  his  wife,  and  had  issue:  i.  William,*  born  November  18,  1806, 
2.  Marienne,  died  in  infancy.  Benjamin  P.*  Yates  married,  secondly, 
March  10,  1810,  Elizabeth  Frances  Stith,  and  had  issue:  3.  Sophia,*  born 
December  10,  181 1,  married  Frederick  Fishback,  of  Jeffersonton,  Cul- 
peper  county,  Va.,  and  had:  William,'  of  F*ort  Worth,  Texas,  who  mar- 
ried Adelaide  Miller,  and  had:  (a)  Lewis,*  of  Galveston,  Texas;  (b) 
Bertha,*  married  Joseph  Sydney  Wheless,  of  Galveston;  (c)  William 
Meade;*  (d)  Maria  Adelaide;"  Frederick'  (Fishback),  married  Sophia 
Stith,  and  had  issue:  (a)  Etta,*  married  Donald  Simpson,  of  Carrolton, 
Ills.;  (b)  Catherine,*  married  Charles  Eldred,  ot  Carrolton,  Ills.;  (c; 
Edith  Virginia,*  married  Dr.  James  Howard  Bums,  of  Carrolton,  Ills.; 
(d;  David  Meade;*  (e)  Frank;*  (f)  Frederick,*  all  of  CarroUton,  Ills.; 
Lucy'  (Fishback)  married  John  Smith  P.,  of  Fort  Smith,  Ark.;  Sallie 
A.'  (Fishback),  of  CarroUton,  Ills.;  Frances  Elizabeth'  (Fishback ), mar- 
ried Frederick  Ventress,  and  had  Frederick,  Cornelia  M.,  and  Frederick 
Vedder.     (4)  Benjamin  D.*  (Yates)  married  Elizabeth  Forbes. 

Benjamin  Poythress*  Yates  died  at  his  plantation,  Grampian  Hills, 
near  Petersburg,  Va.,  March  18,  18 17. 

William*  Yates  (son  of  B.  P.  Y.)  married,  first,  Frances  Jane,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Anne  (Pucket)  Hinton,  of  Raleigh,  N.  C,  and  had  issue: 
I.  David  Stith,  married,  but  died  withont  issue;  2.  John  Hinton,  died  in 
infancy;  3.  Mary  Ann '  (died  June  5,  1899),  married  Rev.  Joseph  Rogers 
Armstrong,  of  Kirkwood,  Mo.,  and  had  a  son,  John  Hinton;"  4.  Benja- 
min,' married  Mary  Cooper,  and  has  two  sons,  Benjamin  William,*  and 
Francis,*  of  Soda,  Kansas;  5.  Charles  Hinton,'  died  without  issue;  6. 
Poythress,' married,  and  living  in  Springfield,  Ills.;  Mrs.  Frances  Jane 
Hinton  Yates  died  June  20,  1850. 

William  *  Yates  married,  secondly,  Elizabeth  Amie  Murphy,  daughter 
of  John  Randolph  and  Malinda  Harlan,  of  Cumberland  county,  Ken- 
tucky, and  widow  of  Charles  Marr  Hinton,  and  had  issue:  7.  Frederick 
Ferdinand,'  married  Anna  Bred  well,  and  had  issue:  Virginia,*  Meade 
Randolph,*  Elizabeth,*  and  Julia;*  8.  Meade  Walters;'  9.  Frances  Eliz- 
abeth; '  10.  Julia  Stith;  '11.  Grace  Eleska. 

William*  Yates  died  at  his  home,  400  W.  Cook  street,  Springfield, 
Ills.,  April  7,  1872. 

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BASSETT— STITH. 
Mr.  Charles  P.  Keith,  in  his  Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  erro- 


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neously  says  (page  30),  that  Joanna  Bassett  d.  of  William  Bassett  and 
Elizabeth  Churchill,  married  John  Stith. 

Joanna  Bassett  m.  Anderson  Stith,  son  of  John  Stith,  third  of  that 
name  in  Virginia,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Anderson.  Elizabeth  Ander- 
son was  a  d.  of  Rev.  Charles  Anderson,  of  Westover,  who  was  an  an- 
cestor of  President  John  Tyler  (see  4  Wi/iiam  and  Mary  ColUge  Quar- 
terly^ p.  127). 

The  issue  of  Joanna  Bassett  and  Anderson  Stith  were: 

I.  Bassett  Stith,  of  Halifax,  N.  C,  m.  July  8,  1790,  Mary  Long,  d.  of 

Colonel  Nicholas  Long,  of  Halifax,  N.  C.     Issue: 

1.  Lavinia  Stith,  m.  Robert  Newsom. 

2.  Martha  E.  Stith,  m.  General  J.  R.J.  Daniel.     Issue:  i.  William 

Augustus  Daniel;  2.  John  Napoleon  Daniel;  3.  General  Junius 
Daniel,  C.  S.  A.,  killed  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness. 

3.  Maria  B.  Stith,  m.  Judge  Joseph  J.  Daniel  (Supreme  Court,  N. 

C.)  Issue:  i.  William  A.  Daniel;  2.  Mary  Long  Daniel,  m. 
George  Loyall  Gordon;  3.  Lavina  Bassett  Daniel,  m.  Turner 
W.  Battle. 

4.  Mary  M.  Stith,  m.  Edmund  B.  Freeman. 

5.  Virginia  P.  Stith,  m.  Nathaniel  Macon  Eaton. 

6.  William  A.  Stith,  d.  s.  p. 

7.  Albert  A.  Stith,  d,  s.  p. 

8.  Nicholas  L.  B.  Stith. 

9.  Frances  W.  Stith,  m.  (2d  wife)  General  J.  R.  I.  Daniel,  d.  s.  p. 

II.  Elizabeth  Stith,  d.  unmarried  at  Halifax,  N.  C. 

III.  John  Stith,  moved  to  Georgia. 

The  Charles  City  records  show  that  Anderson  Stith  was  a  practicing 
lawyer  in  that  county  in  1755.  In  1774,  Joanna  Stith  was  his  widow. 
Judge  Bassett  French,  in  a  letter  to  the  widow  of  General  J.  R.  J.  Dan- 
iel, says  that  Anderson  Stith,  attorney  at  law,  died  in  King  William 
county,  Va.,  in  1768.  His  executrix,  Joanna  Stith,  advertised  for  sale 
his  late  dwelling  place  on  the  Pamunkey,  in  the  Virginia  Gazette,  March 
3,  1768. 

The  date  of  the  marriage  of  Colonel  Bassett  Stith  and  Mary  Long  is 
taken  from  the  family  Bible  ot  Colonel  Nicholas  Long,  in  the  possession 
of  one  of  his  descendants. 

Armistead  C.  Gordon,  Staunton,  Va. 

[to  be  continted.] 

THE  POVTHRESS  FAMILY. 
(Addenda  to  Vol.  VII,  71-72.  190.1 

(COMMl'NICATED.  ) 

Descendants  of  Mary  Poythress  and  John  Batte  (who  died  at  the 
White  Sulphur  Springs  in  1816.  and  was  buried  in  close  proximity  to  the 


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old  church  at  Lewisburg,  Va.,  there  being  no  means  of  communication 
with  Tidewater  Virginia  except  by  stage). 

Mary  Poythress,  wife  of  John  Batte,  of  Mancelle,  Prince  George 
county,  Va.,  descends  from  Robert,  grandson  of  Captain  Francis  Poy- 
thress, who  came  to  Virginia  in  1633.  Robert  Poythress  had  one  son 
and  nine  daughters.  His  oldest  son,  Peter  Poythress,  married  Elizabeth 
Bland,  daughter  of  Richard  Bland,  of  Jordans,  and  had  eight  daughters 
and  one  son.  (Notice  the  father  of  Peter  Poythress,  of  Branchester, 
had  nine  daughters  and  one  son,  and  Peter  Poythress,  of  Branchester, 
had  eight  daughters  and  one  son;  hence  the  family  connection  which  has 
spread  all  over  Virginia,  and  so  often  spoken  of  as  the  descendants  of 
the  *•  nine  Miss  Poythre.ss\**  or  the  *' eight  Miss  Poythress','*  the  nine 
being  sisters  of  Peter,  of  Branchester,  and  the  eight  his  daughters.)  The 
nine,  as  well  as  remembered  by  older  members  of  the  Poythres.s-Batte 
connection,  married  Goode,  of  Whitby;  Gilliam,  Eppes,  Rubsiman, 
Morrison.  Lee,  Cocke,  Baird  and  Harrison.  The  sisters  of  Peter  Poy- 
thress were  Agnes,  who  married  Roger  Atkinson,  of  Olive  Hill;  Eliza- 
beth Poythress  married  William  Mayo,  of  Powhatan  county,  Va.;  Sallie 
Bland  Poythress,  sixteen  years  old,  married  Richard  Lee,  son  of  Gen- 
eral R.  E.  Lee's  grandfather,  Henry  Lee,  sixty  years  old;  she  outlived 
him,  of  course,  and  married,  a  second  time,  Willoughby  Newton,  grand- 
father of  Bishop  John  B.  Newton,  of  Virginia;  Ann  Poythress  married 
Robert  Randolph;  Lucy  Poythress  married  John  I^ppes,  of  Eppesville, 
Prince  George  county,  Va.;  Jane  Poythress  married  Joseph  Mayo; 
Mary  Poythress  married  John  Batte,  of  Mancelle;  Susan  Poythress  mar- 
ried Richard  Bland,  of  Jordan,  her  cousin,  who  was  son  of  Richard 
Bland  and  Anne  Poythress,  of  Jordan,  and  was  the  mother  of  Dr. 
Theodrick  Bland,  the  last  Bland  owner  of  Jordans,  and  of  Mr.  John 
Bland,  of  Fountains,  and  of  Mr.  Richard  Bland.  Mary  Poythress  and 
John  Batte,  of  Mancelle,  had  issue:  Elizabeth,  married  Mr.  Madden; 
Nancy,  married  Mr.  Russell;  Martha,  married  Mr.  Robert  Ritchie; 
Mary,  married  Mr.  Samuel  Hinton,  of  Petersburg.  Peter  Poythress 
married  three  times — first,  Miss  Elizabeth  Poindexter;  and  second,  Miss 
Park  Poindexter;  and  third.  Miss  Emily  Broughton,  of  Norfolk,  Va. 
Robert  married  Miss  Efiza  Gilliam,  and  John  Henr>' married  Martha 
Ann,  daughter  of  Peyton  Mason,  of  Prince  George  county,  Va.  Henr>' 
Batte  and  Martha  Ann  Mason  had  thirteen  children:  Almeria  Elizabeth, 
who  married  John  Batte— no  issue;  Mary  Virginia,  married  John  Eppes, 
of  Eppesville— two  children;  Peyton  Mason,  who  died  in  infancy;  Indiana 
Henrietta,  died  young;  Martha  Turner,  married  Richard  Christian— no 
issue;  John  Henry,  died  in  infancy;  Alexander  Maben,  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty;  William  Ritchie,  died  young;  George  McPhail,  married 
Lucie  Cooke,  daughter  of  Mordecai  Cooke,  of  Norfolk,  Va.— two  chil- 
dren; Robert  Boiling,  married  Helen  French,  daughter  of  Judge  French, 
of  Manchester,  Va.— six  children;  Rosa  Bland,  married  Robert  R.  Hill, 


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of  Petersburg,  Va.— two  children;  Peter  Poythress,  now  residing  in 
Richmond,  Va.;  William  Mason,  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  Mary  Virginia  Batte  and  John  Eppes,  of  Eppesville:  Virginia 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Colonel  Joseph  P.  Minetree,  41st  Virginia  Regi- 
ment, C.  S.  A.  (eleven  children);  Virginia  Batte,  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  of  George  McPhail  and  Lucy  Cooke  Batte:  Charles  Cooke,  died 
in  infancy;  George  McPhail  Batte. 

(TO   BE   CONTINUED.  ) 


A  FORGOTTEN  MEMBER  OF  THE  BALL  FAMILY. 

It  is  well  known  to  all  students  of  our  colonial  history  that,  in  the 
colonization  of  Maryland,  Virginia  was  no  unimportant  factor,  and  that 
the  former  commonwealth  derived  considerable  accessions  to  her  early 
population  from  her  elder  sister.  While  the  movement  resulting  in  the 
Puritan  settlement  on  the  banks  of  the  Severn  forms  an  episode  of  more 
special  prominence,  there  was  from  the  first  a  steady  stream  of  indivi- 
dual immigration,  affecting  chiefly  the  districts  along  the  Potomac  and 
the  lower  portion  of  the  eastern  shore,  though  not  altogether  confined 
to  these  localities.  It  often  happens,  therefore,  that  the  genealogist  who 
loses  his  guiding  clue  in  Virginia,  will  find  it  again  in  the  Maryland 
records.  The  history  of  the  Ball  family  furnishes  a  case  in  point,  and 
incidentally  throws  some  light  on  the  early  relations  between  the  two 
colonies. 

The  records  of  the  Land  Office  at  Annapolis  (Liber.  4,  fol.  54)  show 
that,  on  the  i6th  of  July,  1659,  warrants  were  granted  to  the  ten  i>ersons 
named  below,  "conditionally  that  they  enter  their  rights  and  seat  their 
lands  between  this  and  25  March  next.**  Their  names  and  the  amounts 
of  land  claimed  by  each  were  as  follows:  Thomas  Powell,  700  acres; 
Walter  Dickinson,  600  acres;  Robert  Gorsuch,  300  acres;  Richard  Gor- 
such,  300  acres;  Howell  Powell,  300  acres;  William  Ball,  500  acres; 
William  Chapman,  Jr.,  500  acres;  Richard  Ball,  500  acres;  Thomas 
Humphrey,  600  acres;  Hugh  Kinsey,  400  acres. 

It  is  susceptible  of  proof  that  this  little  colony  came  from  Lancaster 
county,  Va.,  and  it  should  be  noted,  by  the  way,  that  '*  William  Chap- 
man, Jr.,  is  an  evident  error  for  **  William  Claphani,  Jr.'*  The  names 
of  William  and  Richard  Ball  will  at  once  claim  attention,  since  the 
former,  as  will  presently  be  shown,  was  probably  the  son  of  Colonel 
William  Ball,  and  the  latter  none  other  than  his  son  Richard,  who  has 
generally  been  supposed  to  have  died  young.  Richard  Ball  settled  in 
Baltimore  county  in  the  course  of  the  following  year,  and  August  i,  1660, 
assigned  certain  rights  to  Paul  Kinsey  (Land  Office,  Lib.  5,  fol.  91). 
His  warrant  for  500  acres  was  renewed  May  15,  1661,  returnable  in  De- 
cember following  ( Ibid.,  Lib.  4,  fol.  554).  The  next  year  he  was  married. 
Under  date  of  March  i,  i66>^,  Mary  Humphreys,  **now  in  widowhood,** 


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gives  300  acres  and  a  man  servant  to  her  daughter,  Mary  Humphreys,  to 
be  delivered  to  her  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  or  day  of  marriage 
(Bait.  Co.,  R.  M.,  No.  H  S,  7).  The  deed  is  recorded  by  *•  Mr.  Richard 
Ball,  husband  of  Mary  Humphreys."  Mrs.  Mary  Ball  was  living  Jan- 
uary 3,  166^,  when  she  joins  in  a  deed  with  her  husband  (Balto.  Co.,  I.  R., 
No.  P  P,  63),  but  died  before  him.  Richard  Ball  was  commissioned  a 
justice  of  Baltimore  county,  July  4,  1665,  May  19,  1672,  June  5,  1674,  and 
March  2,  1675-6  ( Md.  Arch.,  Ill,  529;  XV,  38.  68,  71 ;  Lib.,  C  D,  64).  He 
died  in  1677,  leaving  an  only  child,  Hannah  Ball. 

Christopher  Johnston, 
709  5/.  Paul  SI.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

(TO    BE   CONTINUED.) 


Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  and  Queries. 


GouDY — Wanted  information  in  regard  to  Adam  Goudyloch,  who  pat- 
ented lands  in  Albemarle  county  in  the  years  1756  and  *6o.  He  married 
Anna  Stockton  and  moved  to  Union  county,  South  Carolina.  Their 
daughter  Ann,  married  William  Safford,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution, 
and  lived  in  Georgia.  Adam  Goudyloch  Safford,  son  of  William,  mar- 
ried Ann,  daughter  of  Margaret  Watson  and  Oliver  Porter. 


Porter — Wanted  information  in  regard  to  John  Porter  and  Mary  An- 
thony, his  wife,  of  Prince  Edward  county,  Va.  His  will  is  on  record  in 
that  county,  in  which  he  mentions  wife  Ann  (second  wife  Mrs.  Ann  Car- 
sons),  and  sons  William,  Francis  and  Oliver;  William  was  killed  in  the 
Revolutionary  war;  Oliver  was  at  the  battle  of  Yorktown,  a  young  boy 
of  seventeen  or  eighteen.  Oliver  married  Margaret  Watson,  and  they 
moved  to  Georgia  after  the  Revolutionary'  war.  Margaret  was  the 
daughter  of  Margaret  Parks  and  Douglas  Watson. 


losEPH  Payne — Vines  Family — 1st.  Would  like  to  know  maiden 
name  of  the  wife  of  Lieutenant  Joseph  Payne.  He  served  three  years 
in  the  Revolutionary  war.  2d.  I  desire  information  in  regard  to  ances- 
tors of  Joseph  or  Josias  Payne,  who  lived  in  Rockingham  county,  North 
Carolina  in  1788  to  1794,  and  who  was  of  the  old  Virginia  Paynes.  His 
children  were  Anna,  Susanna,  George,  Martha,  and  Joseph.  His  wife 
was  Hannah  Willson  (or  Wilson).  3d.  How  was  Thomas  Jefferson  re- 
lated to  the  Vines,  and  how  were  the  Vines  and  Randolphs  connected  ? 
The  Vines  were  of  English  origin.  E.  D.  T. 


Parker— Wanted,  the  ancestry  of  Elizabeth   Parker,  of  Accomac 


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county,  who  about  1789-90  married  John  Knowlton,  of  Newburyport, 
Mass.,  where  she  died  August  i,  1808,  aged  thirty-seven. 

F.  E.  B.,  Madison,  Wis, 


LuMBERD— Wanted  record  of  William  Sturgis  Lumberd  in  Revolu- 
tionary and  War  of  1 81 2.  Deceased  served  in  Captain  James  Davis' 
Company,  Boston,  from  July  i,  1775,  to  December  31,  1776,  at  sea  coast 
defence  (mariner).  Later  removed  to  Virginia,  married  Patience  Dun- 
ton,  of  Drummondtown,  Va. 

(Miss)  M.  M.  Watson, 
Camden,  N.J, 

Harrison— Can  any  one  give  information  as  to  the  connection,  if 
any,  between  the  Valley  and  James  river  Harrisons,  and  of  the  Cravens 
and  Carthae  (or  Carthey)  families  of  the  Valley,  Virginia.  The  infor- 
mation will  be  greatly  appreciated  by  Mr.  Rogers  M.  Smith,  of  Worth- 
ington  P.  O..  Ky. 

Kemp — Did  John  Porter  and  his  wife,  Margaret  Willoughby  Porter, 
have  a  son  Thomas,  or  William,  who  married  Mary  Kemp  ?  Was  Mary 
Kemp  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Kemp  (son  of  Mathew  Kemp)  and  Mary 
Curtis  ?  Who  was  Mary  Curtis  ?  Any  information  will  be  appreciated 
by  John  Lewis  Ro Bards,  Hamilton,  .Mo. 


THE  PAPER  MILL.    Inscrib'd  to  Mr.  Parks.* 
Innova^fert  Ant  mis,  muiaUs  dicere/omuxs.  Corpora. — Ovid. 
(From  the  Virg^inia  Gazette,  July  26,  1744) 
Tho'  sage  Philosophers  have  said, 

0/ nothing,  can  be  nothing  made: 
Yet  much  thy  Mill,  O  Parks,  brings  forth 
From  what  we  reckon  nothing  worth. 
Hail  kind  Machine!— Th^  Muse  shall  praise 
Thy  Labours,  that  receive  her  Lays. 
Soon  as  the  Learn' d  denounce  the  War 
From  pratling  Box,  or  wrangling  Bar, 
Straight,  Pen  and  Paper  range  the  Fight; 
They  meet,  they  close,  in  Black  &  White. 
The  Substances  of  what  we  think, 
Tho'  born  in  Thought,  must  live  in  Ink. 
Whilst  willing  Mem'ry  lends  her  Aid, 
She  finds  herself  by  Time  betray'd. 
Nor  can  thy  Name,  Dear  Molly,  live 


♦  We  are  indebted  lo  Mr.  Worthington  C.  Ford  for  this  early  Virginia  verse.  For  a 
notice  of  Wm.  Parks,  the  hrst  publisher  of  the  Virginia  Gazfitr,  see  tVifliam  and  Mary 
Quarterly,   V 1 1 ,  9-1 7  • 


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Without  those  Helps  the  Mill  must  give; 
The  Sheet  now  hastens  to  declare, 
How  lovely  Thou,  and my  Despair. 

Unwitting  Youths,  whose  Eyes  or  Breast, 
Involve  in  Sighs,  and  spoil  of  Rest; 
Unskill'd  to  say  their  piteous  Case, 
But  miss  the  Girl  for  want  of  Brass, 
May  paint  their  Anguish  on  the  Sheet; 
For  Paper  cannot  blush,  I  weet. 
And  Phillis  (for  Bissextile  Year 
Does  only  once  in  Four  appear. 
When  Maids,  in  dread  to  lie  alone 
Have  Leave  to  bid  the  men  come  on), 
Each  Day  may  write  to  lure  the  Youth 
She  longs  to  wed,  or  fool,  or— both. 

Ye  Brave,  whose  Deeds  shall  vie  with  Time, 
Whilst  Mill  can  turn,  or  Poet  rhime. 
Your  Tatters  hoard  for  future  Quires; 
So  Need  demands,  so  Parks  desires. 
(And  long  that  gen'rous  Patriot  live 
Who  for  soft  Rags,  hard  Cash  will  give!) 
'  The  Shirt,  Cravat,  the  Cap,  again 
Shall  meet  your  Hands,  with  Mails  from  Spain; 
The  Surplice,  which,  when  whole  or  new, 
With  Pride  the  Sexton's  Wife  could  view, 
Tho'  worn  by  Time  and  gone  to  rack. 
It  quits  its  Rev'rend  Master's  Back; 
The  same  again  the  Priest  may  see 
Bound  up  in  Sacred  Liturgy. 

Ye  Fair,  renown'd  in  Cupid's  Field, 
Who  fain  would  tell  what  Hearts  you've  killed; 
Each  Shift  decay'd,  lay  by  with  Care; 
Or  Apron  rubb'd  to  bits  at — Pray'r, 
One  Shift  ten  Sonnets  may  contain. 
To  gild  your  Charms,  and  make  you  vain; 
One  Cap,  a  Billet-doux  may  shape, 
As  full  of  Whim,  as  when  a  Cap, 
And  modest  'Kerchiefs  Sacred  held 
May  sing  the  Breasts  they  once  conceaVd, 

Nice  Delia's  Smock,  which,  neat  and  whole, 
No  Man  durst  finger  for  his  Soul; 
Tum'd  to  Gazette,  now  all  the  Town, 
May  take  it  up,  or  smooth  it  down. 
Whilst  Delia  may  with  it  dispence. 
And  no  Affront  to  Innocence. 


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The  Bards,  besure,  their  Aids  will  lend; 
The  Printer  is  the  Poet's  Friend; 
Both  cram  the  News,  and  stuff  the  Mills, 
For  Bards  have  Rags,  and — little  else. 
Your  humble  Servant, 

y.  Dutnbleton, 

Lynch  Law  in  Albemarle  County,  1748. 

Order  Book,  Albemarle,  Co.,  June  p,  1748. 

"Joel  Walker's  Deposition."— "Joel  Walker,  the  Younger  Son  of 
Joel  Wdker,  was  this  day  sworn  and  Examined  in  Court  in  Relation  to 
the  Death  of  William  Walker,  his  Brother,  who  Deposed  he  saw  Roger, 
a  Slave  belonging  to  his  Father,  strike  the  said  William  Walker  several 
Blows  on  the  Head  with  a  Grubing  Hoe,  which  Blows  he  believes  to  be 
the  Occasion  of  his  Death;  that  the  Negro  there  upon  ran  away  from  his 
Father's,  and  that  he  some  time  afterwards  saw  the  said  Negro  Roger 
Hanging  and  Dead;  and  further  this  Deponent  saith  not,  &c.  Ordered 
this  Deposition  be  Certifyed  to  the  Gener.  Assembly." 

[Runaway  negroes  not  infrequently  committed  suicide.  This  may 
have  been  such  a  case.— Ed.] 

Letter  from  Gov.  Francis  Fauquier  to  Hon.  William  Bvrd. 

(Original  owned  by  Joseph  Lyon  Miller.) 

Wms'burg,  Deer.  loth,  1760. 
Sr. 

I  have  rec'd  your  Commission  and  Letter  of  Resignation  by  the 
Hands  of  Mr.  Rutherford,  and  as  I  have  not  yet  had  an  opportunity  of 
communicating  it  to  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Council,  I  can  say  nothing 
more  to  it  than  that  I  am  sorry  you  have  so  understood  matters  as  to 
give  you  cause  to  think  you  have  Reason  to  take  this  hasty  and  ill-con- 
sidered step.  When  I  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  you  at  Winchester,  if 
you  reccollect,  Sr.,  the  first  opening  of  intimacy  and  confidence  between 
us  was  my  advising  you  against  another  Resignation,  w'ch  I  thought  as 
inconsiderate  I  then  had  Success  in  my  Counsels,  and  tho'  my  corres- 
pondence by  Letters  has  not  been  attended  w'th  the  same  good  Fortune 
as  my  Conversation  then  was  ( w'ch  I  have  always  attributed  to  your 
mind's  being  poisoned  by  the  advice  of  young  and  hasty  counsellors  in 
my  absence),  yet  I  can  with  confidence  say  all  my  advice,  whether  of  a 
public  or  a  private  nature,  was  sincerely  meant  to  do  you  Honor  and 
Service;  and  I  have  the  Satisfaction  to  think  that  when  more  years  have 
roll'd  over  your  Head,  and  the  Influence  of  Passions  of  all  Kinds  sub- 
side and  give  way  to  the  Dictates  of  cool  Reflection,  you  will  see  and 
acknowledge,  that  tho'  a  new  acquaintance,  I  have  acted  the  part  of  an 
old  Friend.  Your  Letter  from  Bryant's  Camp  in  answer  to  mine  of  the 
13  &  14  Nov.  by  Mr.  Allen  is  not  yet  come  to  hand. 


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I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  in  the  late  melancholy  Occasion 
of  the  Commissary's  Death,  Mr.  John  page  is  nominated  for  councillor 
without  your  Resignation  to  make  Room  for  him.  His  own  Merit  and 
your  Desire  were  sufficient  Motives  to  me. 

In  your  last  paragraph  you  seem  to  take  a  final  Leave  of  all  Corres- 
pondence. Perhaps  you  did  not  mean  it  so;  whether  you  did  or  not,  I 
with  great  Sincerity  of  Heart  wish  you  well  and  happy  wherever  you 
are,  and  am,  Sr., 

Your  very  hum.  Servt., 

Fran:  Fauquier. 

To  the  Hon'ble  Wm.  Byrd. 


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The  South  Carolina  Historical  and  Genealogical  Magazine. 
Published  quarterly,  by  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society, 
Charleston,  S.  C.     Vol.  I— No.  i.    January,  1900,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

We  heartily  welcome  the  first  number  of  the  quarterly  magazine  to  be 
published  by  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society,  and  wish  it  a  long 
and  prosperous  career.  It  is  pleasant  to  note  that  the  renewed  activity 
shown  in  the  publication  of  this  magazine,  has  been  cordialiy  responded 
to,  and  that  from  sixty-three  members  in  October,  the  Society  has  in- 
creased to  over  two  hundred  in  the  middle  of  December,  1 899,  with  a 
fine  prospect  of  reaching  five  hundred  by  the  beginning  of  1901.  There 
is  in  South  Carolina  great  wealth  of  historic,  antiquarian  and  genealog- 
ical material,  which  a  magazine  will  bring  to  light. 

This  initial  number,  edited  by  Mr.  A.  S.  Salley,  Jr.,  the  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Society,  contains  an  attractive  table  of  contents,  not 
only  to  South  Carolinians,  but  to  students  of  history  elsewhere. 

The  first  paper  is  a  long  and  interesting  letter  from  Thomas  Jefierson 
(dated  June  12,  1823),  to  Judge  William  Johnson,  of  Charleston,  review- 
ing the  history  and  policy  of  the  Federal  party,  and  criticising  Judge 
Marshall.  The  next  contains  a  number  of  letters  which  throw  new  light 
on  the  mission  of  Colonel  John  Laurens  to  Europe  in  1781.  The  third 
paper  gives  the  records  and  correspondence  of  the  first  Council  of  Safety 
of  South  Carolina,  June-November,  1775.  The  genealogical  depart- 
ment contains  an  account  of  the  well  known  Bull  family  of  that  State. 
The  *'  Notes  and  Queries,"  among  other  matters  of  interest,  reprints, 
for  permanent  preservation,  a  contribution  from  Mr.  Yates  Snowden,  of 
Charleston,  which  demolishes  another  cherished  popular  belief,  1.  ^.,  that 
General  C.  C.  Pinckney  said  **  Millions  for  defense,  but  not  a  cent  for 
tribute."  It  seems  the  latter  portion  of  the  sentence  was  his;  the  first 
was  due  to  Robert  Goodloe  Harper. 


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We  again  congratulate  the  South  Carolina  Historical  Society  on  its 
new  venture. 

Early  Settlers  of  Alabama.  By  Col.  James  Edmonds  Saunders. 
Lawrence  county,  Ala.  With  Notes  and  Genealogies  by  His  Grand- 
daughter, Elizabeth  Saunders  Blair  Stubbs,  New  Orleans,  La.  New 
Orleans,  1899.     Pp.  530,  XXIV  (Index). 

Though  the  title  page  of  this  large  and  interesting  book  States  that  it 
treats  of  the  early  settlers  of  Alabama,  it  really,  as  is  shown  some  pages 
further  on,  relates  to  the  northern  portion  of  the  State.  In  1880,  Colonel 
J.  E.  Saunders,  a  native  of  Virginia,  who  had  been  for  sixty  years  a 
resident  of  Lawrence  county,  Ala.,  commenced  in  a  local  newspaper  a 
series  of  graphic  and  carefully  prepared  articles  on  his  **  Recollections 
of  North  Alabama."  His  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Stubbs,  has  republished 
these,  with  much  additional  matter  which  he  had  not  used,  aqd  has 
added  a  second  part  containing  notes  and  genealogies,  more  or  less 
complete,  of  many  families  resident  in  that  section  of  country. 

Colonel  Saunders'  **  recollections,"  which  include  a  history  of  Law- 
rence county,  are  full  of  interest,  and  treat  of  such  subjects  as  the 
Cherokee  Indians,  style  of  dress  and  type  of  love  in  early  times,  bio- 
graphical sketches  of  merchants,  judges,  county  officers,  newspapers 
and  editors,  inn-keepers,  lawyers,  physicians,  ministers,  family  histories, 
Alabama  regiments  in  the  war  between  the  States,  &c.,  &c.  Through- 
out he  gives  much  personal  detail,  which  adds  to  the  interest  of  the 
book. 

Part  II,  by  Mrs.  Stubbs,  is  composed  of  genealogies  and  genealogical 
notes,  and  contains  a  vast  amount  of  information  in  regard  to  the  fami- 
lies of  Banks,  Bankhead,  Bibb,  Blair,  Cantzon,  Clay,  Coleman,  Cox, 
Du  Bose,  Dudley,  Dunn,  Elliott,  Flint,  Foster,  Fry,  Gholson,  Goode, 
Gray,  Harris,  Hill,  Hopkins,  Lanier,  Ligon,  Lowe,  Manning,  Maclin, 
McGehee,  Maury,  Oliver,  O'Neal,  Phelan,  Poellnitz,  Ray,  Richardson, 
Saunders,  Shelton,  Sherrod,  Shorter,  Speed,  Swoope,  Tait,  Taliaferro, 
Thompson,  Tillman,  Urquhart,  Walthall,  Watkins,  Webb,  Weeden,  Wells, 
White,  Withers,  Wyatt,  Yates,  Young,  and  many  others.  The  authoress 
appears  to  have  done  her  work  carefully  and  well.  She  has  been  a  close 
student  of  the  Virginia  county  and  land  records  (for  most  of  the  settlers 
of  north  Alabama  were  from  Virginia),  and  has  printed  a  mass  of  notes 
gathered  in  her  researches  in  those  records.  It  would  have  been  advis- 
able, however,  to  have  notified  her  readers  thdt  because  the  people 
named  in  the  extracts  from  the  records  bore  the  same  surname  as  the 
family  she  is  treating  of,  that  it  by  no  means  follows  that  there  was  any 
relation. 

Of  course,  in  such  a  large  amount  of  genealogical  matter  there  must 
be  some  errors;  but  Mrs.  Stubbs  has  been  unsparing  in  time  and  labor 
in  her  efforts  to  obtain  accuracy.     There  is  a  good  index. 


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History  of  the  German  Element  in  Virginia.  By  Herrmann 
Schuricht.  Vol.  II,  13th  and  14th  Annual  Reports  of  the  Society 
for  the  History  of  the  Germans  in  Maryiand.     [Baltimore],  1900. 

That  there  was  a  large  and  important  German  element  among  the  Co- 
lonial settlers  of  Virginia  has  been  long  known  to  all  students  of  our 
history,  though  our  historical  publications  give  but  little  information 
concerning  it,  and  some  of  that  little,  incorrectly.  But  this  has  not  been,  as 
some  have  inconsiderately  stated,  because  of  a  wilful  ignoring  of  the  Ger- 
mans by  our  historians  and  historical  societies,  but  simply  because  the 
required  information  was  extremely  difficult  to  obtain.  Settling  as  they 
did  in  a  remote  portion  of  the  Colony,  using  a  foreign  language,  forming 
at  most  but  a  small  proportion  of  the  population  of  the  Colony,  it  should 
not  excite  surprise  that  there  has  been  so  little  in  our  histories  in  regard 
to  the  German  element.  The  Germans  did  constitute  an  important  por- 
tion of  our  population,  and  their  history  is  one  which  interests  all  who 
care  fof  Virginia's  past;  but  it  seems  to  us  that  it  is  the  duty  of  those  who 
have  the  local  knowledge  and  opportunity  to  collect  material  for  such  a 
history,  to  give  it  to  the  public.  Historical  data  relating  to  the  Ger- 
mans of  Virginia,  will  always  find  a  welcome  to  the  pages  of  this  Mag- 
azine, 

When  the  late  Mr.  Schurichfs  first  volume  was  announced,  sincere 
pleasure  was  felt  in  the  belief  that  a  long  needed  contribution  to  Virginia 
history  would  be  made.  But  on  reading,  such  hopes  were  quickly 
blasted.  With  great  enthusiasm  for  his  subject,  and  much  knowledge 
of  many  of  its  phases,  the  author  displayed  so  little  judgment,  such 
great  ignorance  of  elementary  facts  of  the  history  of  Virginia  and  the 
Virginia  people,  and  made  so  many  utterly  unfounded  claims,  that  the 
book  is  practically  worthless.  It  is  true  that  there  is  much  of  interest 
and  value;  but  unless  one  is  well  acquainted  with  our  history  and  our 
people,  the  book  is  sure  to  mislead.  When  the  first  volume  appeared, 
it  was  examined  for  review;  but  as  it  appeared  that  such  a  review  as  the 
limits  of  this  Magazine  will  admit  would  have  to  be  simply  a  list  of 
errata,  the  intention  was  abandoned.  The  appearance  of  the  second 
volume,  however,  makes  it  necessary  that  a  warning  should  be  given. 
What  the  German  race  has  done  in  and  for  Virginia  needs  no  exaggera- 
tion, and  it  is  a  pity  that  the  lamented  author's  energy  and  enthusiasm 
shall  not  have  worked  to  better  results. 

To  Have  and  to  Hold.     By  Mary  Johnston^  author  of  **  Prisoners  of 
Hope."     Boston  and  New  York:  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1900 

In  her  second  work,  Miss  Johnston  has  given  to  the  world  the  most 
stirring  and  interesting  Virginia  historical  novel  ever  written,  and  one  of 
the  very  best  of  all  America.  With  a  fascinating  style  and  an  engross- 
ing plot,  she  has  preserved  (what  the  old  school  of  Virginia  historical 
novels  did  not  do  at  all)  a  close  adherence  to  the  actual  historic  and 
social  conditions  of  the  time.  There  are  chapters  in  her  book  which 
would  form  admirable  school  reading  for  classes  in  Virginia  history. 


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But  what  the  great  majority  of  modern  novel  readers  wish  is  a  story, 
and  here  they  will  find  one  where  the  interest  is  so  strongly  held  to  the 
end  that  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  one  has  ever  left  the  book  unfinished. 
A  few  critical  people  may  object  that  there  is  a  somewhat  redundant 
supply  of  sensational  incidents,  and  that  the  buccaneer  episode  is  out  of 
place  and  rather  disfigures  the  book;  but  notwithstanding  these  criti- 
cisms, they  are  bound  to  continue,  and  will  lay  *'To  Have  and  To  Hold  " 
down  at  the  end  with  the  feeling  that  the  authoress  is  wiser  than  the 
critic,  and  with  a  strong  desire  for  more  from  the  same  pen. 

This  book  has  been  so  generally  read  and  noticed  in  the  press  that  it 
is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  the  plot  is  laid  between  the  periods  of  the 
arrival  of  the  '*  maids  "  sent  to  be  wives  of  the  colonists  in  1619  a"d  the 
great  massacre  of  1622. 

Genealogy  of  the  Kemper  Family  in  the  United  States — De- 
scendants of  John  Kemper  of  Virginia.  With  a  Short  Hi^orical 
Sketch  of  his  Family  and  of  the  German  Reformed  Colony  at  Ger- 
manna  and  Germantown.  Va.  Compiled  and  Edited  by  Willis 
Miller  Kemper  and  Harry  Linn  Wright.  Chicago,  Geo.  K.  Hazlett 
&  Co.,  Printers,  373  Dearborn  St.,  1899.     Pp.  248,  xix. 

This,  as  the  authors  state,  is  a  genealogy,  and  not  a  family  history,  01 
one  of  the  most  distinguished  of  the  German  families  of  Virginia.  The 
genealogy  is  evidently  prepared  with  great  care,  and  seems  to  be  full 
and  accurate;  but  the  portion  of  the  book  of  most  interest  and  value  to 
persons  outside  of  the  large  family  connection  is  the  sketch  of  the  Ger- 
manna  colony.  Though  this  only  treats  of  one  section  of  the  German  emi- 
gration, it  is  everything  that  the  work  on  the  Germans  noticed  above  is 
not,  and  is  entitled  to  unqualified  praise.  The  historical  portion  of  the 
work  is  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  W.  M.  Kemper,  of  Cincinnati,  who  has  made 
admirable  use  of  original  sources  of  information.  He  shows  that  the 
settlers  at  Germanna  were  not  the  Swiss  or  Palatines  of  De  Graffenreid*s 
North  Carolina  colony,  but  were  skilled  iron  workers  from  Nassau- 
Siegen,  who  were  engaged  to  come  over  to  work  Governor  Spotswood's 
iron  mines  and  furnaces.  At  this  place,  in  the  northeastern  comer  of 
what  is  now  Orange  county,  **  was  the  first  German  settlement  in  Vir- 
ginia; the  first  county  town  [seat]  of  Spotsylvania  county;  where  St. 
George's  parish  was  organized;  where  the  first  iron  furnace  in  America 
was  built,  and  the  first  pig  iron  made,  as  Spotswood  claims;  the  place 
from  which  the  famous  expedition  of  '  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Horse- 
shoe *  started;  where  the  first  German  Reformed  Congregation  in  the 
U.  S.  was  organized,  its  first  pastor  settled,  and  its  first  services  held" 
(p.  18).  About  1720,  most  of  the  original  settlers  at  Germanna  removed 
to  Germantown,  in  what  is  now  Fauquier  county.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
Mr.  Kemper  will  further  contribute  to  the  history  of  the  German  element 
in  Virginia. 


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Abbott,  80,  272. 

Abage,  190. 

Abednego,  403. 

Abingdon,  95,  119,  295,  400. 

Abingdon  Parish,  ko. 

Abney,  422.  ^ 

Abrogast,  25. 

Accomac,  194,  440. 

Adams,  46,  50,  227,  311,  312,  418. 

Aedy,  40, 

Aglionby,  91,  92. 

Agnew,  312. 

Alabama,  77,  398,  446. 

Alabama,  Early   Settlers  of, 

review,  446. 
Alabama,  North,  Virginia  Settlers 

in,  446. 
Albemarle  County,  Va.,  25,  26,  27, 

29,  83,  84,  203,  249,  252,  329. 

341.  345.  400. 
Albemarle  County,  Lynch  Law 

In  1748.  444. 
Albert,  431,  436. 
Albion,  426. 
Alcutt,  192. 
Aldey,  193, 
Aldndge,  298. 
Aid  rich,  203. 
Alexander,  23,  34,  36,  91,  181,  183, 

2Q2,   299,   300,  412,   421,    422, 

427. 
Alhallows,  73. 
All,  25. 
Allan,  78. 
Allardes,  310. 

Allen,  95,  210,  212.  320,  423. 
Allen,    Mrs.    Elizabeth,    Epitaph, 

211. 
Allison,  326. 
Alson,  190. 
Altera,  195. 

Alsamonsock  Swamp,  312. 
Alverman,  25. 
Ambler,  227,411,  416,  418. 
Ambrose,  169.  -* 

Amelia  County,  Va.,  76,  77,  78,  96, 

208,  253,  320,  323,  429,  430. 


Amherst  County,  Va.,  25,  26,  28, 

29. 203.  ^ 

Amison,  195. 
Amsterdam,  4:^3. 
Ancestry  of  Benjamin  Harrison^ 

437. 

Auchmleck,  311. 

Anderson,  3,  12,  31,  38,  105,  203, 
208,  311,  422,  430,  432,  438. 

Andre,  308. 

Andrews,  266. 

Andros,  166,  167,  154,  et  seq,  394. 

Annapolis,  50,  440. 
;  Appomattox,  70,  191,  339,  424. 
I  Arbigland,  293. 

Arbuckle,  25,  422. 
i  Archer,  97,  105.  . 

Archers  Hope,  365. 
j  Archers  Hope  Creek,  195. 
,  Argus,  407. 

Arra«-at  River,  6. 
'  Argall.  40,  51,  138,  270,  etseq. 

Argenbright,  25. 
'  Armistead,  22,  52,  397,  437. 

Arms,  Coat  of,  91,  211,  285,  364. 

Armstrong,  34. 

Arnold,  194,  305. 

Ashall,  361. 

Ashby,  89,  90. 

Ashton,  202,  435. 

Assembly  of  Virginia,  369,  371, 381. 

Assamoosock  Swamp,  351. 

Atamonsock  Swamp,  343. 

Atchison,  324. 

Athawes,   181. 

Attaway,  191. 

Atkinson,  31,  34,  38,  77,  190,  439. 

Attorney's  Bill  and  Fee,  1728. 
210. 

Auburn,  426. 

Angola  Man,  265. 

Augusta  County,  Va.,  24,  25,  26, 
27,  28,  29,  106,  107,  127,  2l6, 
421. 

Augusta  Parish,  no. 

Austin,  190. 

Avery,  124. 


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fj^.jr,     ;i4.   yA    -t*^ 

fiiXirr.  yi,  69,  206.  2:3.  ^14,  401- 
fai-.    52   ^  147-  SC'S-  30^.  3r-   440. 

fel^mor*:,  416,  4^. 

Bfi»>;nrK^c,  I»rd,  in  Virginia  in  1629, 

Bannist^.  7S. 

Ha^k^,  446, 

Bank  <^W  0-4umbia,  Value  of  stock 

r/.  1797,  liS4,  185- 
Bank.    Farmers,    Richmond.   Va., 

^/>,  et  teq 
Bank  f/  V  irgmia,  406,  et  i€q. 
Bank  head,  446, 
Baptist  Church,  4< 
Bar^>er,  52,  56,  60,  61,  191,  4U- 
BarkKrtjr,  25, 
Barclay,  311. 
Bardstown,  Ky.,  15. 
Bargrave,  132. 
Barley,  306, 
BaiUin,  25,  311. 
Baisley,  y^5. 

Barker.  113-118,  148,  191,3"- 
Bamett,  25,  82,  I47- 
Bams,  61. 

Barking  Parish,  London,  353. 
Barradall,  318. 
Barren  county,  Ky.,  86. 
Barren  river,  12. 
Barret,  81. 

Barrett,  99,  i<xj,  147,  301. 
H.irrigton,  261. 
Baron,  311. 
Barron,  147. 
B.irrolt,  146. 
Harrow,  61. 
liartrc,  148. 
li.irton,  102, 
Haskcrville,  430. 
IViskins,  25. 


5-ia&es  '-^^-^'rt,  j66. 
s-isse^  2:2   45-  €i  z^4^ 
Bassett-Stith  F amujis.  437.  r/ 

tUsaetr.  W.,  Efcaj;c  oC  1723.  399. 

EatsELis,  ♦:,  146.  19c  193- 

Bales,  147' 

E^ath  c-.^-ntT.  Va.,  .«> 

Bat:a:>  4^5.  4^- 

Bane,  37,  i->  190.  ^39,  43S.  ^ x^. 

Bart:«,  43i 

Ba:>^,  19CL 

BA-izh,  los,  424- 

Bao^  Family.  423.  424. 

Bau^han,  431- 

BayloT.  yjfi. 

Ba\ivc's  Creek,  71. 

Bayiy  s  land,  69. 

Ba>-ne,  193. 

Ba>top.  25. 

Baiter.  291. 

Beadles,  25. 

Beale.  52,  60.  61,  63,  147. 

Beard,  4^1. 

Beck«-ith,  56,  60,  225. 

Beard,  4^2. 

Bears  Ellament,  209. 

Bedford,  9,  14,  16,  239.  4»,  425. 

Bedfordshire,  196. 

Bedford  county,  Va.,  208- 

Bedwell,  50. 

Belair,  319,  426. 

Bell,  13,  25,  68,  147,  305,  421. 

Bellfield,  401. 

Bell  Tower,  Capitol  Square,  Rich- 
mond, 226. 

Belvoir,  400. 

Belmont,  426. 

Benger,  52. 

Benn,  195. 

Benn's  Quarter,  208. 

Bennett,  377. 

Benson,  148. 

Bentley,  104,  430. 

Berkeley,  27,  28,  314,  32?.  348,  395. 

Berkeley  county.  VV.  Va.,  14. 

Berkeley,  Sir  Wm.,  How  made 
Governor  in  1660  ?  314. 

Berkeley,  Sir  VVm.,  Governor  of 
Virginia  before  elected  by  the 
Assembly  in  1660,  315. 

Bernard,   103. 


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451 


Beknard-R  e  a  d  e-Throckmor- 
TON  Chart  Corrections, 
103. 

Berry,  192. 

Berryman,  200,  318,  425. 

Best,  23. 

Bethun.  311. 

Betts,  148. 

Bevell,  105. 

Beverley,  17,  285,  302,  330,  427. 

Bibb,  34,  301,  323»  43h  446. 

Bickley,  301. 

Biggs,  46,  50. 

Bigelow,  412. 

Big  Salt  Lick,  15. 

Big  Bullet,  3,  4.  403. 

Biflbrough,  192. 

Billups,  147. 

Bing,  50. 

Birbeck,  428. 

Birch,  83. 

Birchet,  105. 

Birkerdike,  143. 

Biscoe,  147. 

Black,  302,  311. 

Blackamore  fort,  251. 

Blackburn,  76. 

Black  cattle,  295. 

Blackwater,  157,  339,  349. 

Blackwell,  88,  202,  306. 

Blackwood,  422. 

Blagrove,  138.  413. 

Blair.  13,  i53-'72,  275-286,  311, 
393.  397,  446. 

Blair,  Rev.  James,  D.  D.,  notices 
of,  154,  155.  282. 

Blair,  Dr.  James,  letter  to  Nichol- 
son, 1695,  275. 

Blaire,  78,  391,  392. 

Blaithwait,  396. 

Bland,  25,  72,  77,  102,  105,  190,  191, 
308,  426,  430,  439. 

Blaney,  46,  49,  260,  365. 

Blankenship,  430. 

Bledsoe's,  2,  11,12,  123,  126,  147, 
149. 

Blenheim,  102. 

Blick,  105. 

Block  house,  12. 

Blough  Point  Quarter,  66. 

Blount  College,  216. 

Blue  Licks,  15,  253. 

Blunt.  356. 

Blunt  Point,  286. 

Boden,  306. 

Boddicoutt,  191. 

Boggs,  148. 


t  Bohanon,  25. 

j  Bollar,  25. 

;  Boiling,  77,  79,  105,  148,  190,  340, 

I         341. 

1  Boiling  family,  352-354. 

Boiling,  Robt.,  epitaph  of,  353. 
I  Bona  Nova  ship,  192. 

Bond,  40. 
'  Bon  Homme  Richard,  289. 
;  Bonner,  343. 

I  Books    in   Colonial   Virginia, 
!         299,  el  seq. 
Books,  65,  66,   109,  no.  III,  194, 
203,  200,  301,  303,  318,  359. 
I  Book  Reviews,  The  Vestry  Book 
and  Register  of  Bristol  Parish, 
I         Va.,  105;  Word- Book  of  Vir- 
ginia Folk-Speech,  218;   The 
Growth  of  the  Constitution  in 
the  Federal  Convention.    By 
W.   J.    Meigs.      Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  1900.     Review  by  S.  S.  P. 
Patteson,  333;  South  Carolina 
Historical   and    Genealogical 
Magazine,  445;  Early  Settlers  in 
Alabama,  446;  History  of  the 
German  Element  in  Virginia, 
447;  To  Have  and  to  Hold, 
447;  Genealogy  of  the  Kemper 
Family,  448. 
Booker,  147.  148,  429. 
Booker  Family,  94,  et  seq,  208,  ei 

seq,  322,  ei  seq,  429,  et  seq. 
Booker  marriage  bonds  in  Amelia 

county,  430-431- 
Boone,  1,5,  6,  11,  16,  118,  119,  126, 

149,  245,  402. 
Booth,  61,  75,  426,  437. 
Borden's  Land,  214. 
Bordman,  298. 
Boroughs,  321. 
Boscobel,  426. 
Bose,  147. 
Bosseau,  105. 
Boston,  169,  183. 
Boswell,  13. 
Bott,  105,  148. 
Botetourt,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  127, 

252,  253,  420. 
Bottoms  bridge,  417,  418. 
Bow.  192. 
Boweter,  170. 
Bowlin,  164. 

Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  204. 
Bowls,  301. 

Bowman,  3,  13,  147,  148,  149. 
Bowyer,  25,  421. 


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Boyd,  77.  148,  301.  3 « 2. 

Boykin,  306. 

Boys,  46. 

Boyse,  145. 

Box,  70. 

Brace  well,  302. 

Bradby,  358. 

Braddock,  12. 

Bradshaw.  25,  422. 

Braeg,  yS. 

Brakenndge,  148. 

Branch,  430. 

Branchester,  439. 

Brand,  68. 

Brandon.  Va.,  210,  211,  297,  357, 
425. 

Brandon,  V'a.,  epitaphs  at  "Church 
Pastures,'*  210. 

Brandywine,  313. 

Branham,  61,  330. 

Bratton,  421. 

Bray,  397- 

Brazenose,  92. 

Breckenridge,  42 1. 

Breet,  138. 

Brennan,  85,  191. 

Bremo,  70,  331. 

*'Bremoes  Dividend,"  70. 

Brent,  74,  292,  426. 

Brent  Quarter,  68. 

Brick  House  Quarter,  67. 

Bridge,  298. 

Bridge  Quarter,  67. 

Bridgers,  191. 

Briggs,  M9. 

Briggs  Family,  356. 

Bristoe,  192. 

Bristow,  74. 

Bristol,  12. 

Bristol  Parish,  Va.,  Vestry 
Book  and  Register  of,  re- 
view, 105. 

Brock,  302. 

Brockenbrough,  53,  60,  61,  238,  331. 

Brocksoppe,  169. 

Brodnax,  105,  146. 

Brodwell,  437. 

Brody,  312- 

Bromfield,  302. 

Bronaugh,  148. 

Brough,  194. 

Broughton,  439. 

Brouse,  72. 

Brooke,  289,  300,  311,  436. 

Brooke,  Judge  F.  T.,  Letter  of,  289. 

Brookes,  148. 

Brown,  51,  78,  85,  86,  137.  146,  148, 


149.  129,  189,  204,  275.  433»  434, 
435,  436. 

Browning,  431. 

Brown's  Line,  124. 

Browne,  191,  192,  314. 

Brownsboro,  245. 

Broun  ridge,  69. 

Bruce,  25,  317. 

Bruckle,  213. 

Brudly,  210. 

Brunk,  304. 
'  Brunswick,  11. 

Bruton,  318. 

Bryan,  68,  71. 

Bryant,  147. 
'  Br>'ant's  Camp,  444. 

Buchanan,  3,  12,  16,  25,   108,   148, 
149,  311,  422. 
j  Buck,  147,  375. 

1  Buckingham,  13,  85,  196,  325,  419, 
:  Buckner,  25,  299,  426. 
'  Buckhom  Swamp,  339. 
I  Buckley,  25,  192,  345,  346,  348. 

Buffaloes,  9. 

Buford,  5,  14,  147,  294. 

Bulmur,  298. 

B.ullock,  347. 

Bull  Run.  13,  68. 

Burch,  65,  83,  190,  195. 

Burden,  298. 

Burfoot,  16,  192. 

Burges,  193. 

Burgesses,  House  of,  15,  16,  17,  39, 
50,  84,  96,  102,  127,  153,  <?/ J<r^., 
171,  199,  270.  300,  424. 

Burke,  25. 

Burleign,  25. 

Burnett,  155,  311. 

Bums,  113-118,  227,  406,  437. 

Burnes,  227. 

Burrows  Hill,  365. 

Burroughs,  103. 

Burnyeat,  170. 

Bushrod,  171. 

Burthurne,  193. 

Burtin,  147,  301. 

Burwell,  154,  240,  398,  399. 

Butt,  40,  360,  361. 

Butte,  25. 

Butler,  40,  57,  125,  201,  207,  311, 
318,  365. 

Button,  25. 

Byrd,  240,  276-286,  340,  400,  444. 

BvRD,   Hon.   Wm.,   Letter    to,  ' 
FROM  Gov.  Fauquier,  1760, 
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Cabell,  37.  254,  255- 

Cardenham,  73. 

Cadiz,  44. 

Cadwallader,  426. 

Caesar,  42,  271,  272. 

Came,  25,  104. 

Caldwell,  422. 

California,  207. 

Call,  105. 

Callaway,  9, 11,  16, 67,  150,  152,  245, 

256. 
Calloway,  34. 
Calvert,  40,42,  53.  212. 
Cambridge,  432,  433. 
Camden,  313. 
Cameron,  26,  105,  153. 
Campbell.  5,  7,  8,  12,  25,  26,  30,  40, 

67,  78,  119,  122,  126,  127.  215, 

229,  234,  239  241,  255. 
Camp,  149,  152,  256,  257,  289,  301, 

326,  369.  417.  421.  422. 
Camp  Randolph,  241. 
Capitol  Square,  241,  406. 
Capps,  259,  372,  377. 
Canada,  140,  414. 
Canfield,  314. 
Cannart,  95. 
Cannady,  254,  271. 
Cannon,  150,  255. 
Canterbury,  Archbishop  of,  272. 
Cantzon,  446. 
Card  well,  150. 
Carew,  40. 
Camll,  212,  357. 
Carlaverock,  293. 
Carleton,  39. 
Carlile,  422. 
Carlisle,  40. 
Carlyle,  300. 
Carnegie,  311. 
Caroline  county,  Va.,  47,  68,  425, 

427. 
Carpenter,  5,  423. 
Carr,  149,  150,   151,  249,  256,  302. 

324,  402. 
Carrack,  216. 
Carrington,  30,  32,  34,  35,  86,  204, 

254.  255. 
Carrollton,  Ills.,  437. 
Carsey,  150. 
Carter,  6,   14,  64,  68,  87,  102,  149, 

150,  204,  239,  255,  256,  279,  284, 

306,  325»  327.  390,  393,  394,  423, 

425- 
Carter's  Valley,  12. 
Carthrae,  442. 
Cartmell,  25,  26. 


I  Cartwright,  40. 

I  Cary,  13,  26,  67,  149.  151,  152,  240, 
254,  255,  256,  356,  437. 

Caskie,  38. 

Cason,  151. 
*  Cass,  24. 
I  Castle  Hill,  252. 
1  Caswell,  89. 
I  Cataret,  346. 

Catawbas,  340,  etseq. 

Catchawerco,  350. 

Cathire,  418. 
.  Cattle,  65,  68.  98,  106,  301. 

Caussey,  46,  50,  191. 

Cawsons,  191. 

Cawthom,  301. 
I  Cave,  26. 
!  Cedar  creek,  398. 

Cedargrove,  73. 

Cedar  run,  425. 
\  Centre  Hill,  78. 
■  Census,  434. 

I  Census  of  Virginia,  1630,  381. 
!  Chaffin,  323,  430. 
,  Chaffing,  151. 
!  Chalkley,  421. 

Chamberlayne,   105,  228,  300,  418. 

Chambers,  191,  365. 
,  Champins,  2^. 
'  Chancellorsville,  205. 

Chappell,  105. 
,  Chaplin,  46,  4^,  145. 
'  Chaplain  Choice,  366. 
I  Chapman,  193,  204,  440. 
{  Chapman  (Clapham  ,  440. 
i  Charles  I,  132,  268. 
I  Charles    I,  to   Gov.    Harvey, 
1629,  372. 

Charles  City,  47,  7«,   190,   191,  366. 

Charles  river,  297. 

Charleston.  13,  293,  307. 

Charlotte,  31. 

Charlotte  county,  Va.,  31,  32. 

Charlottesville,  102,  119,  435. 

Chastain,  300,  301. 

Cheatham,  430. 

Cherokee,  127,  252,  419,  420. 

Cherokee  Expedition,  11. 

Cherokee  Indians,  243,  446. 

Cherry.  149,  i^o. 
,  Cherry  Grove,  125. 
I  Chesapeake,  407,  414. 

Chester,  91. 
'  Chesterfield,  16,  124,  126,  322,  434. 

Chew,  46,  195,  254,  297,  302. 

Chew  Family,  50. 
1  Chew's  Point,  195. 


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Chicago,  429. 

Chichester,  40,  42,  56,  79,  272. 

Chickahominy,  423. 

Chickahominy  river,  298. 

Childers,  254,  256. 

Childs,  324. 

Childress,  430. 

Chinn,  33,  89,  331. 

Chippewa,  127. 

Chippoaks,  423. 

Chiro.  202. 

Chisman,  170,  254. 

Chisel,  2. 

Chiswell,  8,  464. 

Chiles,  26. 

Chiswell  Fort,  9. 

Choate,  257. 

Chowan  nver,  351,  352,  337. 

Chowning,  ijo,  152. 

Christ  Church,  91,  425. 

Christian,  2,  7,  14,  26,  114,  118,  150, 

151,  152,  177,  192,  204,  243,  251, 

.257,  306,  422,  439. 
Chnstian*s  Campaign  of  1776  and 

1777  in  S.  W.  Va.  and  N.  C, 

243,  etseq, 
Christophers,  256^ 
Ch rogue,  25. 
Church  Pastures,  210. 
Churchill,  21,  22,  23,  150,  285,  357, 

438. 
City  Point,  190,  191. 
Clack,  301,  399. 
Claiborne,  26,  105,   130,  136,   140, 

151,  259,  268,  377. 
Clarke,  96,  97,  118,  150.   151,  252, 

254,  255,  256,  421,  429. 
Clarksburg,  90. 
Clarkson's  Creek,  297. 
Clarkson,  257. 
Clarksville,  Tenn  ,  252. 
Clasby  &  Smith,  17,  402. 
Clare  Hall,  432. 
Claremont,  211. 
Clay  Hill,  97. 
Clay,  13,   105,    117,   124,    125,    151, 

204.  257,  446. 
Claughton,  152,   157,  172,  174,  198, 

257,  331- 

Cleaner,  423. 

Clements,  96,  301,  430. 

Clergy  Ordained  and  Licensed 
FOR  the  American  Colo- 
nies, 1669-1710,  310,  ei  seq. 

Clergy,  157,311. 

Cleveland,  4,  5,  13,  121,  123,  124, 
128,  402,  403. 


Clinch.  3j  404. 

Clinch  River,  8,  12. 

Clifton,  82  87,  324. 

Clifton  Place,  86. 

Cloyd,  255. 

Cloverfield,  304. 

Clubb,  311. 

Chickasaw,  11. 

Cluverius,  150,  151,  254. 

Cobbs,  97,  208,  209,  254,  256,  295 

Coburn,  no. 

Cockbum,  235. 

Cocke,  72,  102,  149,  150,  152,  153, 

190*  193,  244,  253,  255,  298,  360, 

404,  439- 
Cockerhams,  357. 
Coffer,  256. 
Coger,  422. 
Coggin,  255. 
Coghills,  95. 
Cohoon,  213. 
Coke,  152. 
Coker,  26. 
Coleman,  69,    149,   204,   212,  256, 

43».  446. 
Coleman,  John,  epitaph,  212. 
Comer,  153. 
Comfort,  33,  34. 
Company's  land,  365. 
Compton,  154. 
Conner,  360. 
Cook,  25,  no.  151. 
Cooke,  152,  299,  318,  426,  439- 
Cooper,  25,  149,  151,  152,  195,  197. 

437. 
Cooper's  Ferry,  175. 
Cople  parish,  412. 
Cole,  25,  53,  68,  149,  150,  152,  169, 

193.  213,255,  461. 
Coles,  149.  200,  254,  257,  398. 
Coles  Family,  ioi,  et  seq,  326,  et 

seq,  428,  ei  seq. 
Coles,  Governor  Edw.,  sketch  of, 

327,  el  seq,  428,  el  seq. 
Coles  Hill,  101,  200. 
Colston,  53. 
Coles  Point,  68. 
Collashowrock,  343. 
College  land,  424. 
Collett,  321,  322,  432,  433. 
Collie,  152. 
Collier,  150,  254. 
Collins,  12,  150. 
Collis.  151. 
Colly,  150. 
Congley,  190. 


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455 


Connor,  307. 
Connett,  327. 
Conway,  40,  42,  43. 45.  SO,  103,  151. 

426,  427. 
Corbett,  321. 
Corbin,  187,  235. 
Cordiner,  311. 
Corill.  436. 

Corn  harvest,  1624,  131. 
Comick,  256. 
Cornwall^  73. 
Comwalhs,  121,  313. 
Corprew,  256. 
Corotoman,  425. 
Cosby,  152. 
Council  of  Virginia,  238,  258,  268, 

433.  434.  445* 

Council  of  Virginia,  Members 
OF,  IN  1630,  384. 

Council  OF  Virginia,  Minutes, 
February,  8-10,  1704,  393, 
396. 

Councillors  ol  Virginia,  how  ap- 
pointed. 393,  394. 

Courts  in  Virginia,  372. 

Coursey,  25. 

Coulthard,  99. 

Coutts,  255,  256. 

Covell,  296. 

Coventry,  40. 

Cowdon,  422. 

Cowes,  163. 

Cowherd,  26. 

Cowles,  149. 

Cowley,  152,  255,  256. 

Cowling,  151.  381. 

CowincTcehoccauk,  351. 

Cowinchahawkon,  341. 

Cowper,  151.  213,  258. 

Cox,  105,  J91,  256,  257,  400,  431, 
446. 

Coxe,  191. 

Crabtree,  249. 

Craft,  191. 

Craig,  100,  104. 

Craik,  293. 

Craddocke,  423. 

Craig,  104,  153,  254,  256,  422. 

Cralle,  255. 

Craney  creek,  75. 

Craney  Island,  235. 

Cranfield,  272. 

Craven,  442. 

Cravens,  26. 

Crawford,  26,  311. 

Crawley,  210. 

Creek  Indians,  12. 


Cremer,  152. 

Crew,  151,  204. 

Crickatrough,  170. 

Crane,  67,  72. 

Crittenden,  431,  436. 

Crocket,  257. 

Cromer,  301. 

Cromwell,  402. 

Crooked  Creek,  209. 

Crookshanks,  254. 

Cross  256. 

Croshaw,  46,  50,  195. 

Cross  Creek,  298,  423. 

Crouch,  193,  256. 

Croucher,  9iB. 

Crowder,  66. 

Crowes,  426. 

Crow,  25. 

Crump,  69. 

Crutchfiefd,  153,  235. 

Culpeper,  25.  26,  27,  28,  89,   150, 

198.  346,  398,  426,  437. 
Cumberland,  14,  86,  121,  125,  126, 

240. 
Cumberland  Gap,  405. 
Cunningham,  25,  26,  104,  no,  152, 

256. 
Curd,  206,  312. 
Cureton,  105. 
Curies,  69. 

Currituck,  337,  345,  349. 
Curry,  422. 
Curtis,  21,  68. 
Cub  Creek,  35. 
Cutts,  200. 

Dabbs,  430. 

Dabney,  26,  34,  412,  414. 

Dade,  299,  426. 

Dale,  61,  69,  269,  275. 

Dalton,  419. 

Dameron,  140. 

Dan  River,  6. 

Dancing  Point,  139. 

Daingerfield,  26,  300. 

Dandridge,  19,  26,  79,  340,  419. 

Daniel,  22,  26,  330,  419,  438. 

Danville,  89,  204. 

Darden,  418. 

Dargon,  68. 

Dart,  420. 

Darrall,  319. 

Davis,  26,   187,  203,  227,  297,  298, 

325.  418,  419.  420,  421,  423. 
Davenport,  53,  61,  62,  63,  419. 
Davidson,  420. 
Dawkings,  23. 


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Dawson,  69. 

Day,  419- 

Dean,  421. 

Deforest.  420. 

De  Graffenried,  448. 

Delaney,  85. 

Dellington,  172. 

Delegates,  House  of,  126,  239. 

Delone,  210. 

Delohay,  70. 

De  La  Warr,  263. 

D*Emilliane,  311. 

Denholm,  229,  234,  240,  241. 

Dennis,  179. 

De  Jamett,  267,  368. 

Dery,  343. 

Dettingen,  217. 

Dery,  344. 
Dew,  170,  331. 
Devon,  194. 
Diana  (Boat),  139. 
Dibrell,  325. 
Dick,  26. 
Dickey,  26. 

Dickinson,  67,  419,  420,  440. 
Diddle,  26. 

Digges,  394,  395.  397,  40  r. 
Difke;  46,  49. 
Dilke's  Quarter,  68. 
Dillard,  4,  26,  418,  419,  428. 
Dillingham,  418. 
Dilloe,  297. 
Dillon,  296. 
Dilly,  26. 
Dinimock,  330. 
Dinwiddie  county,  341. 
Dixon,  81,  419,  422. 
Ditchfield,  40. 
Dix,  420. 
Doak,  33. 
Doake,  109,  320. 
Dobekin,  109. 
Dodge,  78. 

Donelson,  8,  15,  245,  420. 
Donelly,  420,  422. 
Donnington  parish,  gj. 
Dooley,  420. 
Dorchester,  435. 
Dorsey,  207. 
Douglas,  84,  326,  419. 
Douthart,  99. 
Draggon  Cfanoe,  6,  251. 
Draper,  127,  401,  405. 
Draper  Coi lection,  Wisconsin  His- 
torical Society,  401. 
Drew,  4'^  4»3»  4*6. 
Drewry,  419. 


Dunkin,  419. 

Driver,  213,  302. 

Drummond,  348. 

Drummondtown,  442. 

Dryas,  67. 

Drysart,  420. 

Du  Bose,  446. 

Dubree,  419. 

Dubrey,  419. 

Duckenfield,  348,  349. 

Dudley,  43 ».  446. 

Duffie,  418. 

Duffey,  419. 

Duke,  Henry,  83,  393,  400,  435. 

Dumfries,  293. 

Dun,  311,  419. 

Duncombe,  192. 

Duncon.  88,  207,  306. 

Dunlop,  301,  419,  422. 

Dunn,  99. 

Ehinnington,  30. 

Dupuy,  38. 

Durant,  346,  347,  420. 

Durrent,  172. 

Durrock,  69. 

Dutch  Gap,  191,  424. 

Dutch  Gap  Canal,  69. 

Dutch  Fleet,  194. 

Du  Val,  325. 

Downes,  69,  195. 

Downham,  63. 

Downing,  419,  420. 

Downman,  53,  62,  330. 

Dysart,  3,  12,  419. 

Dyke,  40. 

Edge,  193. 

Eagles  Nest,  317,  425. 

Eagle  Tavern,  241. 

Ealing,  434. 

Eastern  Shore,  141,  189,  366. 

Easton,  180. 

East  Sheen,  91. 

Eaton,  298,  404,  438. 

Eaton's  Fort.  9. 

Edinburgh,  125,  239. 

Eddins,  85. 

Edloe,  191,  423. 

Edmund,  26. 

Edmonds,  40,  42,  69,  303,  304. 

Edmundson,  47,  170,  421. 

Edwards,    40,    95,    192,   214,   304^ 

311,  328. 
Edwardsville,  328. 
Effingham,  202. 
E^gleston,  430. 
Eides,  26. 


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"^ 


Egle,  103. 

Elder,  55. 

Eldridge,  210,  398. 

Elector,  433. 

Elizabeth  City,  100,  192,  193,  194, 

296,  297,  345.  364,  365.  366,  429, 

43;3. 
Elk  River.  216. 
Elkton,  298. 
Ellis,  140,  241,  236. 
Elliott,  284,  301,  446. 
Ellzey,  265. 
Emperor,  171. 
English,  51,  106. 
Enniscorthy,  102. 
Enquirer,  Richmoud,  413. 
Epes,  31,  78,  190,  191. 
Episcopal  Church,  310. 
Epitaphs  OF  Virginians  in 

Georgia,  210,  211,  212. 
Eppes  Family,  Notes  on,  71,  72, 

105,  «9o.  309»  354,  355,  424,  439, 

440. 
Eppesville,  439. 
Erwin,  422. 
Eskridge,  434,  435- 
Estill,  26,  85,  422. 
Estin,  26. 
Estoutville,  429. 
Essex,  41,  96. 
Essex  county,  96,  431. 
Eubank,  432. 
Eustace,  53. 
Eutaw  Springs,  104. 
Ewell,  26. 
Ewing,  304. 
4  Evans,  195,  309,  311. 
Evelin  296. 
Eves,  192. 
Exeter,  40. 

Faber,  312. 

Fairfax,  73,  103,  425. 

Falls  Quarter,  68 

Falling  River,  208. 

Falmouth,  426. 

Farbunie,  191. 

Farish,  421. 

Farmers  Bank,  417. 

Farmer,  416,  430. 

Farmville,  30. 

Farnham    Parish,   Richmond 

Co.,  Va.,    Extracts   from 

Register  of,  ^2,  et  seq, 
Ferrar  (Farrar),  Nicholas,  Sr.,  of 

London,   Notice  and   will  of, 

322,  et  seq. 


Farrar,  69,  21 2,  260,  273,  319,  eiseq., 

384.  424. 
Farrar  Family,  319,  et  seq.,  432, 

et  seq. 
Farrar's  island,  70. 
Farthing,  191. 
Fauber,  26. 
Fauntleroy,  54,  33'- 
Fauquier,  48,  73,  88,  90,  104,  201, 

304,  305,  425.  448. 

Fauquier  county  militia,  Capt.  Wm. 
Edward's  company  of,  in  1761, 
305. 

Fauquier,  Governor,  444. 

Fauquier,  Governor,  Letter 
TO  Wm.  Bvrd,  1760,  444. 

Fayette  County,  Ky.,  16,  83. 

Fayetteville,  83. 

Febinger,  26. 

Felgate*s  creek,  95. 

Fendal,  426. 

Ferdinand,  437. 

Fermer,  71. 

Femeaux,  426. 

Femow,  153. 

Fewson,  69. 

Field,  329. 

Fielding's  place,  66. 

Filson  Club,  252. 

Finche,  159,  384. 

Finch  Park,  194. 

Finlays,  246. 

Finley,  26. 

Finney,  312. 

Firth,  51. 

Fisher,  26,  90,  436. 

Fishback.  437. 

Fiske,  369. 

Fiztgerald,  37,  431. 

Fitzhugh,  26,  74,  196,  199,  299,  300. 

Fitzhugh  Family,  196,^/^^^,317, 
et  seq,  425,  et  seq. 

Fitzhugh  Arms,  half  tone  illus- 
tration, October  magazine. 

Fitzhugh,  Henry,  Bedford,  Eng- 
land, half  tone  portrait,  Octo- 
ber magazine. 

Fitzhugh,  Captain  Henry,  of 
*'  Bedford,"  half  tone  portrait, 
January  magazine. 

Fitzhugh.  Colonel  William, 
half  tone  portrait,  January 
magazine. 

Fitzwilliams,  340. 

Flat  creek,  97. 

Flax,  bounty  on,  284. 

Flax  making  in  Va.,  284. 


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Fleming,  53,  54,  80.  81.  206.  216, 

415. 
Flesher,  26. 
Flint,  446. 

Flour,  princes  in  1813-14,  et  seg. 
Flower  de  Hundred,  71. 
Floyd,  8,  16,  198,  138. 
Fluvanna,  80,  200. 
Foggs,  422. 
Foker,  69. 
Fontaine,  26. 
Foote,  24,  300. 
FooTE  Family,  73,  et  seg.,  201  ei 

seg, 
Forbes,  312.  437- 
Foreman,  179. 
Ford,  323,  405,  431. 
Fork  Quarter.  67. 
Forrest  Quarter,  68. 
Fort  Henry,  420. 
Fort  Patrick  Henry,  11,  15. 
Fort  Powhatan,  227. 
Fort  Stanwix,  252. 
Fort  Stephen,  418. 
Fort  Washington,  239. 
Fort  Worth,  437. 
Forsett,  195. 
Foster,  61,  69,  446. 
Four  Mile  Creek,  69,  70. 
Four  Mile  Tree,  192. 
Fouace,  277,  ei  seg. 
Foushee,  53,  54,  229,  et  seg. 
Foushee  family,  note  on,  239. 
Fountains,  439. 
Fowler,  298. 
Fox,  170. 
Fox  Hill,  297. 
Fraine,  69. 

Franklin,  9,  12,  124,  128,  402,  403. 
Franklin,  State  of,  14,  253. 
Fraser,  311. 

Fredericksburg,  288,  293,  409,  418. 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,  residence  of 

John  Paul  Jones  in,  287. 
Fredericksville  parish,  83. 
Field,  191. 
Fields,  26. 
Freedly,  no. 
Freeland,  298. 

Freeman,  40,  297,  298,  428,  438. 
Friela,  421. 
Freeze,  195. 
Fremont,  412. 
French,  13,  438,  439- 
Fry,  446. 

Frying  Pan  Quarter,  68. 
Fulton,  421. 


Gain,  86. 

Gaine,  10. 

Galesky,  422. 

Gallatin,  Tenn  ,  83. 

Gallatin,  89,  407. 

Galloway,  26. 

Gaily,  190. 

Galveston,  Tex.,  437. 

Game  and  Field  Sports  in 
Virginia  in  1739,  172-174. 

Gamwell,  422. 

Gardner,  331. 

Garden,  365. 

Garland,  26. 

Gamer,  69,  306. 

Garrett.  193,  431. 

Garth,  84. 

Gamon,  233. 

Gaskins,  56. 

Gaugh,  422. 

Gay,  26. 

Genealogical  Notes,  13,  14, 15, 
16,  17.  47.  48.  49.  50.  100,  103, 
120,  124,  125,  190,  193,  216,  217, 
352.  354.  357,  361,  397,  399,  400, 
424,  441.  442. 

Genealogies:  Bassett-Stith  (437), 
Booker  (94,  208,  322,  429),  Coles 
(101,  3  6.  438),  Eskridge  (434), 
Fitzhugh  (196,  317,  425),  Farrar 
(319,  432).  Foote  (73,  2oi), 
Payne  (79,  200),  Poythress  71, 
438).  Pryor  (75,  206),  Rodes  (82, 
203),  Withers  (87),  Yates  (91, 
330,  436). 

General  Assembly,  271. 

George,  145,  210. 

Georgia,  403. 

Germans,  106,  447,  448. 

Germanna,  448. 

Germany,  433. 

German  town,  313,  448. 

Germayne,  40 

Gholson,  92,  437,  446. 

Gibbes,  26,  40. 

Gibbons,  229.  et  seg..  239. 

Gibson,  26,  69.  212,  305,  422. 

Gibson's  Place,  66-68. 

Gidding,  433. 

Gideon,  82. 

Gilbert,  47. 

Gilchrist,  213. 

Giles,  33,  213,  323,  425,  426. 

Gill.  105. 

Gilliam,  72,  105,  309,  439. 

Gilmer,  11,  207. 

Gillison,  26. 


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Gist,  12. 

Gosport,  3,  13,  287. 

Givens,  36,  94. 

Glascock,  54,  55,  56.  126. 

Glencaple  Quay,  293. 

Glenn,  312. 

Gloster,  420. 

Gloucester,  25,  27,  47,  75,  76,  79, 

172.  239.  295,  414,  429»  431. 
Gloucester  county,  91,  95,  100. 
Glover,  Joseph,  epitaph,  211. 
Glover,  95,  126,  340. 
Goodwin,  195,  213. 
Golden  Fortune,  73. 
Gordon,  9,  16,  79,  205,  311.  312, 

398,  404,  414,  438- 
Gorges,  139. 
Gorsuch,  44. 
Gower,  26,  55,  61,  105. 
Gooch.  26. 
Goochland,  78,  79,  80.  81,  125,  200, 

206,  295,  313,  400. 
Goode.  77,  190,  430,  446. 
Goodell,  26. 
Goodman,  84,  203,  302. 
Goodwin,  195,  213. 
Goodwyn,  312. 
Gorrell,  422. 
Goston,  40. 
Gottenburg,  411. 
Goudyloch,  441. 
Grace,  311. 

"  Grampian  Hills,**  437. 
Granbury,  213. 
Grandison,  272. 
Grange,  193. 
Grant,  75,  207. 
Gratten,  304. 
Gratz,  13. 

Graves,  13,  116,  118,  193,  332,  431- 
Gray,  217,  311,  446. 
Grayson,  26. 
Great  Barford,  196. 
Great  Falls,  181. 
Great  Mill,  66,  68. 
Green,  26,  48,  105,  125,  218,  300. 
Greene's,  404 
Greenbrier,  25,  26. 
Green  county,  Ga.  212. 
Greenleafe.  69. 
Green  Meadows,  90. 
Green  Spring,  356. 
Greenhow,  234,  236,  241. 
Green  river,  84. 
Greete,  69,  70. 
Gregan,  293. 
Gregory,  105,  414. 


Grecnhuse,  196. 

Grendon,  171. 

Grey,  207. 

Griefs,  26. 

Griffin,  54,  55,  56,  57,  58,  316.  395. 

Gnggs.  193. 

German,  315. 

Grymes,  240,  425. 

Gryndon,  189. 

Guilford,  404. 

Gurganej,  70. 

Guests  nver,  9. 

Guy.  266,  311. 


Gyllam,  69. 
Gignillat,  312. 


Hackwell,  40. 

Haeger,  313. 

Hapel,  356. 

Hail  Weston,  103. 

Hains,  26. 

Hale^,  76. 

Halifax,  78,  102,  438. 

Halifax,  N.  C,  438. 

Halifax  county,  N.  C,  86. 

Hall,  26,  69,  162,  208,  222,  422. 

Halloway,  353. 

Hammer,  217. 

Hampden  Sidney  Colleg 
Trustees  of,  30,  et  seq, 

Hamilton,  26,  68,  422. 

Hamlin,  77,  105. 

Hammond,  309,  310. 

Hamor,  46,  49,  131,  136,   146,  189, 
260,  268,  283. 

Hampshire.  25,  26,  27,  29. 

Hampton,  225,  409,  410,  419. 

Hampton  Court,  397. 

Hampton    Roads,    194,    364,   365, 
366. 

Hamstead  quarter,  68. 

Hand,  27.  95,  100,  429. 

Handford,  40. 

Handley.  26. 

Hanna,  227. 

Hansen,  428. 

Hanover  county,  Va.,  26,  47,  82, 
i         84,  203. 

I  Hardaway,  97,  100,  105,  430- 
I  Hardiman,  69,  212,  343. 

Hardyman,  341,  342,  354. 

Hardyman  Family,  354-355- 
,  Hardmg,  415. 

Harlan,  437. 

Harper,  445. 

Harris,  14,  46,  49.  5o,  69,  70,  84, 85. 
86,  208,  227,  300,  312,  326.  446. 


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Harrison,  13,  26,  81,  loi,  105,  190,  I 
204,   213,   276,   278,    279,    295. 
300,  303»  306.  314,  324,  332,  341, 
342,  343»  352,  356.  357.  393,  398, 
399,  421,  425,  437,  459,  442. 

Harrison  Family,  357. 

Harrison,  Benjamin,  Epitaph,  17 13, 
283.  I 

Harrison,  Nathaniel  (ist),  357-358. 

Harrison,  Sarah,  promise  of  mar- 
riage, 277. 

Harrison,  Sarah,  notice  of  her  mar- 
riage, 277 

Harrison's  Quarter,  67.  1 

Harrison's  Virginia  and  Maryland 
Artillery,  431. 

Harroe  Attucks,  191. 

Harihatox,  423. 

Harrod,  8,  15. 

Harrodsburg,  15,  253. 

Harrop,  368. 

Hart,  13,  134,  192,  278,  423. 

Hartford,  309. 

Hartland,  194. 

Harvey,  51,  69,  129,  191,  260.  296, 
320,  359.  364.  368,  369,  372,  373,  ' 
377,378,380,  38 ',383,  384,  385,  ! 
421.422,423. 

Harvey,  John,  and  the  Council  of ' 
Virginia,  Commission  of  162^,  j 
260.  I 

Harvey,  Governor  John,  Adminis- 
tration of,  368-386. 

Harvev,  Sir  John,  to  Receive 
THE  Fines  of  Virginia,  372.  | 

Harvev,  Governor,  to  Lord  I 
Dorchester,  1630,375,^/5^^.,  1 
379,  et  seq.  \ 

Harvey,  Governor,  to  the 
Privy  Council,  1630,  380, 
et  seq,  ' 

Harvey,  Governor,  Petition  \ 
Concerning  Dr.  Pott,  1630,  1 
382,  et  seq, 

Harvey,  Governor,  Letter  to,  i 
from  the  Privy  Council,  | 
1630-31,  385,  et  seq. 

Harvie,  422.  ' 

Harwar,  61.  I 

Haslett,  349.  I 

Hatcher,  105,  301.  | 

Hatcher's  Run,  341. 

Hawes    Haws),  26,  27,  40. 

Hawfield,  427. 

Hawkins,  27,  300,  313,  320.  I 

Hawkhurst,  172.  I 

Hawks,  26,  63.  I 


Hay.  227,  272,  398. 

Hayden,  426,  427. 

Hayes.  227.  240.  330,  427. 

Hays,  26.  J09 

Hayward.  70.  73,  74,  I99« 

Haywood,  124,  198. 

Hedgman,  299. 

Heatherly,  194. 

Hely,  69. 

Henderson,    11,    26,  27,   209,    244, 

253.  430. 
Hendon,  27. 
Hening,  338 
Henrico  county.  Va..  69,  70,    191, 

423,  424. 
Henry,  9,   101,   102,   125.  242.  253, 

306. 
Henry  county,  Va..  i,  4.  9. 
Herbert.  105.  271,  272. 
Herrin,  306, 
Heselius,  199. 
Heslett,  343,  345, 
Hazard,  189. 
Hazleward,  195. 
Heal,  Heale,  53,  56,  80. 
Heath,  26,  40,  45,  189,  192,  302. 
Heath,  Sir  Robert.  Letter  to 

Sir  Edward  Conway,  1624, 

45. 
Hesselius,  427. 
Hewes,  71. 
Hews,  66. 
Hewick.  1 7,  285. 
Hewitt,  26. 
Heynes,  60. 
Hiccory  Thicket.  67. 
Hickory  Hill,  318. 
Hickerson,  204. 
Hicklin,  26. 
Hill,  26,  35,  208,  276-286,  305,  306, 

422.  430,  439,  446. 
Hanson's  quarter,  68. 
Hindman,  no.  312. 
Hinds,  58. 

Hinton,  105,  192,  437,  439. 
Hoard,  404. 
Hobkirks,  240. 
Hobson,  137. 
Hodges.  191,  279,  298. 
Hodson.  423. 
Hoge,  Hogue,  31,  et  seq,  36,  239, 

307. 
Hogarth,  74. 
Hogshead,  421. 
Holder,  11. 
Holland,  46,  50,  70,  80,   198,  324, 

361. 


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Holliday,  27,  3',  33,  193- 

Hollifield,  309. 

Holman,  295. 

Holmes,  217. 

Holmesburg,  73. 

Hollsclaw,  306. 

Holston,  Holstein  river,  2,  6,  7,  9, 

15,  26,  84,  122,   123,  126,  403, 

404. 
Honyman,  311,  312. 
Hooe.  299,  427. 
Hooke,  69,  296,  297. 
Hooker,  310. 
Hooton,  169. 
Hopkins,  83,  346. 
Hopson,  81. 
Hop  Yard,  426. 
Hord,  Hoard,  13,  202,  247. 
Hornby,  99.  • 

Home,  298. 
Horses,  10,  23,  246. 
Horsmanden,  284. 
Horton,  205. 
Hoskins,  33 '»  336. 
Howard,  9. 
Howe,  298. 
Howell,  69  70,  295. 
Howlett,  424. 
Hucks,  423. 
Hudibras,  197. 
Hudnall,  305. 
Hudson,  216,   217.   312,  413,   429, 

430- 
Hudson  Family,  Note,  216. 
Hughart,  26. 
Hughes,  125,  430- 
Hull,  26. 
Hulton,  26. 
Hulland,  193. 

Humphrey,  27,  192,  440,  441. 
Huncke,  376. 
Hunt,  205. 

Hunter,  10,  213,  340,  362,  419. 
Huntingdonshire,  433. 
Huston,  421. 
Hutcher,  25 r. 
Hutch  ins,  4. 
Hutchinson,  no,  431. 
Hurt,  68. 
Hyde,  349. 

Illinois,  429. 

Indians,  i,  2,  et  seq.,  8,  10,  11,  12, 
13,  14,  15,  71,  108. 114,  118,  119, 
120,  123,  127,  131,  135,  141,  143, 
164,  214,  252,  257,  262,  269,  337- 
358,  404. 


Indians,   War    with,    in   Virginia, 

1624,  130. 
Indians,  Number  of,   in  southern 

Virginia  in  1670.  340. 
Indians  of  Southern  Virginia, 

1650- 17 1 1,  337-358. 
Indians,  Sketch  of  History  of,  in 

Southern  Virginia,   1650-1711, 

337-340. 
Indians  of  Virginia,  1630,  378. 
Indians,   Cherokee,   Treaty    with, 

1777.  ii3-»«6, 
Indian's  Creek,  405. 
Indian  Stone,  297. 
Ingles,  8,  383,  397. 
Ingles,  Rev.  Mungo,  397. 
Innis,  27. 
Ireland,  126. 
Iron  Works,  265. 
Irby,  105. 
Isham,  331. 
I  Isle  of  VVight,  170,  418. 
Italy.  169,  433. 
Islow,  27. 

fackman,  301,  306. 

Jacobson.  298. 
ackson,  15,  207. 
James,  414. 

James  City.  82,  97,   142,   169,    192. 
258-268,  356,  364,  366,  348,  398, 

423. 
Jamestown,  411. 
James  river,  69,  181,  191,  21  r,  214, 

309.  339»  415- 

iames  river,  Navigation  of,  414. 
anssen,  433. 
j  Jaquitt,  306. 
i  Jarman,  204. 
Jefferson,   102,  302,  313,  323,  326, 

327,  428,  429,  430,  441,  445. 
Jeffersonton,  437. 
Jeffries,  306. 
Jenings,  60,  88,  S9,  276,  286,  302, 

3".  431. 
Jessamine  county,  Ky.,  214. 
Jesse,  402. 
Jesuit,  166. 
Jeter,  431. 

I  Johnson,  40,  68,  69,   271,  301,302, 
I  359,  361,  403,  445. 

;  Johnson    Family,    Princess    Anne 

county,  Va.,  361. 
Johnston,  32,  125,  241,  306,  312,  441, 

'  447. 

foanes,  298. 
Jones,  27,  77.78,  79,  85.  86,  105,  126, 


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192,  286,  293,  298,  300,  311,  330, 

421,  424,  430- 
Jones  Place,  66. 
Jones,  John  Paul,  as  a  Citizen 

OF  Virginia,  286,  eiseq. 
Jordon,  89,  105,  192,  210,  298,  314, 

434. 
Jordans.  78,  439- 
Jordans  Jomc>',  366. 
Joseph  Swamp,  357. 

Kanawha,  8,  182. 

Kamey,  27. 

Kauffman,  110. 

Kicoughtan,  140. 

Kidnapping,  188. 

Keene,  87,  195. 

Keith,  311,  358,  399,  437. 

Keller,  27. 

Kemp,  27,  442. 

Kemper  Family  in  the  United 

States,  Genealogy  of,  re- 
view, 361,  448. 
Kendall,  England,  241. 
Kempston,  196. 
Kenney,  422. 

Kennon,  105,  295,  302,  355. 
Kent  county,  England,  172. 
Kent,  73- 
Keper,  27. 
Kentucky,  i.  6,  8,  12,  13,  15,  83,  85, 

90,  118.  245,  252,  402,  404,  427, 

437. 
Kerby,  100. 
Kerr,  83,  422. 
Kerrel,  304. 
Ker,  301. 
Keyes,  104,  117. 
Kincheloe.  201. 
Kincaid,  27. 
Kinder,  in. 

King.  I9r,  213,  291.  343,  403,  422. 
King's  Bench,  435. 
King  Charles,  347. 
King  George  county,  68,  73,  425, 

426,  427. 
King  James,  374. 
King's  Meadows,  12. 
Kempsville,  46,  49. 
King's  Mountain,    Battle  of,  7,  8, 

13,  121,  122,  324. 
King  and  Oueen  county,  47,  48,  94, 

398,  400. 
Kingstone,  93. 

King  William  county,  Va.,  419,  438. 
Kiligrew,  40. 
Kippax,  311. 


Kilpatrick,  422. 

Kinsey,  440. 

Kirckudbrigbt,  293. 

Kirkpatrick,  103. 

Kirk  wood.  Mo.,  437. 

Knave,  27. 

Knibb's  Creek,  97. 

Knott's  Island,  345,  346. 

Knowlton,  442. 

Knox,  245,  248,  253,  426. 

Knox,  Mrs.  SusANif a  Fitzhugh, 

half-tone   portrait,   April 

Magazine, 
Knox  county,  Ky.,  126. 
Knoxoman,  166. 
Koons,  87. 

Lade,  103. 

Lacy,  37. 

La  Fayette,  328,  313. 

Laird,  422. 

Lambert,  289. 

Lambkin,  305. 

Lamir,  105,  124. 

La  Motte,  288. 

Lancashire,  285. 

Lancaster,  64,  79,  418. 

Lancaster  county,   Va.,    126,   425, 

440. 
Lanier,  446. 
Land,  319. 
Land  Office,  440. 
Land  Patents,  Virginia,  69,  190, 

296.423,  etseg, 
Lane,  77,  326. 
Laney,  27. 
Langhom,  426. 
Lankford,  9,  i6. 
Langley,  361. 
Lanmay,  307. 
Lansdale,  27. 
Lanvollie,  103. 
Lasefield,  403. 
Latan^,  300,  311. 
Latil,  332. 
Laurel  Grove,  431. 
Lawrence  county,  Ala.,  446. 
Lawrence,  389. 
Laurens,  68,  445. 
I^wson,  3,  9,  27,  347,  348. 
La  Villan,  300. 
Lay  ton,  142. 
Laydon,  193. 
Leake,  27,  33,  95. 
Lear,  194. 
Leale,  40. 
Lee,  23,  27,  32,  79,  176,  185,  190,  228, 

282.  307.  317,  357,  422,  439- 


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Leeds,  Duke,  74. 

Lienster  county,  10 1. 

Leeper,  421. 

Leftwiche,  419. 

Leicester,  271. 

Leigh,  297. 

Leonard,  298. 

Lembtey,  213. 

Lemon,  27.  207. 

Lindsey,  27. 

Lentall,  192. 

Lepure,  312. 

Lesly,  326,  350. 

Le  War,  384. 

Lewd,  69. 

Lewis,  5,  27,  48,  107,  112,  122,  128, 

190,    207,   294.   295,   312,   313, 

393»4oi,  421,  422,  432. 
Lewis,  John,  Warner  Hall,  400. 
Lewisburg,  439. 
Leybum,  34. 
Lexington,  Ky.,  13. 
Liberty  Hall  Academy,  32. 
Lidderdale,  401. 
Light,  192. 

Lightfoot,  382,  393,  394,  397,  398. 
Lightfoot,   Mary,  Will,    1785,   399. 
Lightfoot,  John,  will  of,  1751,  398. 
LighthoUier,  190. 
Ligon,  446. 
Lightner,  27. 
Lillington,  356. 
Little,  27. 

Little  Bud  Creek,  80. 
Little  Carpenter,  114-115. 
Little  Gidding,  322. 
Littlepage,  421. 
Little  Paxton,  103. 
Little  Rock,  436. 
Lincon,  422. 
Lincoln,  13. 
Lincoln  county,  253. 
Lindsey,  27. 
Lipscomb,  104. 
Liverpool,  198,  410,  411. 
Loch  ran,  313. 
Lockhart,  27,  421. 
Lockridge,  27,  422. 
Locust  Grove,  323. 
Lodge,  433. 
Lodge  Quarter,  68. 
Logan,  8,  15,  16,  27,  245,  247. 
Logan's  Station,  6. 
Lomax,  27. 
London,  39,  73,   158,  188,  258,  268, 

433- 
London,  Bishop  of,  156. 


Long,  27,  73,  421,  438. 

Longfield,  20,  423. 

Longhunters,  The,  248,  et  seq^  249. 

Long  Island,  11 6-1 18. 

Longwood,  32. 

Lord,  309. 

Lord  Baltimore,  369. 

Lord  Delaware,  48. 

Lord  family,  note  on,  309,  396. 

Louisa,  82,  83,  252. 

Love,  421. 

Lovell,  27,  193,  326. 

Lower  Norfolk,  171. 

Lowder,  290,  293. 
I  Lowry,  99,   100,  440. 

Lucas,  27,  71,  312,  317. 
,  Ludwell,  Philip  (2d),  275,  278,  286, 

346,  352.  356,  393. 
;  Lundy's  Lane,  240. 

Luke,  197,  310. 
i  Lumberd,  442. 

Lunenburg,  208,  209. 

Luther,  7. 

Luscorvivas,  352. 

Lynchburg,  36.  414.  416. 

Lynch  Law  In   Albemarle 
County,  1748,  444. 
I  Lynch,  406. 
!  Lynhaven  Bay,  193,  235. 

Lymington,  433. 

Lyne,  424. 

Mackie,  358,  359,  361.  421. 

Mackie,  Rev.  Josias,  Presbyte- 
rian Minister,  Norfolk 
AND  Princess  Ann  Counties, 
Will  OF,  1716,  358,  363. 

Maclin,  446. 

Macon,  409,  411,  414. 

Mahon,  32. 

McAfee,  422. 

McAllister,  24,  30,  303. 
;  McBerry,  27. 

McBride,  422. 
i  McCabe,  78. 

!  McCarty,  56,  57,  6r,  63,  319,  427. 
!  McClanahan,  112. 
I  McClellan.  326. 

McClelland,  216,  228. 
I  McClelland  Family,  Note,  216. 
I  McClenachan,  28,  422. 

McClure,  28,  422. 

McCoy,  27. 

McCrary,  308. 

McRae,  14,  229,  240,  241. 
xMacray,  121,  122. 

McCrea,  5. 


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McCreery,  27,  422. 

McCutchern,  27,  28. 

McDaniel,  208. 

McDonald,  368. 

McDowell,  28,  214,  215,  216.  304, 

421. 
McDowell,  Death  of  Captain 

|oHN.  1742,  214. 
McDowell,  Capt.  Samuel,  216. 
McGaffock,  421. 
McGarry,  8,  15,  421. 
McGavock,  128,  436. 
McGehee,  446. 
McGiil,  421. 
McGloughlin,  27. 
McGrady,  307. 
McGregor,  60. 
McGuire,  28. 
Mcintosh,  27. 
McIIhany,  27. 
Mcllwaine,  77. 
McKay,  56,  63.  88,  319. 
McKim,  77. 
Mackenzie,  311. 
McKinnell,  290,  293. 
McKitrick,  28. 
McMahan,  216,  217,  421. 
McMilhany,  326. 
McNoe,  312. 
McMullen,  421. 
McMuiro.  105. 
McMurtry,  422. 
McNabb,  421. 
McNeel,  28. 
McPhail,  439,  440. 
McPherson,  28. 
Macqueen,  311. 
McVamanah,  66-68. 
Mc Williams,  28. 
Madden,  439. 
Madison,  27,  28,  33,  36,  85,  86,  130, 

189.  244,  253,  .s02.  428,  429,  439. 
Madison  county,  84. 
Madison  county,  Ky.,  204. 
Magdalen,  433. 
Maze,  421. 
Ma^ue,  345. 
Maitland,  72,  105. 
Malbone  '  Malborne),  348. 
Ma  lone,  326. 

Mallory,  27,  170,  171,  356. 
Malvern  Hill,  228,  332. 
Makemie,  172. 
Makester,  192. 
Mancelle,  439. 
Manchester,  418,  439. 
Manchester,  Duke  of,  187. 


I  Manderville,  40,  43,  127,  189. 
I  Man  DEVI  LLB,  Lord,  Letter  to 
Secretary    Conway,     1624, 

43. 

Manhattan,  413. 

Manikintown.  312,  339. 

Manning,  446. 

Mansell,  271. 

Mansfield,  27. 
i  Marbury,  426. 

Marable,  190. 

Marks,  190. 

Marlot,  46,  50. 

Marot.  208,  397. 

Marratico  Quarter,  66. 

Marriott,  314. 

Mark  ham,  69. 

Marlborough,  Earl  of,  377. 

Marsden,  311. 

Marshall,  32,  68,  85,  96,  100,  229, 
et  seq,  239. 

Marshalsea,  51. 

Marsham,  103. 

Marston,  311. 

Marston  or  Maston,  125. 

Martain,  2,  et  seq,  7,  9,  46,  49,  50, 
94,  118,  242,  244,  312. 
,  Martain's  Station,  8,  9,  90,  250,  et 

seq. 
I  Martin,   36,   70,   85,    108,   1 13-118, 
129,  132,  135,  136-  46,  i93»  203, 
268-275,  305,  306,  403,  404,  405, 
419. 

Martin,  Captain   John,  The 
I         Case  OF.     By  Alexander 
I         Brown,  LL.  D.,  268,  ei  seq. 
'  Martin,   General  Joseph,   113-118. 

Martin's  creek,  405. 

Martin's  Hundred,  365,  366. 

Martin's  Brandon,  146,  270,  272. 

Martin's  Brandon  parish,  211. 

Maryland,  12,  156,  426,  435. 

Maryland,    Emigration    from   Vir- 
I  ginia  to,  440. 

Mathewe,  379,  384,  420. 

Mathews,  27,  79,  129,  136-146,  164, 
184,  259,  268,  374,  421,  422. 

Matthews  Plantation,  365. 

Matiponv,  131. 

Maty  School,  395. 

Mashart,  377. 

Mason.  27,  90,  300,  319,  439. 

Massachusetts,  412,  413. 

Massacre  of  1622,  448. 

Massett,  423. 

Massey,  299. 
:  Massie,  202,  228,  301,  406. 


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Massie,  Letter  of  Dr.  Thomas, 

1813-14,  406  ei  seq. 
Masters,  160,  ei  seq. 
Maule,  311. 
Maurice,  191. 
Maury,  302,  446. 
Maury  county,  324. 
May,  105,  190,  312. 
Mayo,  72,  190,  315,  415,  426,  439. 
Mays,  208,  421. 
Maxwell,  3,  12. 
Maxwell  Town,  293. 
Meade,   33,  91,  93,   155,   213.  33^, 
Medcalfe  Place,  68. 
Meadows,  396. 
Meal,  365. 

Mecklenburg  county,  212. 
Meherrin,  2t»9,  340,  etseq. 
Meherrin  Indians,  337-358. 
Menzies,  302. 
Mercer,  313. 
Mercer  county,  90. 
Merchant's  Hope,  357. 
Meriwether,  27,  206. 
Merritt,  22. 
Merrillat,  436. 
Merry,  134. 
Michaux,  301. 
Michell,  80,  124. 
Mickleborough,  93,  94,  436. 
Middlesex  county,  17,  23,  91,  331, 

419. 
Middleton,  210,  321. 
Middle  Temple,  296. 
Mildendo.  102. 
Mildmay,  40. 
Militia,   11,  24,  125,  214,  228,  406, 

407,  409,  417,  419.  425,  431. 
Mills,  21,  65,  66,  67,  112,  192,  203, 

433- 
Miller,  295,  305,  421,  437- 
Milne,  312. 

Milner,  158,  343,  345.  349»  355- 
Milner,  Col.  Thomas,  355. 
Millner's,  349. 
Milsop,  90,  421. 
Minitree,  309,  440. 
Minton,  298. 
Mississippi,  9,  181. 
Mississippi,    Free    Navigation    of; 

Washington's  Opinion  of,  181. 
Missouri,  48. 
Mitchell,  76,  210,  402. 
Mobile,  127. 

Moffett,  27,  no,  421,  422. 
Mole,  40. 
Moncure,  300. 


I  Monk's  Neck,  342. 

I  Monroe,  27,  102,  180,  328,  429. 

!  Montgomery,  12,  127,  243,  252,  271, 

352. 
1  Montgomery  county,  Ky.,  48. 

Monk's  Neck  Creek,  341. 

Montague,  40,  272,  331,  430. 
,  Moody,  431. 

Moon,  102. 

Moon's  Place,  68. 

Moore.  27,  30,  213,  217,  311,  421, 
422,  423. 
,  Morecock,  1^2. 

Moorman's  river,  203. 

Monmouth,  313. 

Monmouth  county,  N.  J.,  disaffect- 
ed persons  in,  1780,  180. 

Morer,  40. 

Morgan,  27,  36,  70,  305,  306. 
,  Morris,  85,  422. 
!  Morristown,  431. 
I  Morrow,  27. 

Morton,  31,  32,  34,  208. 

Moryson,   85,    127,    156,    190,    194, 

439- 
'  Mosbv,  300. 
I  Moseley,  300,   301,   344.  345.   347. 

Moseley,  Edward,  of  North  Caro- 
;         hna,  356. 

Mott,  ^11. 

Mountioy,  56. 
I  Point  Pleasant,  iii. 
,  Mt.  Prospect,  411. 

Mt  Quarter,  68. 

Mt.  Vernon,  180,  184. 

Moyes,  193. 

Mugenbird,  27. 

Mulbury  Island,  366. 

Mullenburg,  27. 

Mumpses  fort,  118. 

Munford,  429,  430. 

Munro,  396. 

Murphy,  227,  422,  437. 

Murray,  331,  421. 

Murrill,  86. 

Nanden,  196. 

Nansemond  county,  170,  213,  338, 
et  seq. 

Nansemond  County,  Va.,  Ves- 
trymen OF  Upper  Parish  of, 
1760-1791,  212. 

Narroes,  68. 

Nashville,  15. 

Neale,  70,  196,  296. 

Neck  ot  Land,  366. 

Need  wood,  125,  126. 


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Negroes,  65,  68,  80,  81,  190,  192, 
193.  209,  304,  314,  318,  319,  364, 
445. 

Negroes  Sold  in  Virginia,  1628,  265, 
et  seq. 

Nelson,  28,  205,  312,  399,  415,  420. 

Nelson  county,  83,  84,  86,  204,  406. 

Neptune,  434. 

Nethersole,  Sir  Francis,  Let- 
ter TO  Sir  Dudley  Carle- 
ton,  1624,  39. 

Nethersole,  39. 

Neville  Family,  103,  104. 

Neville,  28,  103. 

Nevada,  203. 

N6vinson,  301. 

New  Castle,  175. 

New  Mill,  357. 

New  Eneland,  133,  412. 

Newland,  86. 

New  King's  river,  404. 

Newstead,  191. 

Newman,  28,  48. 

New  Albion,  296,  297. 

New  Orleans,  416. 

New  Market,  431. 

Newportes  Newes,  140,  366. 

Kew  Kent,  82,  87,  398,  409,  411, 
412. 

Newell,  8,  404. 

New  London,  9. 

New  York,  413, 435,  436. 

New  York  City,  9r. 

Newsom,  438. 

Newark,  50,  175. 

Newton.  44,  57,  103,  104.  190,  439. 

New  Jersey,  179. 

New  Windsor,  176. 

New  Norfolk,  192. 

Nicholson,  Governor,  Papers 
Relating  to  the  Adminis- 
tration OF,  AND  TO  THE 
Founding  of  William  and 
Mary  College,  153-172, 
275,  et  seq.,  386-401, 

Nicholson,  John  Thrale's  An- 
swer IN  Behalf  of,  386-390. 

Nicholson,  Governor  Francis,  De- 
fence of,  by  John  Thrale,  278, 
et  seq. 

Nicolson,   153,  172,   275,  286,  349, 

397- 
Nicholson,   Francis,    Governor    of 

Virginia,  Sketch  of,  154,  155. 
Nicholas,  227,  240,  241,  265. 
Nicholls,  23,  31  r,  362. 
Nickajact,  252. 


I  Nickoles,  7. 

Niemcock  Cryke,  21. 

Nimmo,  362. 

Noes,  193. 

Nollichuchy,  12. 

Nonyer,  422. 

Northumberland,   71,  73,  79,  419, 
I         420. 

I  Norfolk,  30,  193,  235,  358,  406,  411, 
I         416, 439- 

Norris,  305. 
I  North  Carolina  Convention,  14. 
■  North  Carolina  and  Virginia  Boun- 
'         dary    Line    Case,     1707-1711, 
I         337-358. 

North  Carohna,  Notice  of  Samuel 
Stephens,  Governor  of,  345. 

North  Carolina,  12,  13,  81,  123,  128, 
156,  252,  253,  308,  337.  358,  410. 

Norman's  Ford,  68. 

Northern  Neck,  236. 

Northampton,  194. 

Norfleet,  213. 

Norton,  37. 

Nottoway  Indians,  337-358. 

Nottaway,  77,  337,  etseq.,  342,  357. 

Notes  and  Queries,  10$,  et  seq., 
210,  et  seq.,  303,  et  seq.,  441, 
et  seq. 

Noyce,  192. 

Nutt,  192,  298. 

O' Bryan,  311. 
Obert,  17. 
Odom,  343. 
Oldis,  193,  296. 
Orr,  ^10. 

Office  Quarter,  66-68. 
Ogden,  28. 
Ogle,  311. 
Ohio,  9,  13,  182. 
Oldham,  103,  104,  422. 
Old  Poquson,  loi. 
Old  Ordinary,  68. 
Old  Quarter,  67. 
Old  Place,  66. 
Old  Church,  439. 
Old  Dominion,  429. 
Oliver,  306,  446. 
Olive  Hill,  439. 
O'Neal,  446. 

Orange,  4,  13,  25,  26,  28,  29,  108, 
126,    128,    176,    ao6,    398,   402, 

409.  4i9»  425. 
Orchard,  423. 
Orden,  68. 
Oriel  College,  283,  330. 


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Osborne,  57,  74,  190,  192,  301. 
Oswald,  300. 
Otiotan,  130. 
Owen,  310,  432. 
Owens,  48,  90. 
Owsley,  204. 
Overby,  105. 
Overton,  96,  430. 
Overseers,  65,  et  seq. 
Overstreet,  430. 
Oxfordshire,  196. 
Oxford,  68,  423,  425. 

Pace,  204. 

Paces  Paines,  365. 

Packett,  192,  193. 

Pagan  creek,  170. 

Page,  37,  158,  252,  279,  394,  446. 

Paget,  40. 

Palatine,  433. 

Palavacine,  40. 

Paleford,  266. 

Palmer,  40. 

Pamunkey,  28,  130,  131,   157,  366. 

.     438. 
Pantico  Quarter,  6S. 
Paper  Mill,  The,  from  Virginia 

Gazette,  1744,442,  et  seq. 
Parafine,  196. 
Pascall's  Neck,  297. 
Parish,  no. 
Parham,  105. 
Parker,   6,   28,  209,   212,   213,  239, 

292.  303.310,436,  441. 
Parks,  99,  442. 
Park  Quarter,  68. 
Parliament,  73. 
Parr,  195. 
Parrott,  21. 
Partin,  296. 

Patterson,  325,  334,  421,  422. 
Patillo,  31,  105. 
Palton,  III,  128,  421. 
Patrick,  28,  423. 
Pawchayicks,  340. 
Paul,  287,  et  seq. 
Pawnee  Sunday,  241. 
Patuxen,  131. 
Paxton,  217,  312. 
Payne  Family,  79,  200. 
Payne,  28,  79,  82,  86,  200,  330,  441. 
Peachey,  53,  57,  58.  64,  71,  72. 
Peace  Neck,  426. 
Peckman,  166. 
Peebles,  105,  326. 
Pepjram,  105. 
Peirce,  189. 


I  Pembroke,  271,  394. 

Pendleton,  28,  306,  327. 
^  Penkhome,  69. 
I  Penmond's  End,  68. 

Penn,  205,  418,  428. 
'  Pennsylvania  Battalion,  239. 
I  Pepper,  104. 

Peppett,  146. 
!  Perdue,  28. 
I  Perkins,  343. 

Perry,  93,  155,  164,  167,  173,  192. 

Persey,  130. 
,  Peters,  68. 

Petersburg,  Va.,  78,  437,  440. 

Peyton,  299,  436. 

Pickett,  305. 

Pierce,  46,  49. 

Piersey,  136,  146. 

Pierseys  Hundred,  366. 

Pilcher,  214. 
t  Peterson,  105. 

Pinckney,  445. 
!  Pitch  and  tar  making  in  Virginia, 
I  1628,  262. 

I  Pitman,  249,  250. 
I  Pitt,  303. 

Pittsburg.  Ill,  252,  328. 

Pittsylvania,  9,  30,  80,  200,  249,  404, 
419,  420. 

Plate,  199,  318,  319. 

Plate,  Bill  for  a  Service  of. 
1794,  186. 
I  Pleasants,  171,  300,  301. 
;  Point  Pleasant,  5,  12,  42i>. 

Poage,  28,  421,  422. 

Pratt,  69. 

Pocahontas,  353. 

Pockett,  241. 

Poellnitz,  446. 

Poin dexter,  439. 

Point  Comfort,  **  fort  field  "  at,  296, 
297. 
I  Pollard,  230,  241,407. 
,  Pollineton,  46,  49. 

Pollock,  79. 

Polmer,  192. 

Pountis,  135,  189. 

Poole,  193. 

Pooley,  434. 

Pope,  75,  103,  104,  138,  201. 

Popeley,  192. 

Poplar  Neck  Quarter,  66-68. 

Poplar  Quarter,  68. 

Porter,  89,  170,    171,  196,  305,  312, 
442. 
'  Port  Royal,  398. 
I  Port  Tobacco  creek,  95. 


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Port  Conway,  426. 

Porte  Crayon^  415. 

Porterfield.  28. 

Portsmouth,  163,  287,  419. 

Portraits,  317,  433,  435. 

Pory»  50. 

Posey,  40,  69,  422,  427. 

Potomac,  440. 

Potash  making  in  Virginia,   1628, 

181,  189,  262. 
Pott,  46,  49,  57,  131,  189,  259,  268, 

374,   378.   381,   382,    383,   384, 

385.  368,  369. 
Povey,  397. 
Powel's  river,  9,  405. 
Powel's  Valley,   8,   118,    119,   123, 

177,  192,  214,  250,  402,  440. 
Powhatan  county,  102,  125,  228. 
Poyer,  312. 
Poquoson,  193 
Poythress,  71,  72,  105,  190,  309,  436, 

438,  439. 
Poythress  Family,  71,  438. 
Pratt,  427. 
Pray,  293. 

Preachers  for  Virginia,  1629,  369. 
Preakness,  179,  180. 
Preen,  259. 
Presbytenanism  in  Princess  Anne 

and  Norfolk  counties,  Va.,  no. 


358-363. 
sle 


Presley,  104. 

Preston,  122,  127,  152,  327. 

Prestwould,  102. 

Pretchan,  311. 

Previe,  421. 

Price,  2,  69,  229,  241,  234,  240,  396, 

406,  424. 
Pride,  105,  430. 
Princess  Anne,  420. 
Prince  Edward,  30,  32,  35,  441. 
Prince  George,  47,  96,  190,  211,  227, 

.  309.  342,  354.  425.  439- 
Pnnce  William,   13,  25,  26,  68,  73, 

74,  202. 
Printers,  79,  183. 
Prior,  195,  297,  396. 
Privy    Council    to    Governor 

Harvey,    1630-31,   8,    18,   39, 

385,  et  seq. 
Pyanhatank,  21. 
Pryor,  31,  38,  75,  79,  206,  207,  209, 

325,  326,  4 '2,  414. 
Pryor  Family,  75,  206,  325. 
Publications  Received,  223,  224, 

335. 
Puckett,  422,  437. 


Pugh,  213. 

PuREFOY  Family,  100. 
Purser,  190. 
Pursey,  129,  136-146. 
Pursey  Hundred,  364. 
Purefoy,  99,  100. 
Purefye,  296. 
Putnam,  11. 

Philadelphia,  175,  407,  428. 
Philan,  446. 
Phillips,  193. 
Philips,  300. 

i  Quakers,  168,  170,  172. 
'  Quarles,  28,  331,  428. 

Quakers  in  Virginia,  Note  on,  168, 
172. 

Quarter  Court,  270. 
I  Quary,  389. 

Queen's  creek,  195. 
I  Queen  Mary  Port,  97. 

Quiberon,  288. 

Quineys,  357. 

Quisenbury,  306,  362,  363,  364. 

Quit  Rents,  156,  163,  164,  457. 

Rackoon  Spring,  246. 

Radford,  23. 

Rafferty,  422. 

Raleigh,  N.  C,  320,  437. 

Ralston,  421,  422. 

Ransford,  311. 

Ramapough,  178, 

Ramsev,  421. 

Randolph,  70,   102,  152,   171,    190^ 

241.  3 « 5.  331,332,430,436. 
Ransdale,  28,  306. 
Rannford,  318. 
Rangers,  127. 
Range  Quarter,  68. 
Rankin,  28. 
Rapdale,  105. 
Rapedan,  4. 
Rappahannock,  17,  95. 
Ransom,  210. 
Ravensden,  196. 
Ravensworth,  425. 
Rawles,  213. 
Rawlings,  423. 
Rawlinson,  310. 
Ray,  446. 
Raycock,  71. 
Reaburn,  422. 
Read,  30,  31,  32,  35,  36,  69,  94.  103, 

301. 
Rector,  104. 
Redd,  I,  113,  252.  401,  405. 


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469 


Red  Oak  Quarter,  68. 

Reed,  6,  421,  422. 

Reid,  33,  34,  36,  37,  72. 

Relieion,  92,  93,  no,  211,  212. 

Retsham,  192. 

Reviews,  Book,  The  Vestry  Book 
and  Register  of  Bristol  Parish, 
Virginia,  1720-1789,  105;  The 
Growth  of  the  Federal  Con- 
stitution. By  W.  M.  Meigs, 
333;  Word- Book  of  Virginia 
Folk-Speech.  By  B.  W.  Green, 
218;  Tne  South  Carolina  His- 
torical and  Genealogical  Mag-  j 
azine,  445;  Early  Settlers  of 
Alabama,  446;  History  of  the  ' 
German  Element  in  Virginia, 
447;  To  Have  and. to  Hold, 
447;  Genealogy  of  the  Kemper 
Family  in  the  United  States, 
448. 

Revolution,  3,  11,  12,  13,  16,  90, 
140,  168,  212,  254,  403.  418. 

Reynolds,  312,  423. 

Rhode  Island,  348. 

Rice,  33,  35,  78,  118. 

Rich,  40,  271. 

Richards,  28. 

Richardson,  28,  69,  446. 

Richland  Quarter,  68. 

Richmond  During  the  War  of 
1 81 2.  The  Vigilance  Commit- 
tee. Letters  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Massie,  225,  et  seq,  406,  et  seq. 

Richmond,  40,  101,  225,  227,  241, 
403,  406,  409,  414, 415,  4»7.  418, 
43^  432- 

Richmond  county,  52,  68. 

Richneck,  356,  357. 

Riddick,  212,  213. 

Rigeson,  298. 

Rigby,  69. 

Right,  192. 

Ringe,  207. 

Rinhart,  iii. 

Ritchie  Family,  Note  on,  240. 

Ritchie,  22Q,  235,  241,  415,  439.         ' 

Riscow,  278. 

Rison,  430. 

Rivers,  86,  105,  325. 

Roach,  28. 

Roane,  309. 

Roanoke,  30,  3S2,  349. 

RoBards  Family,  Note  on,  312, 
3»3»  442. 

Rob  Camp,  10,  402. 


Roberts,  326,  428. 

Robertson,  2,  11,  15,  28,  69,  71,  48, 

105,  236,  305. 
Robhins,  207.  ' 

Robins,  99,  213. 
Robinson,  17,  28,  58,  69,  94,   235, 

241,  293,  338,  422. 
Robinson,  3,  17,  23,  285. 
Rockingham,    13,    25,    26,    28,    29, 

303.419.  441. 

RoDEs  Family,  324. 

Rodes,  82,  87,  203,  325. 

Rodgers,  422. 

Redman.  296. 

Rogers,  87,  125,  298. 

Rolfe,  71,  137,  169,  341.  353. 

Roller,  432. 

Rollins,  85. 

Rolls  county,  86. 

Rolls,  Master  of,  271. 

Roscoe,  285,  286. 

Rose,  28,  318. 

Rose,  Mrs.  Ann  Fitzhugh,  half 
TONE  portrait,  ApHl  Maga- 
zine. 

Roscow  Family,  Note  on,  285. 

Ross,  104,  311. 

Rootes,  94. 

Rowonte,  342. 

Rowlett,  105. 

Roy,  28,  431. 

Royal  Commission,  39. 

Royall,  105. 

Rubsimen,  190,  439. 

Rucker,  28. 

Rudd,  310. 

kudulpn,  177. 

Ruflin,  210. 

Rumsby,  190. 

Russel,  3,  28,  123,  190,  306,  407, 
410,  422.  439- 

Rust,  435. 

Rutherford,  102,  175,  216,  293. 

Rycove  Fort,  3. 

Rye,  181. 

Ryland,  204. 

Sadler,  211. 

Sadlers,  357. 

Safford,  441. 

St.  Andrews  parish,  398. 

Sainsbury  Abstracts,  39,  40,    187, 

188,  189,  268,  401. 
Sainsbury's  Abstracts.     By 

Alexander  Brown,  LL.  D.,  187- 

189. 


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Sainsbury's    Abstracts.     The 

Case  of   Captain    Martin. 

By  Alexander  Brown,  268,  ei 

seq. 
St.  Anne's  parish,  319. 
St.  Bennett  Sherehog  Church,  74. 
St.  Claire,  104. 
St  Clair  Hotel,  241. 
St.  George  parish,  448. 
St  John's  Church,  102,  271,  272. 
St.  Julien,  289. 
St.  Louis,  126.  429. 
St.  Mary's,  276. 
St.  Paul's,  197. 
St.  Peter's  parish,  82. 
Salisbury,  316,  427. 
Salisbury,  Bishop  of,  162. 
Sallard,  67. 
Salley,  445- 

Salt  making  in  Virginia,  1628,  262. 
Salt  river,  8. 
Samuels,  207. 
Sampson,  312. 
Sana,  \2. 

Sanders,  81,  143,  194,  269,  298. 
Sanford,  59. 

Sanford,  Burr,  Epitaph,  212. 
Sanford,  Elizabeth,  Epitaph,  212. 
Sanford,  Jeremiah,  Epitaph,  212. 
Sanford,  Vincent,  Epitaph,  212. 
Sandy  Point,  225,  408,  435. 
Sandys,  46,  49,  129,  131,  136,  146, 

189,  259,  268,  273,  320,  433. 
Sapony  Creek,  351. 
Saunders,  125,  145,  311,  446. 
Sanderson,  347,  348. 
Savage,  28,  141,  I45.  »59- 
Savages,  129. 
Saylor's  Creek,  208. 
Sayers,  421. 
Scags,  249.  250. 
Schools,  19. 
Scott,  28,  31,  35,  77,  89,  105,   III, 

298,  300,  312,  320,  430,  435. 
Scott  county,  14. 
Scroop,  103. 
Shelton,  446. 
Schuricht,  447. 
Sea  well,  298. 
Seay,  33,  430. 
Seben,  68. 

Selden,  194,  411,  430. 
Seven  Islands,  208. 
Severe,  243. 
Sevier,  127. 
Shackley,  91,  92. 
Shackerley,  436,  438. 


Shady  Grove,  73. 

Sharley,  360. 

Shankland,  421. 

Shanklin,  422. 

Sharp.  28,  310. 

Sharpe,  iii,  311. 

Sharpes,  189. 

Sharpless,  135. 

Shaw,  329. 

Sheets,  362,  363. 

Sheffield,  271. 

Shields,  iii. 

Shelby.  2,  12,  121,  122,  124,  127. 

Shelbyville,  32. 

Shelton,  28,  326. 

Shenandoah,  15,  25,  26,  28,  29,  105, 
431,  432. 

Shepherd,  81,  311. 

Sheppy,  70. 

Shirley,  276,  359,  424. 

Shirley  Hundred,  130,  189. 

Sherrod,  446. 

Sherron,  266. 

Short,  59,  105. 

Shorter,  446. 

Shortridge.  293. 

Shurlock,  166,  277. 

Sibly,  67. 

Silkworm  house,  365. 

Sitlonboume,  93. 

Silver,  65-68. 

Simmons,  28. 

Simpkins,  192. 

Simpson,  305,  437. 

Singleton,  102,  193 

Sinkhole  battle,  405. 

Skaife,  312. 

Skien,  no. 

Skiffe,  365. 

Skillern,  28. 

Skinners  Company,  320. 

Skipwith,  102. 

Slate  Hill,  35. 

Slaughter,  28,  85,  426. 

Sloss,  326. 

Slaves,  64,  et.  seq.^  110.  303.  314. 

Slave,  Punishment  of,  for  Murder, 
Rockingham  count>%Va.,  1878, 
303. 

Slaves  (Negroes),  Management  of, 
in  1672.  314. 

Small  wood,  175. 

Smith.  Smyth,  3,  8,  13,  16,  28,  33. 
36,  40,  46,  47,  49,  57.  69,  79,  86, 
88,  129,  131,  136,  146,  189,  192, 
193,  197,  198.  204,  205,  225.  229, 
241,  259,  208,  271,  278,  298,  302, 


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304,  305,  306,  311,  324,  374,  393. 
398,  400,  404,  4»2,  421,  422,  437. 

Smith,  John  (of  Council),  400. 

Smith's  Clove,  431. 

Smith  Family  (Abingdon,  Glou.), 
400. 

Smith's  Fort,  192. 

Smith's  River,  249. 

Squire,  311. 

Soane,  355. 

Somers  Islands,  133,  134. 

Somerset,  400. 

Sommerton,  343. 

Sothell,  192. 

Southam  parish,  14,  240. 

Southampton,  51,  433 

Southampton,  Earl  of,  130. 

South  Key,  34^. 

Southampton  river,  139. 

Southeme,  144,  189. 

Southerlin,  28. 

South  walk  parish.  14,  347,  356. 

Society  for  the  History  of  the  Ger- 
mans in  Maryland,  447. 

South  Carolina,  104,  154,  308,  402, 
403. 

South  Carolina  Historical 
AND  Genealogical  Maga- 
zine, review,  445. 

South  Carolina  Historical  Society, 

445. 
Spaniards,  182. 
Span,  60. 
Spain,  169,  433. 
Spear.  240. 
Speed,  398.  446 

Spencer,  28,  29,  73,  I97,  198.  3H' 
Spotswood,   9,  28,    loi,    155,   306, 

356,  448. 
Spotsylvania  county,  Va.,  11,  27, 68, 

83,  400,  425,  448. 
Springer,  33. 
Springfield,  Ills.,  437. 
Spur  way,  193. 
Stafford,  40,  68,  73,  87,  88,  198, 299, 

425. 
Stafford  militia,  199. 
Stallinge,  139,  145. 
Stanard,  69,  190,  296,  330,  331. 
Stank,  293. 
Stanley,  355. 
Stanley  Hundred,  286. 
Starke,  105. 
Starkey,  321. 
Staunton,  127,  414,  421. 
Stead,  321. 
Steele,  28. 


Steriing,  33. 

Stephen,  46. 

Stephens,  28,  193,  345,  346,  384. 419- 

Stephens,    Samuel,    Governor    of 

North  Carolina,  345. 
Stevens,  49,  403. 
Stevenson,  42,  102,  422. 
Stewart,  203,  301,  422. 
Sleelton,  321. 

Stith,  105,  353,  437,  e^se^,  438. 
Stockton,  404. 
Stockades,  9. 
Stogland,  404. 
Stokes,  96,  355,  429. 
Stone,  85,  298. 
Stoner,  300. 
Stony  Point,  176,  239. 
Stubblefield,  28,  29. 
Stubbs,  192. 
Stump,  28. 
Stuart,  16,  28,  73,  75,  202,  272,  299, 

311,  422,  425,  426. 
Strachan,  105. 
Strachey,  400. 
Stratton  Major  Parish,  94. 
Strawberry  Banks,  296. 
Strayer,  204. 
Streator,  213. 
Strickland,  210. 
Strieker,  28,  326. 
Strickler,  108. 
Strother,  207. 
Styles,  40. 
Suckling,  40,  42. 
Summons,  28. 

Sullivan.  12,  14,  66,  195,  208. 
Sumerton,  170. 
Sumner  21^. 
Sunderland  Cryke,  21. 
Sumpter,  5,  13,  243,  402,  403. 
Sutcliff,  40. 
Sutherland,  302. 
Surry  county,  Va.,  14,  155,  192,  211, 

3«4,  357. 
Surry  Co.  Ho.,  N.  C,  402. 
Swan  (Swann),  58,  102,  192,  340. 
Swearinger,  28. 
Swift  Creek,  70. 
Swoope,  446. 
Sydney,  271. 
Sydnor,  68. 
Synbee,  193. 
Sykes,  87. 

Tabb,  96,  97,  100,  148,  426,  431,  432. 
Tackett,  29 
Tazewell,  102. 


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Tait,  30,  446. 

Talbott,  105. 

Talboys,  103. 

Talley,  105. 

Taliaferro,  29,  300,  427,  446. 

Tamshaw.  40. 

Tam worth,  432. 

Tandy,  207. 

Tappahannock,  240. 

Tarlton,  14,  118. 

Tarpley,  58,  59. 

Tarrent,  300. 

Tarry,  96,  97. 

Tate,  29,  229,  240,  241. 

Talum,  105. 

Tareett,  365. 

Tayloe,  50,  58.  76.  125,  126,  210,  287, 

290,  293,  295,  305,  325,  354.  422, 

430. 
Taverns,  112. 
Tavemer,  58,  90. 
Tawarra,  351. 
Teese,  422. 
Temple.  29,  433. 
Tempsford,  196. 
Tennant,  312. 

Tennessee,  11,  12,  15, 81,83,  86,  253. 
Thacker,  22,  23,  94. 
The  Byrd,  294,  295. 
The  Maine.  366. 
Thorpe,  298. 
Tonontora,  351. 
Thilman,  22 
Thomas,  69,  70,  169,  204,  307,  311, 

325,  425,  432- 
Thrale,  278,  391. 
Thrailkild,  59,  68. 
Three  Creeks  Mill  Quarter,  357. 
Thompson,  29,  71,  81,  85,  301,  421, 

422,  446. 
Thomberry,  29. 
Thomhill,  90. 
Thornton,  56,  59,  76,  77,  90,  202, 

30  •»  399.  426,  427. 
Thruston,  47,  104,  360. 
Throckmorton,  103,  431. 
Thoroughgood,  193. 
Thumian,  204. 
Thweatt,  105,  342,  354. 
Tenison,  99. 
Terrell,  93. 
Texas,  90. 
Tibbs,  311. 
Tillyard,  311. 
Til^hman,  73. 
Tillman,  446. 
Timberlake,  79. 


Tindall,  369. 

Tiney,  John,  Epitaph,  211. 

Tin  well,  190. 

Tipton,  204. 

Tirrey,  211. 

Tiverton,  73. 

Tobacco,   Cessation   of    Planting, 

3'7 
Tobacco,  18,  44,  121,  134,  135,  258, 

265,  267,  268,  365,  373,  375,  406, 

409,  4i4.4i5»  418. 
Todd,  33,  85,  300. 
To  Have  and  to  Hold,  review, 

447. 
Tompkins,  195,  227. 
Tooker,    Mrs.    Dorothy,    epitaph, 

211. 
Tool,  68. 
Toles,  29. 

Tories  in  Western  Virginia,  6,  7. 
Torys,  6,  123,  403 
Tosh,  29. 
Totnes,  194. 
Totuskey  Quarter,  67. 
Tonnatorah,  341,  et  seg.,  342. 
Towers,  69 
Town,  418. 
Townes,  4  p. 
Townsend,  167.  297. 
Trading  creek,  9. 
Traylor,  105. 
Tramor,  205. 
Travis,  102. 
Travers,  299. 
Traverse,  58. 
Traqueer,  293. 
Treasurer's  Plantation,  365. 
Tredway,  30,  36. 
Trencher,  190. 
Trent,  225. 
Trig,  244. 

Triggs  Station.  253. 
Trimble,  29,  1 11,  422. 
Trimble  county,  Ky.,  206. 
Triplett,  306. 
Try.  252. 
Trokes,  292. 
Trotter,  16,  86,  422. 
Truro,  73. 
Tucker,   29,  46,  49,   102,  105,  140, 

•89.  «99.  259.  268,  377. 
Tulling,  9. 
Turberville,  318. 
Turkey  Island,  102,  331. 
Turkey  Merchant,  366. 
Turkey  run,  425. 
Turner,  69,  307. 


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Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  205. 

Tuskaruro,  346,  348,  350. 

Tutt,  302. 

Tyler,  27,  34,  36,  48,  76,  190,  438. 

Upsal,  103. 
Utie,  36,  50,  384. 
Underwood,  59,  305. 
Unote,  341. 
Upper  Brandon,  240. 
Upshur,  48. 
Urquhart,  311,  446. 
Urmston,  312. 

Valentine,  436. 

Valley  Forge,  431. 

Vance,  29. 

Van  Lear,  422. 

Vandalia,  328. 

Vankirke,  193. 

Varina,  332,  423. 

Vamer,  422. 

Vassall,  266. 

Vaughan,  195,  312. 

Vauna,  69. 

Vaux,  428. 

Vawter,  300. 

Vedder,  437. 

Venable,  30,  et  seq.,  32.  32,  35,  37, 

301. 
Ventress,  437. 
Vestil,  29. 
Vigilance  Committee.  The, 

Richmond  during  the  War  of 

1811,  225,  et  seq. 
Vines,  441. 
Vine  planting  in  Virginia,  1628,  262, 

365. 

Virginia  in  1624-25,  Abstracts 
from  British  Public  Record 
Office,  129-146. 

Virginia.  Answers  to  Har- 
vey's Propositions  Touch- 
ing, 1629,  371,  et  seq, 

Virginia,  Assembly  of,  142,  369. 

Virginia  Census,  1624-25,  364- 
367,  381. 

Virginia,  Clergy  ordained  and 
licensed  tor,  1669-17 10,  310, 
et  seq. 

Virginia,  Colonial,  Books  in, 
29^,  et  seq. 

Virginia  Colony,  435. 

Virginia  Company,    130,   131,   132, 

432*  433. 
Virginia,  Condition  of,  in  1630,  376. 
Virginia,  Com  harvest  in,  1624,  131. 


Virginia,  Council  of,  commis- 
sioned, August  26,   1624,   129. 

Virginia,  Council  of,  373,  384,  393, 
396,  445- 

Virginia  during  Nicholson's 
Administration,  Papers  Re- 
lating TO,  275,  et  seo. 

Virginia,  Fines  imposed  by  courts 
of,  1629,  372. 

Virginia,  Flax  made  in,  1684,  284. 

Virginia  forces  surrendered  at 
Charleston,  S.  C,  1780,  306, 
et  seq. 

Virginia  Game  and  Field 
Sports,  1739,  172-174. 

yirginia  Gazette^  438,  442. 

Virginia,  Germans  in,  447,  448. 

Virginia,  Governor  of.  Memo- 
rial, 1629,  375. 

Virginia  Historical  Society, 
Proceedings,  Annual  Meeting, 
December  30,  1899.  January 
magazine. 

Virginia  Historical  Society, 
List  of  Officers;  and  Members. 
January,  1900,  January  maga- 
zine. 

Virginia,  Indians  of  Southern, 
1650-171 1,  337-338. 

Virginia,  Iron  Works  in,  376,  381. 

Virginia,  The  Kin^  to  the  Govern- 
or and  Council  of,  September 
22,  1628,  267. 

Virginia  Land  Patents,  Ab- 
stracts of,  69,  190-195.  423. 

Virginia,  letters  of  Governor, 
Council  and  Burgesses  of,  to 
the  King,  1628,  260 

Virginia,  Answer  of  Governor, 
Council  and  Burgesses  to  the 
King,  1628,  261. 

Virginia,  a  letter  regarding,  to  be 
obtained  from  the  King,  1628, 
266. 

Virginia,  letter  of  Governor,  &c., 
to  the  Earl  of  Dorset,  1628, 
264. 

Virginia,  Massacre  of  1622,  in,  143 

Virginia  Militia  in  the  Revo- 
lution, 24,  146,  254,  et  seq^ 
418,  etseq. 

Virginia  and  North  Carolina  Boun- 
dary Line  Case,  1707-1711,242, 

337-358 
Virginia,  New  Government 

FOR,  1624,  38,  et  seq. 
Virginia,  Petition  of  Govern- 


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THE  King,  1624,  45. 
Virginia,  Petition  of  Governor,  &c., 

to  the  Privy  Council,  1628,  263. 
Virginia,  pitch  and  tar  making  in,  , 

1628,  262.  I 

Virginia,  population  of,  in  1628,  262.  ' 
Virginia,   Potash  making  in,  1628,  ' 

262. 
Virginia,  preachers  in,  1629,  369.      \ 
Virginia,  Presbyterians  in  Norfolk 

and  Princess  Anne  counties  in, 

1716,358-363.  ! 

Virginia,  Propositions  Toich- 
ING,  1629.  By  Harvey,  369,  e/ 
seq.  I 

Virginia,  Proclamation  of  i 
Charles   I,  in   Regard  to, 
132.  ' 

Virgmia,  Quakers  m,  note  on,  168- 
172. 

Virginia,  Reminiscenses  of' 
Western,  1770-1790.  By  John  ' 
Redd,   I,  et  seq.,   113  et  seq., 
24  2  et  seq . ,  40 1  -405.  1 

Virginia.  Rights  of  Planters  in, 
confirmed  by  the   King,   133-  j 

134. 
Virginia,   Royal    Commission, 

FOR   Government  of,  1624, 

39,  et  seq,  44. 
Virginia,  salt  making  in,  1628,  263. 
Virginia  settlers  in  North  Alabama,  | 

446. 
Virginia  State  line,  26 
Virginia   in    1628,   State  papers, 

2^S,etseq.  I 

Virginia,   titles  to  lands   in,   J629,  | 

369. 
Virgmia  troops  in  Revolution,  first 

regiment  of,   1780,  306,  et  seq, 

307. 
Virginia,  war  with  Indians  in,  1624. 
Wackert,  29. 
Wade,  29. 

Waddell,  13,  14,  106,  112,  127. 
Waddington,  192. 
Wadlands,  194. 
Waggner,  311. 
Wakefield,  155,  357. 
Wakelin,  100. 
Walbank,  310. 
Walden,  85,  249. 
Walden  creek,  9,  402,  405. 
Wales,  435. 
Walker,  8,  9,  16,  29,  68,  77,  78,  94,  ' 


216,  217,  242,  243,  252,  300,  310, 

316,  356,  401,  423,  437,  445. 
Walker;  Wm.,   **The  Filibuster," 

Note  on  Family  of,  316. 
Wallace,  31,  33,   29,  217,   312,  382, 

421. 
Waller,  83,  190,  210,  302,  406,  419. 
Walters,  190. 
Walton,  76. 

Walthall,  105,  430,  446. 
Walnut  Hill,  86. 
Wanless,  29. 

Ward,  136,  190,  191,  422,  423. 
Ware,  79. 

Ware  parish,  75,  79. 
Waring,  59. 

Warm  Springs,  24,  30,  303 
Warner,  19,  34,  192,  400,  401. 
Warner  Hall,  29,  295,  400,  401. 
Warr,  29. 
Warren,  407. 
W^arren  county,  12. 
Warrener,  69,  311. 
Warreny,  423. 
WarriscoyacK,  364,  366. 
Warsaw,  52. 
Warwick,  29.  50,  51,  189,   271,  285, 

422. 
Warwick,  Character  of  Earl  of,  51. 
Warwick,  Earl  of.  Letter  to 

Secretary  Conway,  1624,  50. 
Watkins,  4,  30,  32,  34,  35,  36,  37,  46, 

50,  86,  266,  310,  446. 
Washington,    11,    12,    14,    94, 

121,    127,    175,    183,    185,   200, 

202,    215,    287,   308,   327,   403, 

416,  417,  419,  426. 
Washington  county  militia,  12. 
Washington  parish,  201. 
Washington  tavern,  229,  241. 
Washington  and  Lee  University,  32. 
Watauga  Settlement,  12,  14. 
Watkin's  Place,  36. 
Watson,  no,  302. 
Waugh,  29,  299,  300,  427. 
Waxhaw,  14. 

Webb,  59,  60,  63,  64,  66,  431,  446. 
Weeks,  168,  170,  171. 
Weitzel,  29. 
Welch,  29.  190,  300. 
Weeden,  446. 
Well,  29. 

Wells,  71,  76,  446. 
Wells  (or  Wills),  77. 
Wellington,  414. 
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Council  of  Virginia,  letter  to 
Sir  Robert  Heath,  258-59. 
West,  46,  48,  66,  89,  131,  136,  146, 
188,   189,    227,    268,    271,   377, 

378,  384. 
West  and  Shirley  Hundred,  366. 
Westcote,  194. 
Wested,  298. 
Westerly,  423. 
West  India,  412. 
Westham,  414. 
West  Hundred,  189. 
Westmoreland,   68,   103,   199,  318. 

412,  435. 
West  Point,  177. 
Weston,  42,  272. 
Westover,  231,  438. 
Westwood.  192. 
Wexford,  loi. 
Weaver.  320. 

Weyanoke  Indians,  337,  358. 
Whaley.  68. 
Whately,  310. 
W harry,  35. 
Wheat.  181. 
Wheeler,  13. 
Wheles  437. 
Whitaker,  46,  49,  137,  189,  260,  268. 

421. 
Whitaker,  Rev.  Alex.,  137. 
Whitby,  439. 
White.  29,  34.  40,  68,  193,  217.  298, 

306.  310,  316.  349.  421.  446. 
Whitehaven.  England,  91. 
White  Sulphur  Springs.  438. 
Whitlock.  29. 
Whitehall,  272,  325,  396. 
Whitsitt,  32. 
Whiting.  71. 
Whittington.  74. 
Wiccamoc.  347. 
Wicocon,  337,  et  seq. 
Wilbram,  321. 
Wilcocks,  189. 
Wilcox  60,  68,  72. 
Wilderness  Battle,  438. 
Wiley,  33. 

Willis,  Mrs.  Lucy,  epitaph,  212. 
Williams,  29,  69,  125,  183,  191,  200, 

217.  224,  234.  245.  248,  272. 
Williamson,  290  293,  298. 
Williamsburg,  48.  49,  195,  214,  241, 

.^05,  318,  368.  40  f,  406. 
William  and  Mary  College,  34.  90, 

9f,  92.  93,   108,   J53,  356,  391, 

362.  393.  400. 
William  and    Mary    College, 


I         Papers  Relating  to  Found- 
:         iNG  OF.  153,  172,  275,  etsfq, 
\  William   and    Mary   College. 
Papers    Relating    to    the 
,         Founding  of,  and  the  Ad- 
ministration OF  Governor 
Nicholson  386  401. 
I  William    and    Mary    College, 
Several    Sources    of   the 
Odium  and  Discouragement 
OF,  1704,  ,9',  et  seq. 
I  William  <2f  Mary  Quarterly,  303, 
!  398,  401,  427,  438,  442. 

Willis,  29.  92,  212,  302. 
Wills:  Christopher  Robinson  (17), 
Josias    Payne    (80),     Richard 
Booker    (97),    Charles    Lewis 
,  (204),  Rev.  Josias  Mackie  (358), 

I         Jonn    Lightfoot    (398),    Mar>' 
Lightfoot  (399)- 
Wilmer,  426. 
Wilmington,  175. 
j  Wilmore,  40. 
I  Wilmot,  166,  167. 
!  Wilson,  29,  31,  no,  241,  277,  306, 
I         310,  421,  422,  431,  441. 
i  Winboume,  213. 
I  Winchester,  445. 
I  W  incoop,  29. 
I  Windsor,  74. 
!  Windsor  Castle,  268. 
Windsor  Lodge,  426. 
Winfree,  430. 
I  Winifret,  195. 
I  Winn,  89. 
!  Winston,  30,  10 r,  124,  212,  419,  426, 

450- 
I  Winter,  203. 

I  Winston,  Ann  Austin,  Epitaph,  212. 
I  Winterham,  96.  209. 

Wirt,  10?,  227,  229,  240,  241. 

Wisconsin  Historical  Society,  401. 
.  Wishard,  358.  359. 

Witcher,  2,  it. 

Withers  Family,  87,  et  seq. 

Willoughby,  309,  347,  384. 
,  Wilshire,  298. 

Wocken,  302. 

Worsham,  35,  105,  322. 

Wolcott,  196. 
j  Wolstenholme,  40,  381. 

Wolton,  311. 
1  Worcester,  Bishop  of,  162. 
I  Woodruff,  205. 
I  Witherspoon,  33. 
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218-222. 
Womack,  6,  14. 
Wormeley,  94,  276,  283,  "585,  286, 

wr  394,395,398. 
Worth,  Fort,  437. 
Wood,  29,  38,    102,   125,  192,  206, 

295»  301,  3",  321.  436. 
Woodard,  210. 
Wood  bey,  203. 
Woodbndge,  60. 
Woodend,  197. 
Woodford,  yis,  307,  308. 
Woodhouse,  360. 
Woodliffe,  72. 
Woodnet,  321. 
Woodruff,  29. 
Woods,  84,  85,  204,  422. 
Woods  river,  8. 
Woodson,  29,  79,  313,  430. 
Woodward,  302. 
Woodsgap,  8. 
Wood  worth,  320,  321,  322. 
Wrench,  183. 
Wrinker,  27,  29. 
Wright,  39,  190,  448. 
Wrote,  40. 
Wroth,  40. 


I  WvATT,  Francis,  Commission  as 
I         Governor  of   Virginia, 

1624,  129. 
Wyatt,  29.  38,  46,  47.  48.  52.  105, 
129,  130,  131,  134,  136,  140,  189. 
268,  273,  275,  447. 
Wyanoak,  337,  et  seq, 
Wyche,  398. 
Wycocoons,  352. 
'  Wytheville,  30. 
Wynn,  89,  105,  341,  342,  353. 

I  Yadkin  river,  123. 
I  Yancey,  204,  205. 
Yates  Family,  77,  91,  311,  330, 
331,  332,  436.  et  seq,  437.  446. 
I  Yeardley,  46,  48,  50,  51,  129,  131, 

132,  136.  146,  189,  274. 
I  Yellow  creek,  126,  405. 
Yeo,  196,  193. 
I  York  county,  170,  401. 
I  Yorkshire,  17.  320. 
York  river,  195. 
Yofktown,  122. 

1  Young,  29,  67,  180.  207,  293,  300, 
311,  421,  422,446. 

Zanesville,  Ohio,  325. 
Zante,  74. 


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Discourse  of  the  London  Company  on  its  administration  of  Virginia  affairs,  1607-1624; 
Abstracts  of  Colonial  Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virginia  Land  Office,  beginning  in  1624, 
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year  1894.  and  the  following  list  of  articles  copied  from  the  original  documents :  Report 
of  Governor  and  Council  on  the  Condition  of  Affiiirs  in  Virginia  in  1636 ;  Abstracts  of  Col- 
onial Patents  in  the  Register  of  the  Virginia  Land  Office,  with  full  genealogical  notes  and 
extended  genealogies  of  the  Fleet.  Robins  and  Thoroughgood  Families ;  Reports  of  Griev- 
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CustJs  and  his  wife ;  A  Perswasive  to  Towns  and  Cohabitation  by  Rev.  Francis  Mackemie 
170s;  Abstracts  of  Virginia  Land  Patents  for  1655-6;  Army  Supplies  In  the  Revolution, 
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WM.  ARMSTRONG  CROZIER,  B  A.L.Th. 

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The  Lower  Norfolk  County  Virginia  Antiquary* 

CONTENTS  OF  VOLUME  IL  ^^gk. 

Property  Owners,  Princess  Anne  County,  i860 i 

Norfolk  Aldermen  and  the  Human  Rights  and  the  Emandpator. ..  ii 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County 11  / 

Marriages  Solemnized  by  the  Rev'd  Anthony  Walke 17 

My  Mother 24 

Lower  Norfolk  County  Libraries 33 

Price  of  Pork  in  1780 36 

Swiss  Settlers 37 

Abstracts  from  Norfolk  Marriage  Bonds 39 

Carriage  Owners,  Princess  Anne  County,  1859 4' 

Abstracts  from  Norfolk  Marriage  Bonds 46 

Captain  William  Carver 4S 

A  List  of  Marriages  Solemnized  by  the  Rev'd  Anthony  Walke. ...  50 

My  Mother 56 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County % 61 

Property  Owners,  Princess  Anne  County,  i860 64 

A  Tailor's  Bill.  1795     69 

For  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution 69 

Marriages  Performed  by  the  Rev'd  Joshua  Lawrence 71 

Taxable  Property  in  Norfolk  County  in  1784 74 

Marriages  Performed  by  the  Revs.  Wm.  Morriss  and  James  Dawley»  75 

My  Mother 79 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County 83 

Grace  Sherwood,  Virginia  Witch 88 

Abstracts  from  Norfolk  Marriage  Bonds 94 

Property  Owners,  Norfolk  County,  i860 , 95 

A  Doctors  Bill,  1772 98 

Harp  and  Piano  Owners,  Portsmouth.  1855 98 

Marriages  Performed  by  the  Rev*d  Wm.  Dawley 100 

Norfolk  Theatres  of  the  Olden  Time 102 

Marriages  Performed  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Henley 103    • 

Books  for  Sale 107 

Property  Owners.  Norfolk  County,  i860 109 

Baptist  Church,  Princess  Anne  County,  1764 j  13 

Abstracts  from  Norfolk  Marriage  Bonds.  1798 116 

The  Church  in  Lower  Norfolk  County 120 

Marriages  Performed  by  the  Rev.  William  Dawley 1 29 

My  Mother 132 

Sewing  Bill,  1774 13a 

Grace  Sherwood,  the  Virginia  Witch 139 

A  wagon  for  the  Army 142 

Education 142 

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